The “Barcelona International Auteur Film Festival” will take place from Thursday 29th April until 9th May. The event, in its eleventh year, will open with the French tragicomedy “Bye Bye Morons”. Directed by and starring Albert Dupontel this film, honoured with seven César prizes in its home country, is […]
Culture
The big questions about material reality
Listening to a programme about the theoretical physicist Paul Dirac is convincing evidence that most of us don’t understand the fundamentals of our physical universe. Sean Sheehan Other evidence is the unquenchable thirst for books like Frank Wilczek’s “Fundamentals: ten keys to reality” by those who do. Some […]
The cynical British racism over its colonies
“Small Axe” is an anthology consisting of five film in series that together weave a concise and cohesive overview of the racial violence that prevailed in London from the end of the 60s until the start of the 80s. “Lovers rock” stands out for its audio-visual potential. Gustavo Galuppo […]
Bickering nuns and broken spies
Rejecting the privilege and conformity of her background, Sylvia Townsend Warner shared communist beliefs with her lover, Valentine Ackland, and the two women worked for the Red Cross during the Spanish Civil War. Sean Sheehan This is a far cry from her 1948 novel, “The corner that held […]
The Human Rights Watch Film Festival is here
Between 18 and 26 March, one of the most important events in the world will take place throughout the UK, during which the Seventh Art will become the medium to narrate situations of human right violations and thereby raising awareness about the need to end them. The 25th edition […]
















