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Film: THE GREAT BOOK ROBBERY
Next Screening: Sunday 8 February 2015 Screening, 10.20 for 11am THE GREAT BOOK ROBBERY Benny Brunner, Netherlands 2012 [12], Hebrew/Arabic with EST, 57 mins 70,000 Palestinian books were systematically ‘collected’ by the newborn state of Israel during the 1948 war. The story of the books is at the heart of this film. Was the appropriation of […]
Films: Wadjda and YPJ Kurdish Female Fighters: A Day in Syria
Wadjda, the first film made by a female Saudi filmmaker, is the story of a spirited young girl living in a suburb of Riyadh. Wadjda (Waad Mohammed) is determined to buy a bike so she can race against her friend Abdullah. But in conservative Riyadh we are told, girls do not ride bikes; they are […]
Author: Jen Izaakson \ Film \ Review
Review: Nightcrawler, a fantastic rendering of capitalism
by Jen Izaakson The Nightcrawler works as a contemporary insight into working conditions in the post-economic crisis West, one still reeling from the 2008 crash. Lou Bloom (Jake Gyellenhaal) relentlessly embodies all that is alienating about contemporary life. Lou casts a hollowed out figure onscreen, representing different positions within capitalist employment, shifting from lumpen criminal, […]
Film \ History \ London Socialist Historians \ Meeting \ Miners' strike
The Great 1984/5 miners strike, why a film? Why now?
Seminars are in the Olga Crisp Room [104] at the Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Malet St, London, WC1 . Free without ticket
anarchists \ feminism \ Film
Revolutionary Women’s Film Night
In support of Afem 2014 (details here : http://afem2014.wordpress.com/) and Food Not Bombs – London, SASS is hosting a night of films about revolutionary women and feminist movements!
Author: Jim Jepps \ Film \ LGBT \ Miners' strike \ Pride \ Review \ trade unions
Review: Pride – a brilliant, feel good story
Review of Pride, out today, by Jim Jepps. For people of my generation The Miners’ Strike of 1984 was a defining moment. For good and ill, it shaped our ideas and beliefs about this country for decades to come. Just like the movement against the Iraq war it was not only a set of events that […]
Film \ LGBT \ Pride \ Trailer \ Video
“Pride” trailer – release date 12th Sept
Pride is a film set in the Miners’ Strike telling the true story of the Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners group who fought prejudice and the class the struggle. Having been to a preview screening I can tell you that I pretty much cried from the beginning to the end of this film. Not […]
Film: Hidden Colors 3: The Rules of Racism 8th August
Hidden Colors 3: The Rules of Racism (Tottenham, North London) Black History Studies Limited Friday, 8 August from 7 pm Cost £7 (can book via eventbrite) ‘Hidden Colors 3: The Rules Of Racism’ is the third instalment of the critically acclaimed documentary series Hidden Colors 1 and 2. To purchase Hidden Colors 1 and 2, […]
Film \ Haringey \ Haringey Independent Cinema \ War
Film: King and Country 31st July
HIC is a not-for-profit community film club organised and run by Haringey residents. It’s usually held on the last Thursday of the month at West Green Learning Centre on West Green Road. Doors open at 7pm. Everyone welcome! Haringey Independent Cinema presents… King and Country As with several British films made in the realist period of the […]
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