by Yevgeny Zamyatin
This precursor to 1984 and Brave New World explores a futuristic world wherein uniformity is the order of the day; the characters are known by numerical designation, everything is tightly scheduled (from work to “free time” to sex), private property is abolished, and walls are made of glass so no one has any [...]
I’m sorry, Jean-Luc, I didn’t quite get it this time. This Godard film was made in 1961, but not released in France for a couple of years because of its unflinching torture scenes and intimation that the French army was quite as unprincipled as the Algerian one during the Algerian War. I don’t know anything [...]
In the early 1930s, Langston Hughes flirted with Communism, as his poetry from the time period makes clear. However, he never lost sight of his own people and his poetry reflects his desire to unite the plight of the African-American with that of the oppressed worker throughout the world in hopes of a better life for all.
I’m not entirely sure how I feel about this film overall. Technically, it’s gorgeous. The effects are great, the money shots are nice (I’m particularly partial to the domino effect making the “V” logo), and I’m always glad to watch Natalie Portman in anything. But the story of anarchist V plotting to blow up the [...]
