2025 January – New ‘Lost Shtetl’ Museum Allegedly Blocks Public Release of Saulius Beržinis’s Documentary on the Holocaust in Sheduva. But the Film (and Trailer) are Circulating Widely 2025 January – Some Ins and Outs of the Antisemitic-Led Party now in Lithuania’s Governing Coalition...
Propaganda is a type of communication used to persuade or influence an audience to further an agenda. It may not be objective and may present selective facts to encourage a particular perception, or it may use influential language to elicit an emotional response to the information presented. See...
Who can forgot Meryl Streep sporting the tone deaf ‘I’d rather be a rebel than slave’ tee to promote 2015 film, Suffragette or the plethora of ‘girl boss’ infused suffrage merch that littered stores to mark the centenary of some women getting the vote in 2018. This kind of tactic i...
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"SIX-DAY BIKE RIDER"STARRING JOE. E. BROWN AND THE 1939 GM BICYCLE SAFETY FILM,"ON TWO WHEELS"... WE HAVE THE ORIGINAL FILMS OF THE 1940s"BOWDEN ALUMINUM CLASSIC"(PREDECESSOR TO THE 1960 FIBERGLASS SPACELANDER) SHOW INTRODUCTION OF THE ORIGINAL, RIDING SCENES, CLOSE-UP DETAILS OF THE ...
One of the few moments I remembered from the film was Astaire’s number above, which is spectacular. In the movie he improvises it on the spot when his dancing partner doesn’t show up, which is of course impossible, even for Fred. In fact, the entire movie is so ridiculous and contri...
HISTORY OF A DECADE THAT HAS NOT YET BEEN NAMED Thierry Raspail, Artistic Director LET'S TALK BIENNIALS: A few decades ago art historian George Kubler came up with the notion of the "Prime Object": a form, picture or building whose factuality is acquired retrospectively, as the product of...
to Soap Opera Rapid Aging Syndrome, going from a newborn to a toddler (or older) in the space of a few seasons. A prime example is Little Nicky from “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air,” who went from infant to preschooler in one season while the rest of the cast didn’t age or ...
I’ve been watching some of the debates centred on military history with great interest. The Centenary of the Third Battle of Ypres (or is it Paschendaele?!) and the release of the film Dunkirk have inspired much navel-gazing and hand-wringing from military historians. ...