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The novels of Eric Ambler
Background to Danger
Cause for Alarm
A Coffin for Dimitrios
Journey Into Fear

Art and Revolution: a six part series
Abstract Expressionists

Jackson Pollock
Ben Shahn
Andy Warhol
Trotsky's theory of art
Clemente, Basquiat, Haring

Art
Insurgent Images: The Agitprop Murals of Mike Alewitz

Art as Commodity

Basquiat

Frank Gehry, Bard College, money and power
Heart of Ardor
William Morris
Camille Pissaro at the Jewish Museum
Rodchenko/Bonnard
Surrealism, Freud and Trotsky
Surrealism in the United States
Whitney 2004 Biennial Show
Frank Lloyd Wright

Literature
Chinua Achebe's "Anthills of the Savannah"
Tariq Ali's "Redemption," a satire on Trotskyism
The Beats
Saul Bellow
Saul Bellow in Retrospect
Paul Berman and Philip Roth
Bukharin's "How It All Began"
"By Night in Chile"
William S. Burroughs
Robert Creeley
Louise Erdrich's "Crown of Columbus"
Alan Furst's "Red Gold"
Spalding Gray
The crime novels of Patricia Highsmith
Elmore Leonard
Richard Greener's "The Knowland Retribution: The Locator"
Naguib Mafouz's "Midaq Alley"
Melville's "Confidence Man"
Melville's Typee
Herman Melville's's "The 'Gees"
Harvey Pekar's "The Quitter"

Robert Pinsky

John Sanford's "The People From Heaven"
Another stupid 9/11 novel
The Jungle Novels of B. Traven
John Updike

Music
Afroblue

Bomba and Rumba
Bonga
Ken Burn's jazz documentary
Cachao
Forcing culture down peoples' throats
Pierre Dorge
Bob Dylan
Hanns Eisler
Ethiopian music
Chico O'Farrell
A second look at the folk music revival
Benny Goodman
Gypsy Jazz
Charlie Haden
John Hammond
Hawaiian Slack Guitar
Michael Jackson, Elvis Presley and the perils of success
Jazz and the left
Salif Keita
John Kirby
Moby
Muzsikas and Bela Bartok
Opera
Robert Palmer
Porgy and Bess
Louis Prima
Radio Tarifa
Rembetika
Two rock-and-roll band documentaries
Oumou Sangare
Schoenberg Vindicated
Compay Segundo and Benny Carter
Frank Sinatra
A Tango concert
Ali Farka Toure
Turkish music on the Internet
Carla White
In Memoriam: Carla White and Manny Duran
Randy Weston
White Jazz

Television
The Apprentice

Baghdad ER
Breaking Bad
Buffy and NYPD
Californication
A George Carlin appearance
Curb Your Enthusiasm
History Channel on the Crusades
Desperate Housewives
Flipping Out
Stephen King's "Kingdom Hospital"
TV shows about Jimmy Hoffa and Joe McCarthy
Househunters
Lillian Hellman and Dashiel Hammett
Law and Order
Elia Kazan and Arthur Miller
Bill Moyers versus the lapdog media
Nip/Tuck
Lee Harvey Oswald
Saturday Night Live
Sex and the City
Smallville
Sopranos
Sorrell and Son
Star Trek

The Twilight Zone
Television and the witch hunt
A TV Tempest

Theater
Mike Leigh's "Goosepimples"
Dinah Was
Arthur Miller
The Tempest

Film
2008 movies: a consumer's guide
Act of Violence
Acts of Imagination
Adaptation
African Diaspora music documentaries
Salvador Allende
Two films about Alzheimer's disease
Amazing Grace
Amu
American Beauty; Fight Club
American Gypsy
The American Ruling Class
American Splendor
Angel on the Right
The Angry Monk
The Animal Farm
The Apostle
Arctic Son
Arguing the World
Army of Shadows
Two Asian films of note ("Tazza" and "The Taste of Tea")
2008 Asian Film Festival
2009 Asian Film Festival
7 films from the 2009 Asian Film Festival
Assata Shakur
August in the Empire State
The Aviator
A Simple Plan
Babes in Arms
The Bank Job
Battle for Haditha
Bad Day at Black Rock
Josephine Baker
Terry Jones's "The Barbarians"
Battle of Algiers
Battle of Stalingrad in film and history
Before the Fall
Before the Storm
Ingmar Bergman 1918-2007
Beyond Belief
The Big Clock
The Big One
Black Book
Black Girl
Black is...Black ain't; Adam Clayton Powell
Blair Witch Project
Blast of Silence
Blessed by Fire
Blind Shaft
The Blood of My Brother
A Bloody Aria
Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story
Borat
Bright Leaves
Brokeback Mountain
Brother
Brute Force
Bubble
Buffalo Boy
Bukowski: Born Into This
Burning the Future
Bus 174
Cargo 200; My Mexican Shivah
Carla's Song
Camden 28
Documentaries on Canada and Primo Levi
Cast Away
Canary
Cats of Mirikitani
Cautiva; The Monastery
Central Station
Le Cercle Rouge
Steven Soderbergh's "Che"
Chicanos and Communists in 2 1950s films
Two Chinese genre films
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Cinderella Man
L'Chayim Comrade Stalin
City of God24 City
Alan Clarke in retrospect
Climates
La Commune
Constant Gardner
Constantine's Sword
Contempt
Cousin Bette
Counsellor at Law
Crane World
Crash
Crimson Gold
Crossing the Bridge: the Sounds of Istanbul
Cult of the Suicide Bomber
The Dhamma Brothers
Dark Days
Daughter of Keltoum
Day The Earth Stood Still
Days of Glory
Dead or Alive
The Death of Mr. Lazarescu
The Departed
The Deserted Village
The Devil's Miner
Desk Set
Distant (Uzak)
Dog Days
The Downfall
The Edge of Heaven
Edgy young film-makers with a reactionary message
The Eel
Eight Miles High
Elephant
Emerald Forest
The Empire in Africa
The End of Poverty?
Examined Life
Exile in Buyukada
Factotum
Far From Heaven
La Faute a Voltaire
Fifth Day of Peace
Fire Down Below
A Flock of Dodos
Following Sean
Forbidden Lie$
Force of Evil
Four Days in September
Four Days, Three Weeks, Two Days
Four recent films from Argentina
Four mainstream films in 2006
Four more mainstream films in 2006
Four Documentary Shorts
Al Franken: God Spoke
Fratricide
Two French films of note
Frida
Frost/Nixon
Full Battle Rattle
The Future of Food
Gadjo Dilo
Genesis
Giuliani Time
God's Children
Go For Zucker
Gone With the Wind
Good Bye, Lenin
Grine Felder
The Grizzly Man
The Ground Truth
Guerrilla: the Taking of Patty Hearst
Guest of Cindy Sherman
Gypsy Caravan
Happiness
Happiness of the Katakuris
Heading South
Hearts and Minds; FTA
Heavy Metal in Baghdad
Hell's Ground and Turkish Star Wars
Hero
Hiding and Seeking
Hit Men Movies
Hitler's Hit Parade
The Hoax
Two films with Danny Hoch
The Hollow City
Holy Modal Rounders...Born to Lose
Hong Kong and Japanese films from NYAFF 2007
Horns and Halos
The Host
Hotel Rwanda
Howard Zinn: You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train
Human Resources
Hunger
I Don't Want to Sleep Alone
I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With
An Inconvenient Truth
Independence Day
In My Country
In the Pit
Inside North Korea: two documentaries
Into the Wild
Iraq for Sale
Iron Giant
I Hate Sao Paulo
James's Journey to Jerusalem
Jerichow
Jesus Camp
Journey to the Sun
Justice
Kabei: Our Mother
Kadosh
Two post-Katrina documentaries
Knocked Up and Idiocracy
Akira Kurosawa
Lady Chatterley
Lagerfeld Confidential
Lamerica
La Ciudad
Lagaan
Land of the Dead
The Last Bolshevik
The Last Winter
Late Bloomer; Spinning into Butter
Lion of the Desert
Little Miss Sunshine
Lord of the Flies
Lost Boys of the Sudan
La Promesse
Dances with Camels: the true story of Lawrence of Arabia
Legend of Drunken Master
Life and Debt
Live-In Maid
Lockdown, USA
Lonely Are The Brave
Loose Change
Love, Ludlow
Lumumba
Magnolia Blossom (6 worthy movies)
Making of; 9 Star Hotel
The Male Animal
Man Without a Past
Man with the movie camera
Mandabi
Ernest Mandel
Man Push Cart
Manufactured Landscapes
March of the Penguins
Metropolis
Michael Clayton
Mifune
A Mighty Heart
A Critical Look at Michael Moore
Movies and Madness
Maria Full of Grace
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
Match Point
May 6th
McLibel
Meeting Resistance
Memories of Tomorrow
Merry Christmas
Mr. Deeds
Minority Report
The Missing Gun
Mission to Moscow
Mondovino
Mongol
Mongolian Ping Pong
Moolaade
The Motorcycle Diaries
In Search of Mozart
Munich
My Name is Joe
My Country, My Country
Nazarin
Nada+
The New Country
Night Shift
No End in Sight
No Country for Old MenNo Country for Old Men: a follow-up
No Regret
North Korean movies
Not One Less
Oblivion
Obscene
Anita O'Day documentary
Odds Against Tomorrow
Offshore; Food, Inc.
One Nite in Mongkok
Operation Last Patrol
Operation Filmmaker
Orchestra of Piazza Vittorio
Orthodox Stance
Other Side of the Street
Otomo
Our Daily Bread (1934 King Vidor film)
Out of Place
The Outskirts
Overnight
Palestine and Israel in film
Pan's Labyrinth
Peacock
A Man Named Pearl
People Say I'm Crazy
Peppermint_Candy
Pitfall
Plagues and Pleasures on the Salton Sea
Power Trip
Pride & Prejudice
Princess Mononoke
Protagonist
The Pusher Trilogy
The Queen
The Quiet American
Quilombo Country
Rabbit-Proof Fence
Radiant City; The Unforeseen
Raining Stones
The Rape of Europa
Ratatouille
The Real McCain
Red Hollywood
Red Bear
Rebels With a Cause
Remarkably Korean: from Diasporas to the Heart of Buddhism
Requiem for a Dream
Rescue Dawh
Restless Conscience: Resistance to Hitler in Nazi Germany
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
Revolutionary Road
The Rider Named Death
Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles
Riding the Rails
Rififi
The Rising
The Road to Guantanamo
Rosenstrasse
On the Rumba River
Sacco and Vanzetti
Safe Conduct
Save the Green Planet
Saving Private Ryan
Scandalize My Name
Schizo
Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus
Ousmane Sembene
Sergeant Shakespeare
Shattered Glass
A guide to G.B. Shaw on home video
Sherman's March
Shopgirl A Voyage of Dmitri Shostakovich Sicko
The Sierra Leone Refugee All Stars Sir! No Sir!
Six Days
Slumdog Millionaire
A second look at Slumdog Millionaire
Small Soldiers
Smoke Signals
Solitary Fracture
Sophie Scholl and The White Rose
The Sorrow and the Pity
Stagedoor
Startup.com and E.Dreams
Still Life
Strawberry and Chocolate
Super Size Me
Synecdoche, New York
Syriana
Take Out
Taking Father Home
Tender Comrades, interviews with blacklisted film industry figures by Paul Buhle
A Tale of Two Sisters
Ten Canoes
Terra Trema
Three Seasons
The films of Beat Takeshi
There Was a Lad
The Take
An Emmett Till documentary
Three scary future movies
Three Monkeys
Ticket to Jerusalem
Time Out
'Tis Autumn: the search for Jackie Paris
Topsy-Turvy
Traffic/Traffik
Trumbo
Notes on Turkish film
Two Turkish films from 2006
Two Turkish films from 2007
Twilight Samurai
Two Sisters
2007 Film Notes
2007 Film Notes, conclusion
Umberto D.
Unmade Beds
University of Laughs
Unborn in the USA
An Unreasonable Man: Ralph Nader Documentary
Valentin
Vanaja
Wall
Wall-E
The Waiting List
War of the Worlds
War Made Easy
The War Tapes
Water
Waterworld
The Weather Underground
We are Together
Weekend
The Story of the Weeping Camel
Welcome to Sarajevo
Wendy and Lucy
Whispers and Lies
Whale Rider
Whisky
Who Killed the Electric Car?
Widow of St. Pierre
The Wide Blue Road
The Wind that Shakes the Barley
Without a Trace
Without the King
Wonders are Many
Woody Allen and jazz
Woman of the Year
Xala
Yang Ban Xi
Yoji Yamada's Samurai Trilogy
Yella
Yiddish Theater: a love story
"Yippee: A Journey to Jewish Joy"; "Trembling Before G-d"
Young and Restless in China
The Blind Swordsman Zatoichi
Zebraman
Zulu