Leila and the Wolves.From Dhofar to Vietnam, passing by Lebanon, Palestine, and Egypt, I always found myself siding with the David of the moment against the Goliath of circumstance. My loyalty is always with the oppressed. —Heiny SrourHeiny Srour’s Leila and the Wolves (1984) is a film of monumental resolve and ambition, determined to address the contradictions within the anti-colonial struggle. It tells the forgotten and repressed stories of Arab women throughout the 20th century, fighting against British and Zionist colonialism, but also against male chauvinism, whether at home or on the battlefield. With a single actress playing multiple characters in different historical moments, the film dispenses with teleological linearity to emphasize the recurrence of oppression and the consequent need for constant and multifarious opposition. Born into a Lebanese Jewish family whose extended members were also Muslim, Protestant, and Catholic, Srour rejected from an early age the social hypnosis...
- 5/16/2024
- MUBI
New Amazon Prime Video series “Los Farad,” released Dec. 12, takes a look at the Cold War from one of its strangest geo-political hubs, 1980s Málaga. The action-packed show follows a family that is normal in many ways, despite earning a luxurious living as arms traffickers.
Part of a determinedly diverse and burgeoning lineup at Spain’s Prime Video, “Los Farad” is a high-profile prestige package starring Miguel Herrán – who plays Rio in “Money Heist” and Cristián in “Elite” – and the on-the-rise Susana Abaitúa, who delivered a tearaway performance in Netflix rom-com “Crazy About Her.”
Co-created by Alejandro Aménabar co-scribe Alejandro Hernández, “Los Farad” is directed by Mariano Barroso in his fifth collaboration with Hernández.
Emerging as one of Spain’s most notable drama series directors in an age of premium fiction, Barroso has extracted terrific, nuanced performances in series set in Spain’s recent past, such as “The Invisible Line” and “What the Future Holds.
Part of a determinedly diverse and burgeoning lineup at Spain’s Prime Video, “Los Farad” is a high-profile prestige package starring Miguel Herrán – who plays Rio in “Money Heist” and Cristián in “Elite” – and the on-the-rise Susana Abaitúa, who delivered a tearaway performance in Netflix rom-com “Crazy About Her.”
Co-created by Alejandro Aménabar co-scribe Alejandro Hernández, “Los Farad” is directed by Mariano Barroso in his fifth collaboration with Hernández.
Emerging as one of Spain’s most notable drama series directors in an age of premium fiction, Barroso has extracted terrific, nuanced performances in series set in Spain’s recent past, such as “The Invisible Line” and “What the Future Holds.
- 12/13/2023
- by Pablo Sandoval
- Variety Film + TV
The latest in a never-ending series of propaganda movies from mainland China, Manifesto is an account of the life and times of Chen Wangdao, the translator and scholar who completed in 1920 China’s first translation of “The Communist Manifesto” by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Chen undertook this life-changing task when he returned from his studies in Japan. Chen Duxiu, Yu Xiusong, Shi Cuntong, Jing Hengyi, Dai Jitao and other key historical figures are also portrayed in the movie. (Sources: Douban and China Daily)
Director Hou Yong has worked on Zhang Yimou’s movies, The Road Home (1999) and Hero (2002), in cinematography and the camera/electrical department. He was also a co-director for a 2021 drama series The Rebel Princess starring Zhang Ziyi. Manifesto‘s cast members include Liu Ye, Hu Jun and Janice Man. It has premiered in China on March 24, 2023.
Director Hou Yong has worked on Zhang Yimou’s movies, The Road Home (1999) and Hero (2002), in cinematography and the camera/electrical department. He was also a co-director for a 2021 drama series The Rebel Princess starring Zhang Ziyi. Manifesto‘s cast members include Liu Ye, Hu Jun and Janice Man. It has premiered in China on March 24, 2023.
- 4/6/2023
- by Suzie Cho
- AsianMoviePulse
In a new documentary, film-maker Yael Bridge looks back and forward to see why some people have been so repelled by socialism and how things might change in the future
Lee Carter is a US Marine Corps veteran and Lyft driver. He is also a socialist. After he suffered a workplace injury, realised the system was broken and Googled “How do you run for office?”, he stood for election to the Virginia state assembly.
A campaign leaflet from his opponent displayed the faces of Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong – and Carter, who told film-maker Yael Bridge: “It’s from another era entirely. I was born in ’87, I don’t remember the Berlin wall falling, so the ‘red scare’ – anybody who uses the big scary ‘s’ word is automatically Stalin – it just doesn’t work any more.”...
Lee Carter is a US Marine Corps veteran and Lyft driver. He is also a socialist. After he suffered a workplace injury, realised the system was broken and Googled “How do you run for office?”, he stood for election to the Virginia state assembly.
A campaign leaflet from his opponent displayed the faces of Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong – and Carter, who told film-maker Yael Bridge: “It’s from another era entirely. I was born in ’87, I don’t remember the Berlin wall falling, so the ‘red scare’ – anybody who uses the big scary ‘s’ word is automatically Stalin – it just doesn’t work any more.”...
- 8/26/2021
- by David Smith in Washington
- The Guardian - Film News
“Miss Marx” is a biopic bookended by death, colored by it throughout. It introduces us to socialist activist Eleanor Marx at the funeral of her father Karl, and follows her through to her untimely suicide, at the age of 43, some 15 years later. Ghosts of the past and future weigh heavily on her in the interim: She mourns her father not long after burying her mother and her sister. Months after Eleanor’s suicide, her long-term partner Edward Aveling followed her into the ground; another sister took her own life years later. All of which is to say that waves and shadows of grief move through Susanna Nicchiarelli’s ambitious film at every turn, running backwards and forwards, as it studies how its subject attempted to change the world for the better — all while a hard black knot of compacted unhappiness settled and expanded inside her.
This makes for an unavoidably downcast portrait,...
This makes for an unavoidably downcast portrait,...
- 9/5/2020
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
There’s something that seems to jinx biopics about Karl Marx and his family. Perhaps it’s the irreconcilable need to talk respectfully about these early defenders of the working class while at the same time making their life’s work relevant to audiences. Few today read The Communist Manifest by Marx and Friedrich Engels, but many more could potentially get the highlights from a gripping film. We’re still waiting for that movie.
After Raoul Peck drew a blank with the disappointing The Young Karl Marx a few years ago, it’s the turn of Susanna Nicchiarelli to carry the burden in Miss Marx. The results ...
After Raoul Peck drew a blank with the disappointing The Young Karl Marx a few years ago, it’s the turn of Susanna Nicchiarelli to carry the burden in Miss Marx. The results ...
There’s something that seems to jinx biopics about Karl Marx and his family. Perhaps it’s the irreconcilable need to talk respectfully about these early defenders of the working class while at the same time making their life’s work relevant to audiences. Few today read The Communist Manifest by Marx and Friedrich Engels, but many more could potentially get the highlights from a gripping film. We’re still waiting for that movie.
After Raoul Peck drew a blank with the disappointing The Young Karl Marx a few years ago, it’s the turn of Susanna Nicchiarelli to carry the burden in Miss Marx. The results ...
After Raoul Peck drew a blank with the disappointing The Young Karl Marx a few years ago, it’s the turn of Susanna Nicchiarelli to carry the burden in Miss Marx. The results ...
Venice Golden Lion contender “Miss Marx,” starring Romola Garai as the spirited daughter of philosopher Karl Marx, has secured its first tranche of international deals ahead of the September fest. (Watch the film’s exclusive trailer above.)
Written and directed by Susanna Nicchiarelli, with Celluloid Dreams serving as international sales agent, the film has been picked up by DDDreams in China and B-Team in Spain. In Italy, 01 — the distribution arm of Rai Cinema — will distribute the film, which is produced by Vivo film with Rai Cinema and Tarantula.
In what appears to be a refreshingly rock ‘n’ roll take on history, Garai plays Marx’s youngest daughter Eleanor, a strong feminist and socialist who takes part in workers’ battles and fights for women’s rights, as well as the abolition of child labor. The film also details her tragic relationship with Edward Aveling (Patrick Kennedy), whom she meets in 1883.
Nicchiarelli...
Written and directed by Susanna Nicchiarelli, with Celluloid Dreams serving as international sales agent, the film has been picked up by DDDreams in China and B-Team in Spain. In Italy, 01 — the distribution arm of Rai Cinema — will distribute the film, which is produced by Vivo film with Rai Cinema and Tarantula.
In what appears to be a refreshingly rock ‘n’ roll take on history, Garai plays Marx’s youngest daughter Eleanor, a strong feminist and socialist who takes part in workers’ battles and fights for women’s rights, as well as the abolition of child labor. The film also details her tragic relationship with Edward Aveling (Patrick Kennedy), whom she meets in 1883.
Nicchiarelli...
- 7/31/2020
- by Manori Ravindran
- Variety Film + TV
The film stars Garai as Karl Marx’s youngest daughter Eleanor.
Paris-based sales company Celluloid Dreams has acquired world sales rights on Susanna Nicchiarelli’s upcoming biopic Miss Marx, starring Romola Garai as Karl Marx’s youngest daughter Eleanor.
The picture, set in 19th-Century England, is produced by Marta Donzelli and Gregorio Paonessa of Rome-based independent production company Vivo film with Rai Cinema and in co-production with Valérie Bournonville and Joseph Rouschop of Tarantula and will shoot in the fall of 2019.
Donzelli and Paonessa, whose credits also include Le Quattro Volte and Daughter Of Mine, produced Nicchiarelli’s award-winning 2017 film...
Paris-based sales company Celluloid Dreams has acquired world sales rights on Susanna Nicchiarelli’s upcoming biopic Miss Marx, starring Romola Garai as Karl Marx’s youngest daughter Eleanor.
The picture, set in 19th-Century England, is produced by Marta Donzelli and Gregorio Paonessa of Rome-based independent production company Vivo film with Rai Cinema and in co-production with Valérie Bournonville and Joseph Rouschop of Tarantula and will shoot in the fall of 2019.
Donzelli and Paonessa, whose credits also include Le Quattro Volte and Daughter Of Mine, produced Nicchiarelli’s award-winning 2017 film...
- 5/10/2019
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Chicago – There is one week to go in one of the country’s most comprehensive Eurocentric cinema event, the 21st Chicago European Union (EU) Film Festival at the Gene Siskel Film Center. It wraps up with Closing Night on Thursday, April 5th, 2018, screening “The Young Karl Marx,” directed by Raoul Peck (“I Am Not Your Negro”). The film, which acts as a superhero origin story for a geopolitical philosophy, is the closer for the four week fest, which began on March 9th.
’The Young Karl Marx’ Closes the 2018 Chicago EU Film Festival on April 5th
Photo credit: SiskelFilmCenter.org
“The Young Karl Marx” is set in 1843, in a period when Europe was in upheaval, with revolution and politics at the forefront. Karl Marx (August Diehl) is a journalist, whose ideas are stirring the debate in his travels, to keep ahead of his creditors. His wife Jenny (Vicky Krieps) supports his writings,...
’The Young Karl Marx’ Closes the 2018 Chicago EU Film Festival on April 5th
Photo credit: SiskelFilmCenter.org
“The Young Karl Marx” is set in 1843, in a period when Europe was in upheaval, with revolution and politics at the forefront. Karl Marx (August Diehl) is a journalist, whose ideas are stirring the debate in his travels, to keep ahead of his creditors. His wife Jenny (Vicky Krieps) supports his writings,...
- 3/30/2018
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
The retrospective dedicated to the work of Peter Nestler organized by Tate Modern and Goethe-Institut in London that runs between the 10th and the 17th of November is the first big retrospective of Nestler’s films in the Anglophone world. The program of the documentary festival Dok Leipzig also featured a collection of Nestler’s films, and absolut Medien just put out a DVD box set featuring many of Nestler’s films. This interview, conducted with Martin Grennberger, is a shorter version of the original text published at Magasinet Walden and was translated to English by myself and Kurt Walker.
Martin Grennberger: The documentary filmmaker Hartmut Bitomsky has described your thematic approaches and ideological concerns as a product of attitudes that took shape during the 1950s. Specifically, a position which tries to establish a functional critical attitude and a policy based on an anti-fascist stance; but also criticizes what you...
Martin Grennberger: The documentary filmmaker Hartmut Bitomsky has described your thematic approaches and ideological concerns as a product of attitudes that took shape during the 1950s. Specifically, a position which tries to establish a functional critical attitude and a policy based on an anti-fascist stance; but also criticizes what you...
- 11/13/2012
- by Stefan Ramstedt
- MUBI
Migrating Forms has just revealed the full program for its third edition, running May 20 through 29 at Anthology Film Archives in New York. And it's pretty impressive, so we're going to go the quickest route here and reproduce the release below the jump.
Special Events
Georges Perec Double Bill
Serie Noire Dir Alain Corneau (1979)
Georges Perec wrote dialogue made up almost entirely of cliches and aphorisms for this adaptation of Jim Thompson's A Hell of a Woman. "The only Thompson adaptation to truly express the author's deeply personal darkness." - Moving Image Source
Un homme qui dort (The Man Who Slept) Dir. Georges Perec and Bernard Queysanne (1974)
Adapted from Georges Perec's novel of the same name. Structured as a filmic sestina, Perec and Queysanne reimagine the framework of the novel while maintaining much of the original narration (read by Shelly Duvall in the English version!).
The Art of the...
Special Events
Georges Perec Double Bill
Serie Noire Dir Alain Corneau (1979)
Georges Perec wrote dialogue made up almost entirely of cliches and aphorisms for this adaptation of Jim Thompson's A Hell of a Woman. "The only Thompson adaptation to truly express the author's deeply personal darkness." - Moving Image Source
Un homme qui dort (The Man Who Slept) Dir. Georges Perec and Bernard Queysanne (1974)
Adapted from Georges Perec's novel of the same name. Structured as a filmic sestina, Perec and Queysanne reimagine the framework of the novel while maintaining much of the original narration (read by Shelly Duvall in the English version!).
The Art of the...
- 5/9/2011
- MUBI
Kevin Markwick spent his childhood in the small-town Sussex cinema his father bought in 1964. Now he owns and runs it
I follow Kevin Markwick along a corridor lined with boxes of popcorn to his office while he does an impression of Alec Guinness as Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars. "These aren't the droids you're looking for," he recites, sounding uncannily like the late actor. Markwick is a great mimic, quoting lines from classic movies with near-perfect accuracy.
His office is much like any other, except for the constant roar of movies playing in ear-splitting Dolby Digital next door. Today, it's an early afternoon showing of The Sorcerer's Apprentice, making my chest boom as we chat happily about film.
Markwick owns the independent Picture House cinema in Uckfield, a sleepy town in East Sussex about 10 minutes from Lewes with a population of around 14,000. An hour and a quarter from London by train,...
I follow Kevin Markwick along a corridor lined with boxes of popcorn to his office while he does an impression of Alec Guinness as Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars. "These aren't the droids you're looking for," he recites, sounding uncannily like the late actor. Markwick is a great mimic, quoting lines from classic movies with near-perfect accuracy.
His office is much like any other, except for the constant roar of movies playing in ear-splitting Dolby Digital next door. Today, it's an early afternoon showing of The Sorcerer's Apprentice, making my chest boom as we chat happily about film.
Markwick owns the independent Picture House cinema in Uckfield, a sleepy town in East Sussex about 10 minutes from Lewes with a population of around 14,000. An hour and a quarter from London by train,...
- 9/17/2010
- by Mark King
- The Guardian - Film News
Courtesy of MTV
J-Woww indeed! Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels would be so effin’ proud: Snooki, The Sitch, Pauly D, and the Wowwza made MTV blink first, and they’ll be making $30,000 per episode! We got a chance to speak to Vinny after the announcement and he is totally psyched!
Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi, Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino, Paul “Pauly D” DelVecchio, Vinny Guadagnino and Jenni “Jwoww” Farley have won out in their fight against MTV and will be receiving $30,000 per episode next season, reports the New York Post. That’s six times more than the $5000-per-episode they were making in Season 1! HollywoodLife.com spoke to Vinny right after the announcement was made! “It’s flattering how many people were behind us and wanted us to come back for a third season,” says Vinny. “I think that energy will make it the best season yet. Looking forward to getting back to the shore!
J-Woww indeed! Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels would be so effin’ proud: Snooki, The Sitch, Pauly D, and the Wowwza made MTV blink first, and they’ll be making $30,000 per episode! We got a chance to speak to Vinny after the announcement and he is totally psyched!
Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi, Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino, Paul “Pauly D” DelVecchio, Vinny Guadagnino and Jenni “Jwoww” Farley have won out in their fight against MTV and will be receiving $30,000 per episode next season, reports the New York Post. That’s six times more than the $5000-per-episode they were making in Season 1! HollywoodLife.com spoke to Vinny right after the announcement was made! “It’s flattering how many people were behind us and wanted us to come back for a third season,” says Vinny. “I think that energy will make it the best season yet. Looking forward to getting back to the shore!
- 7/21/2010
- by HL Intern
- HollywoodLife
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