Click Here to Read: Ruby Dee, American actress and activist, dead at 91 By David Walsh on the World Socialist WEb Site on June 14, 2014.
Ruby Dee in 1972
Category: Movies
Anxiety Arts Festival London 2014
The Lodz Ghetto, Review by Selma Duckler
“I’d tried to straighten him out, but there’s only so much you can do for a person who thinks Auschwitz is a brand of beer.”
― David Sedaris
It is 69 years since the summer of 1945 when WW11 ended,and the year in which the concentration camps were liberated. Very few of those concentration camp survivors remain, and in not too long a time, there will be no more eye witnesses to that history.
For those of us who see this as a grave fragility, it becomes very important that we take our responsibility to continue to dispense information about the holocaust with great seriousness. Ignorance harbors danger.
There is excellent Holocaust literature and movies. Continue reading The Lodz Ghetto, Review by Selma Duckler
So Bright is the View: A serious film from Romania
Sun Kil Moon’s Benji: Life and death (mostly death) in small-town Ohio
Manos Sucias, Freedom Summer and others: Bitter social conflict present and past
Orson Welles: An “unfinished artist” in an unfinished century
Click Here to Read: Orson Welles: An “unfinished artist” in an unfinished century. Event marks 80 years since theater festival in Woodstock, Illinois
By David Walsh and Joanne Laurier on the World Socialist Website on May 23, 2014.
Click Here to Read: Interviews with critics and film historians about Click Orson Welles By David Walsh and Joanne Laurier on the World Socialist Website on May 23, 2014.
Orson Welles in 1937
