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Divine violence

Violence was all around Walter Benjamin when he set down to write “Toward the critique of violence” in December 1920.   Sean Sheehan   The First World War had only been over for two years, the German Revolution had been ruthlessly suppressed in 1919 and nine months earlier a right-wing […]

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My name is Alfred Hitchcock

This is a 120-minute documentary that recreates Alfred Hitchcock’s masterpieces and, at the same time, invites us to discover lesser-known titles and his early works in silent films, such as Farmer’s Wife (1928), one of his favourites.   Daimarelys Pérez   The strong personality of the master of suspense and […]