Culture

Palestine in Toronto: Cinematic representation at a prestigious film festival

November 9, 2017 By Bill Meyer

Many of the great films shown this year at TIFF have been chosen by their country to represent them on the world stage.

Musical social history at Encuentro, L.A. Latino theatre festival

November 8, 2017 By Eric A. Gordon

Encuentro de las Américas! We’ve just started an 18-day “encounter” of 14 theater companies from around the U.S. and from Canada, Peru, Colombia, Cuba, and Mexico, all at downtown’s Los Angeles Theatre Center (LATC) through November...

Refugees in Toronto: Reporting from the international film festival

November 8, 2017 By Bill Meyer

Two master filmmakers have again addressed the issue of immigration and refugees and the tragic toll it takes on nations and the immigrants themselves. Both films were featured at the Toronto International Film Festival and they...

This week in history: Centennial of the October Revolution in Russia

November 6, 2017 By Special to People’s World

This week we publish the poem “October” by Anatoly Borisovich Marienhof (or Mariengof in Russian), who lived from 1897 to 1962.

Eisenstein’s “Ten Days That Shook the World” screens in L.A.

November 3, 2017 By Special to People’s World

As the grand finale to the Ten Films That Shook the World film series , the Los Angeles Workers Center and Hollywood Progressive present Sergei Eisenstein's 1927 revolutionary classic.