Co-director of award-winning No Other Land attacked by Israeli fascist settlers and military
Only three weeks ago, Ballal was on the stage at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles to accept an Oscar.
•David Walsh
Film History & Features
American filmmaker David Lynch (1946-2025)
Lynch attracted so much attention and interest in part because he stood out as an expressive, undoubtedly unusual figure in the generally bleak cultural landscape of the Reagan-Bush-Clinton years.
•David Walsh
In flagrant attack on free speech, Miami Beach mayor threatens cinema that showed award-winning documentary No Other Land
The US political and entertainment establishment have made it their business to suppress No Other Land, for fear of its impact on public opinion.
•David Walsh
Actor Gene Hackman (1930-2025): A great American realist
Hackman brought an acute, artistically informed urgency and honesty to his roles that often transcended the conceptions and methods of the filmmaker in question.
•David Walsh
The success of No Other Land and I’m Still Here at the Academy Awards shows growing popular opposition and radicalization
Two of No Other Land’s co-directors, Palestinian Basel Adra and Israeli Yuval Abraham, decried the decades of injustice and the ongoing ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians.
•David Walsh
Trump, Musk and fascism, the film industry and the Academy Awards
Opposition is building to the Trump-Musk regime, but that resistance needs greater political clarity, depth and understanding. Artists must play a role in this.
•David Walsh
All We Imagine as Light director Payal Kapadia speaks with WSWS
“When it comes to people coming together in India, and really everywhere, the different cultures, languages and identities often come in the way of that unity.”
•Richard Phillips
2025 Academy Award nominations: What’s happening in Hollywood, what’s happening in the world
The nominations were largely weak and uninspiring, more than in recent years, reflective of a film industry in economic and artistic crisis
•David Walsh
A conversation with Joseph McBride about his study of Hollywood film director George Cukor: “There are many flawed people in his films, but Cukor understands human imperfection”—Part 2
This is the second part of an interview with Joseph McBride, author of George Cukor’s People. The first part was posted January 8.
•David Walsh
A conversation with Joseph McBride about his study of Hollywood film director George Cukor: “There are many flawed people in his films, but Cukor understands human imperfection”–Part 1
First part of an interview with film historian, critic and biographer Joseph McBride about his new book George Cukor's People: Acting for a Master Director, a study of the Hollywood director whose career in feature films lasted half a century, from 1930 to 1981.
•David Walsh
George Cukor's People: A new study of the remarkable Hollywood film director
Cukor entered feature filmmaking, first as an assistant working with the actors, during the twilight of the silent era in 1929 and persisted with dozens of works, many of them immensely popular, for half a century.
•David Walsh
California film and television tax breaks: Subsidizing corporate profits at the expense of workers
The California tax credit program is not an investment in the future of the film and television industry—it is a giveaway to the rich, financed by public funds.
•Marc Wells
No Other Land, exposing Israeli settlers’ military criminality, wins awards at International Documentary Association ceremony in Los Angeles—but still no distributor in the US!
The film distribution network has refused to see to it that the work is actually shown to the public in the US.
•David Walsh
Wake in Fright (1971): A nightmare vision of the Australian outback
Ted Kotcheff’s movie, an early product of the newly revived national film industry, helped pave the way for the Australian New Wave.
•Owen Howell
Berlin Senate website defames award-winning, Palestinian-Israeli film No Other Land as “antisemitic”
Israeli director Yuval Abraham has sharply denounced the latest campaign by the German authorities to stigmatise his film and the filmmaker himself as antisemitic.
•Stefan Steinberg
Comic, effervescent Teri Garr, US actress, dies at 79
The actress brightly and effectively enlivened numerous films and television series in the 1970s and 1980s in particular.
•David Walsh
Israeli authorities censor Lyd, a film about the massacre of Palestinians in 1948—and the possibility of a different historical outcome
The Culture Minister asserted the film presented “a distorted picture of reality” and that its screening amounted to an incitement to violence that could foment “unrest and tensions.”
•David Walsh
Acclaimed actor James Earl Jones: 1931-2024
Jones, one of the greatest American actors, also had a life story that is not well enough known.
•Fred Mazelis
“Freedom’s just another word for nothin’ left to lose”
Multifaceted performer, social critic Kris Kristofferson dies at 88
The singer-songwriter and film star maintained a commitment to artistic truth and a healthy opposition to oppression and conformity.
•Erik Schreiber
Artists with principle: Novelist Sally Rooney, actor Javier Bardem and author Jhumpa Lahiri protest Israeli mass murder in Gaza
Certain artists are demonstrating principle in the face of the world-historical crimes of Israel and its imperialist backers.
•David Walsh