Two films about the Russian Revolution
With very different formal choices and similar plots, two Soviet films celebrate the Russian Revolution of 1917.
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Mnemokino
Film and Politics
Carla Dórea Bartz
- Mar 31, 2022
- 5 min
Trumbo and the communist-hunting in the United States
The film shows how the government's arbitrary persecution was, in fact, an attack on freedom of expression and free association.
Carla Dórea Bartz
- Feb 14, 2022
- 3 min
Nymphomaniac, by Lars von Trier, and the limits of freedom of expression
The film explains the contradictions of politically correct discourse, the key to understanding the cultural logic of late capitalism.
Carla Dórea Bartz
- Jan 27, 2022
- 3 min
An extraordinary film called Ordinary Fascism
Documentary shows the terrible alliance between the Nazis and the bourgeoisie, who made the II World War a profitable business of corpses.
Carla Dórea Bartz
- Jan 26, 2022
- 3 min
American film questions the arbitrariness of private property
First Cow addresses capitalist irrationality in the lives of individuals on the edge of marginality.
Carla Dórea Bartz
- Jan 3, 2022
- 6 min
Don't Look Up: The end of capitalism is near
Why, in American cinema, is it always easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism?
Carla Dórea Bartz
- Dec 27, 2021
- 2 min
The Power of the Dog is a challenging game of appearances
The film lucidly addresses contemporary identity morality through the hidden agendas of its characters.
Carla Dórea Bartz
- Dec 15, 2021
- 2 min
PVT Chat shows the legacy of Occupy Wall Street movement
The film is a surprising analysis of the alienation and helplessness of urban middle-class youth in the United States today.
Carla Dórea Bartz
- Dec 9, 2021
- 3 min
Vagabond: a dystopia by Agnès Varda
The film deserves a view in light of the current historical and social situation and the increasingly fragmented anti-capitalist movements.
Carla Dórea Bartz
- Nov 10, 2021
- 3 min
Dog Day Afternoon and the origins of the moralistic identity agenda
Sidney Lumet film offers an analysis that shows how identity politics is part of the strategies of capitalism.
Carla Dórea Bartz
- Nov 3, 2021
- 2 min
Film shows imperialism as barbarism
Waiting for the Barbarians, directed by Colombian Ciro Guerra, discusses our mistaken perception of civilization and barbarism.
Carla Dórea Bartz
- Sep 30, 2021
- 3 min
Tábata Amaral's violence against Brazilian women
The recent case involving actor José de Abreu and right-wing federal deputy Tábata Amaral is just one more sad episode in an empty and...
Carla Dórea Bartz
- Sep 24, 2021
- 2 min
What is materialist cultural criticism?
As a scientific field, materialist cultural criticism has an avant-garde vocation and should be linked to broader revolutionary movements.
Carla Dórea Bartz
- Sep 14, 2021
- 4 min
Jia Zhang-Ke and the Chinese Communist Revolution
To reflect on the Chinese revolutionary path, director Jia Zhang-Ke directed the documentary Swimming out Till the Sea Turns Blue.
Carla Dórea Bartz
- Sep 13, 2021
- 3 min
Coal Face, a film by Alberto Cavalcanti
Coal Face is an English documentary of over 11 minutes, directed by Brazilian filmmaker Alberto Cavalcanti in 1935.
Carla Dórea Bartz
- Sep 13, 2021
- 2 min
The endless rain of stones
Two films by Ken Loach help us to understand the worsening of living conditions for the English working-class during his period.
Carla Dórea Bartz
- Sep 11, 2021
- 2 min
The importance of The Shock Doctrine
This 2009 documentary, based on the book by Naomi Klein, helps us to understand how capitalism works in order to destroy countries to keep p
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