Arts Review
Lions roaring in a well
Vince Melocchi’s Lions at the Pacific Resident Theatre
By Richard Adams, April 1, 2009
Lions is set in a neighborhood tavern in Detroit. The play treats the lives of a group of working class football fans, as their team disappoints them once again, and their economic and personal prospe...
The future of art in an age of crisis
David Walsh, WSWS arts editor, to speak in Virginia
April 1, 2009
The International Students for Social Equality and the Socialist Equality Party are hosting meetings in Michigan and Virginia in April.
An interview with Jennifer Venditti, director of Billy the Kid
By Joanne Laurier, March 31, 2009
The WSWS spoke recently with Jennifer Venditti, director of Billy the Kid.
Billy the Kid: “Can you see inside me?”
By Joanne Laurier, March 31, 2009
Billy the Kid is an unusual independent film, about a teenager in a small town in Maine.
Edward Upward: An artistic vision at odds with his politics
By Paul Bond, March 30, 2009
British writer Edward Upward, who died last month, aged 105, was a remarkable figure.
Duplicity: The essential unseriousness of it
By David Walsh, March 27, 2009
After the relatively critical edge of Michael Clayton, filmmaker Tony Gilroy appears to offer an olive branch to Hollywood in the form of the trivial, unengaged Duplicity.
The 59th Berlinale–Part 3
Intimations of changes to come—but nothing more
On the film series: After Winter Comes Spring—Films presaging the fall of the Berlin Wall
By Bernd Reinhardt, March 19, 2009
The German Kinemathek at this year’s Berlinale showed a retrospective series of Eastern European films made between 1977 and 1989: dramas, documentaries, experimental films and animated films from t...
Will Ferrell says goodbye to the Bush Administration in You’re Welcome America: A Final Night With George W. Bush
By Hiram Lee, March 18, 2009
Actor Will Ferrell’s one man show about former President George W. Bush was broadcast on American television this weekend. While a popular success on Broadway, the play accomplishes very little.
Watchmen and Hollywood’s advanced state of decay
By David Walsh, March 13, 2009
Films are only going to get worse before they get better, if Watchmen and the noisy, bombastic trailers accompanying it are any indication.
Questions and answers on the Hollywood blacklists—Part 2
An interview with film historian Reynold Humphries
By David Walsh, March 12, 2009
Last month the WSWS posted a review of Hollywood’s Blacklists: A Political and Cultural History by Reynold Humphries. We subsequently conducted an interview with the author, which we are posting in ...
Questions and answers on the Hollywood blacklists—Part 1
An interview with film historian Reynold Humphries
By David Walsh, March 11, 2009
Last month the WSWS posted a review of Hollywood’s Blacklists: A Political and Cultural History by Reynold Humphries. We subsequently conducted an interview with the author, which we are posting in ...
Stories from coal mining towns in Appalachia
An interview with author Ruth White, author of Little Audrey
By Jane Stimmen, March 6, 2009
The WSWS recently interviewed Ruth White, whose book Little Audrey deals with 1948 life in the coal town of Jewell Valley, Virginia.
