Michael Berkowitz
LATEST ARTICLES BY Michael Berkowitz
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Filmic gifts of Gugu: ‘Fast Color’ and ‘The Girl Before’
March 10, 2022One can only hope that Gugu will continue to use her extraordinary gifts, gracing our screens to advance such causes and further our understanding and action.
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‘Yellowstone’: Low Noon, or How the Western was Lost
February 15, 2022The writers shifted focus to an idealized cowboy lifestyle which Sheridan located in Texas—where a man could still be “free.”
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‘Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy’: Rediscovering the wheel
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Challenging the poverty of words: Interview with progressive poet Frederick Pollack
January 12, 2022People’s World culture writer Michael Berkowitz asks about socialism, history, the future, and poetry’s role in all of those.
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‘Drive My Car’: It’s the journey
December 28, 2021Writer-director Ryusuke Hamaguchi has fashioned a brilliant study of relationships and love, need and understanding.
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‘Normal People’: Love among the ruins
November 29, 2021Rooney et al have created a masterpiece.
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‘Maid’ on Netflix: Class struggle on the small screen
November 12, 2021Clearly, we need more stories about how we live in order for us to build back better a new society.
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‘The Unusual Suspects’: Round them up!
September 13, 2021Unusual Suspects is also notable for its clear-eyed observations on the class dynamics between servants.
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