Michael Berkowitz
LATEST ARTICLES BY Michael Berkowitz
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Culture
‘Fight On’: Anti-socialist hysteria motivates conservative propaganda flick
March 12, 2019Donald Trump has a movie he’d like you to see.
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Culture
‘My Brilliant Friend’: Two broke girls
January 10, 2019The brilliance of the series would seem to owe much to mid-20th-century Italian neorealist directors.
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Culture
‘My Country No More’: PBS asks, Whose land is it?
January 4, 2019“We are just people who are losing their way of life and their land.”
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Culture
‘Shoplifters’: New Japanese feature film shows how people survive
December 12, 2018Although it seems to roll out modestly as a simple tale of marginal people, its conclusion will force you to rethink central tenets of how individuals relate.
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Politics
‘ACORN and the Firestorm’: Uprooted
May 18, 2018ACORN and the Firestorm provides an invaluable service by demonstrating the effectiveness of community organizing.
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Culture
‘The Chinese Exclusion Act’: PBS documentary shows commonalities with current immigration struggles
May 4, 2018Current immigration debates revive echoes of the race-based system which defined U.S. immigration policy for well over half a century.
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Culture
“When God Sleeps”: An Iranian musician critiques his society
April 2, 2018Till Schaudner’s new documentary When God Sleeps is a robust, thoughtful account of punk rocker Shahin Najafi’s struggle to have his music and ideas heard despite death threats from the Iranian government.
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Culture
“Bombing Wall Street”: Yesterday and today
February 6, 2018The rise of Hoover, immigrant phobia, and the clash of capital and labor in the 1910s and 20s presaged our current conflicts.
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