Between the Lines Is a Prescient Homage to Print Media
Released almost 50 years ago, Joan Micklin Silver’s touching film about the decline of print media, Between the Lines, is a love letter to news and the people who make it.
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Soham Gadre is a writer and filmmaker based in Washington, DC.
The Spirit of ’45 Can’t Be Snuffed Out
Ken Loach’s The Spirit of ’45 chronicles how Labour ended many of the UK’s worst barbarities through socializing key industries and creating public goods like the National Health Service. That project is now on the back foot — but won’t ever be fully defeated.
The 1964 Italian Film That Speaks to the Dread of Climate Change
Michelangelo Antonioni’s Red Desert was far ahead of its time in its depiction of the widespread sense of paralysis at our ability to stop capitalism from destroying the planet.
Showcasing the Best of Working-Class Cinema
Movies are a uniquely powerful medium to depict working-class life in its full richness. The DC Labor Film Fest, which ends this weekend, has collected the best such worker films for streaming.