ACFM: Does the Left Need New Heroes?
The ACFM crew ask whether the idea of the hero is a right-wing fantasy.
Tag: culture
Opinion: No Other Land Has Exposed the Film Industry’s Cowardice
Juliet Jacques
Despite being nominated for the best documentary Oscar, the Israeli-Palestinian co-production has struggled to find a US distributor. This sorry situation is a reflection of the spinelessness of an industry that loves to trumpet its liberal values, writes Juliet Jacques.
Opinion: Labour’s Culture Secretary Is Missing in Action
Juliet Jacques
Labour had a massive opportunity to counter the media onslaught and brighten the public mood, writes Juliet Jacques - and they’ve squandered it.
Review: Novara Media’s Best Books of 2024
Aaron Bastani & Ash Sarkar
There’s little worse than wasting your time on a bad book, and little more rewarding than getting it right. Aaron Bastani and Ash Sarkar share their top reads of the year.
Feature: This ‘Israeli-Palestinian’ Boyband Is Whitewashing Apartheid
Ed Gillett
The brainchild of two LA music execs, the six-piece group featuring Jewish and Palestinian citizens of Israel started recording together the day before 7 October. Is as1one an earnest attempt at musical coexistence, or something more sinister ? Ed Gillett reports.
Review: Asif Kapadia Doesn’t Know What He’s Trying to Say
Juliet Jacques
The director's new film 2073 gestures at social ills but struggles to name culprits, let alone solutions. The result is to induce despair rather than prompt action, writes Juliet Jacques.
ACFM: Trip 46: Death
Of all the unseen forces that shape human society, could death be the most powerful? The ACFM crew face the inevitable.
Downstream: Massive Attack Founder on Palestine, Riots and the Greenest Music Festival Ever
Moya Lothian-McLean talks to Robert Del Naja ahead of the Act 1.5 Climate Action Accelerator, a day festival which promises to be the greenest live music event of it’s size ever staged.
Feature: London’s First Palestinian Cultural Centre Is Within Arm’s Reach
Juliet Jacques
Sprawling across five floors of a former language school, the gorgeous Palestine House is poised to make history. Juliet Jacques reports.
Opinion: The Arts Will Die Under Grey Labour
Juliet Jacques
Amid a crowded field of strenuously unambitious manifesto pledges, Keir Starmer’s culture offering is spectacularly pathetic, writes Juliet Jacques.
ACFM: Microdose: Notes on Camp
Has camp changed culture forever? The gang revisit Susan Sontag's 1964 essay for an aesthetic Microdose.
Feature: Soaps Give Working Class Actors a Chance – And They’re Disappearing
Polly Smythe
As privately educated stars like Olivia Coleman and Andrew Garfield continue to infiltrate Hollywood, shows for and by regular people are being axed, writes Polly Smythe.
Feature: Against All Odds, Brent Council Is Investing in Its Artists
Juliet Jacques
Only 8% of film and TV professionals come from the working class, according to new stats. One of London’s most deprived boroughs wants to change that by paying artists to work in its studios, writes Juliet Jacques.
Feature: Young Jews Are Sick of Being Lied to About Israel
Rivkah Brown
For decades, diaspora Jews have been raised to believe in Israel. A new documentary tracks their loss of innocence, writes Rivkah Brown.
Review: The Zone of Interest Reminds Us How Easy It Is to Ignore a Genocide on Your Doorstep
Juliet Jacques
Jonathan Glazer’s latest film follows a Nazi family living in Auschwitz’s backyard. It couldn’t be timelier, writes Juliet Jacques.
ACFM: Microdose: Aliens on Screen
From Martian invaders to Mulder and Scully, our obsession with aliens says plenty about politics on Earth.
Novara FM: The Nasty Noughties
Owen Hatherley, Ash Sarkar and Juliet Jacques remember the decade that decency forgot.
Feature: Argentina Wants to Whitewash Its Military Junta. Unfortunately, There’s Video Evidence
Juliet Jacques
After 38 years gathering dust in an archive, Ulises de la Orden has returned to the footage of the trial of Argentina’s military junta, at a time when the country most needs to see it, writes Juliet Jacques.