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1993 Film Favorites, Part 3: Responsibility in Schindler’s List
Continuing our thirtieth anniversary series on monumental 1993 films, we’re examining the Holocaust epic Schindler’s List. Whereas previously reviewed Jurassic Park was an enjoyable blockbuster and So I Married An Axe Murderer became a…
Lessons of war | Eurozine
Twenty years ago, on 31 May 2003, Jürgen Habermas, supported by Jacques Derrida and accompanied by other leading intellectuals, launched an ambitious initiative for the creation of a European public sphere. This, they…
CAPC’s Most Popular Posts of 2023 (So Far…)
Believe it or not, but we’re halfway through 2023. So now seems like the perfect time to take a moment, reflect, and highlight some of our most popular content of the year to date.
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‘Deep political changes are only a matter of time’
In April 2023 the Russian opposition politician and human rights activist Vladimir Kara-Murza was sentenced to 25 years in prison for speaking out against the war on Ukraine. He was found guilty of ‘running an…
Seeing and Believing 385 | Past Lives & A Room with a View (1985)
It’s spring, and romance is in the air. Sarah and Kevin each fall for Celine Song’s debut feature Past Lives, about two childhood sweethearts reconnecting decades later. For the Watchlist segment, Sarah introduces Kevin to the!-->!-->!-->…
Russia’s futures | Eurozine
In its new issue, Glänta partners with Colta.ru, the online cultural journal shut down by the Russian state in March 2022. Together with Maria Stepanova, Colta.ru’s founder and editor-in-chief, Glänta has gathered a…
Collapsing (dis)orders | Eurozine
‘One, two, three – order is about counting, about serialising, joining together. Order makes clear what’s up and down, what comes earlier and what later. Order helps us understand, predict and control. Order is the…
Seeing and Believing 383 | Master Gardener & Mikey and Nicky
Kevin’s a fan of the first two movies in Paul Schrader’s unofficial “Men with Guilt” trilogy. Sarah’s a little less enamored of those movies overall. Will the two be able to agree on the third film in Schrader’s trilogy, Master…
The myth of sudden death
Earlier this year, John Keane started off a discussion on the death of democracies in Eurozine’s focal point ‘The writing on the wall’. Since then, the pace of a democracy breakdown have been discussed by several…
May Bonus 2023 | Kelly Reichardt’s Showing Up
In this bonus episode, Sarah and Kevin review Kelly Reichardt’s latest movie, Showing Up, in which Michelle Williams plays an artist trying to hold it together as she prepares for a show.Have thoughts about the movies we reviewed?!-->!-->!-->…