arts and culture – People's World

Documentary ‘Hopper/Welles’: When ‘Easy Rider’ met ‘Citizen Kane’

October 29, 2020 By Ed Rampell

The documentary Hopper/Welles, which screened at the 34th annual AFI Fest, is to film history what 1989’s When Harry Met Sally is to romcoms.

Modern-day China through Chinese eyes: reviews from Toronto International Film Festival

October 28, 2020 By Bill Meyer

U.S. relations with China are possibly at an all-time low, although Washington has opposed the government since the victory of the Chinese Communist Party in 1949.

‘My Psychedelic Love Story’: A flashback down memory lane to meet Timothy Leary

October 27, 2020 By Ed Rampell

Morris’s cinematic sensibility meshes well with Leary’s psychedelic psyche.

‘Coming Together’ concert raising awareness for voters rights available to watch now

October 23, 2020 By Special to People’s World

Music by radical U.S. composer Frederic Rzewski, African-American composer Florence Price, and Johann Sebastian Bach is featured in an online concert.

Sinclair Lewis’s ‘It Can’t Happen Here’ as masterpiece radio theater

October 22, 2020 By Special to People’s World

The struggle for democracy is ongoing in every generation, not the least our own on the cusp of a crucial election in which the future course of America will be written.