One of the great European “auteurs”, Jiři Menzel, has died aged 82. He is one of the last of a generation of film directors the likes of which will never be seen again.
Dupont is such a big employer in down-at-heel West Virginia that many locals were more fearful for their immediate livelihoods if it were damaged than of the risk of cancers and other health problems caused by the contaminated water in their area.
Welsh journalist Gareth Jones travelled to the Soviet Union in the early 1930s to investigate the success of Stalin’s five-year plan. Instead, he uncovered a mass operation of fake news generated by journalists, and in Ukraine witnessed a man-made famine which killed millions.
Review of 'Beanpole', a film about how a million Russian women sacrificed everything on the front during World War Two, only to be greeted at home with hollow praise and to return to life under an authoritarian bureaucracy.
Quentin Tarantino’s latest film, a semi-fictionalisation of events around Charles Manson’s Family’s murder of Sharon Tate and her associates in 1969, captures the feel of late 60s Los Angeles very well.
The Nightcleaners, a documentary about the struggle to organise women office cleaners in 1970-72, has many resonances today when organising cleaners and other low-paid, insecure workers is again a central task for the unions.
A review of The Good Soldier Schwejk (and His Fortunes in the World War) by Jaroslav Hasek, adapted and directed by Christine Edzard, Sands Films, 2017.
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