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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.

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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.

Keir Starmer surrounded by red "change" placards

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.

Barbara Windsor stands besides Queen Elizabeth II behind a pub counter

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.

A person wearing a face mask sits at a passover seder table holding a sign that reads 'my jewish family wants palestinian families to be safe'

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.

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Review: The Zone of Interest Reminds Us How Easy It Is to Ignore a Genocide on Your Doorstep

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.

Novara FM: Why Posh People Have Bad Taste

Taste may be subjective, but there's no accounting for it. Critic Nathalie Olah on normcore, hoodies and the Kardashian mansion.

Tag: culture

Opinion: No Other Land Has Exposed the Film Industry’s Cowardice

Juliet Jacques

Opinion: Labour’s Culture Secretary Is Missing in Action

Juliet Jacques

Review: Novara Media’s Best Books of 2024

Aaron Bastani & Ash Sarkar

Feature: This ‘Israeli-Palestinian’ Boyband Is Whitewashing Apartheid

Ed Gillett

ACFM: Trip 46: Death

Downstream: Massive Attack Founder on Palestine, Riots and the Greenest Music Festival Ever

Feature: London’s First Palestinian Cultural Centre Is Within Arm’s Reach

Juliet Jacques

Opinion: The Arts Will Die Under Grey Labour

Juliet Jacques

ACFM: Microdose: Notes on Camp

Feature: Soaps Give Working Class Actors a Chance – And They’re Disappearing

Polly Smythe

Feature: Against All Odds, Brent Council Is Investing in Its Artists

Juliet Jacques

Review: The Zone of Interest Reminds Us How Easy It Is to Ignore a Genocide on Your Doorstep

Juliet Jacques

ACFM: Microdose: Aliens on Screen

Novara FM: The Nasty Noughties

Feature: Argentina Wants to Whitewash Its Military Junta. Unfortunately, There’s Video Evidence

Juliet Jacques

Novara FM: Why Posh People Have Bad Taste

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Tag: culture

Opinion: No Other Land Has Exposed the Film Industry’s Cowardice

Juliet Jacques

Opinion: Labour’s Culture Secretary Is Missing in Action

Juliet Jacques

Review: Novara Media’s Best Books of 2024

Aaron Bastani & Ash Sarkar

Feature: This ‘Israeli-Palestinian’ Boyband Is Whitewashing Apartheid

Ed Gillett

Review: Asif Kapadia Doesn’t Know What He’s Trying to Say

Juliet Jacques

ACFM: Trip 46: Death

Downstream: Massive Attack Founder on Palestine, Riots and the Greenest Music Festival Ever

Feature: London’s First Palestinian Cultural Centre Is Within Arm’s Reach

Juliet Jacques

Opinion: The Arts Will Die Under Grey Labour

Juliet Jacques

ACFM: Microdose: Notes on Camp

Feature: Soaps Give Working Class Actors a Chance – And They’re Disappearing

Polly Smythe

Feature: Against All Odds, Brent Council Is Investing in Its Artists

Juliet Jacques

Feature: Young Jews Are Sick of Being Lied to About Israel

Rivkah Brown

Review: The Zone of Interest Reminds Us How Easy It Is to Ignore a Genocide on Your Doorstep

Juliet Jacques

ACFM: Microdose: Aliens on Screen

Novara FM: The Nasty Noughties

Feature: Argentina Wants to Whitewash Its Military Junta. Unfortunately, There’s Video Evidence

Juliet Jacques

Novara FM: Why Posh People Have Bad Taste

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