Culture
‘The Old Oak’: Another masterwork from Ken Loach
July 9, 2024Ken Loach’s current film The Old Oak is yet another timeless masterwork from one of cinema’s greatest directors.
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‘I Saw It: Francisco de Goya, Printmaker’ at Pasadena’s Norton Simon
July 8, 2024Art lovers, and lovers of humanity and justice, are heading to the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena through August 5, for an immersive experience.
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Pride and Billy Elliot: same strike, contrasting portrayals
July 5, 2024Both Billy Elliot and Pride are set during the pivotal 1984-5 Miners’ Union strike in northern England, where miners struggled for over a year against the implacable Thatcher government to win better working conditions.
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Four Palestinian poems: The poet could have predicted it
July 2, 2024Teacher, poet and activist Carolfrances Likins published ‘Because I Breathe, This I Must Write,’ a collection of poems, in 2013.
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Michael Wilson’s ‘Salt of the Earth’ script, miracle of the blacklist era
July 1, 2024Salt of the Earth was the most daring script of Michael Wilson’s career.
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