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The article explores the history of film criticism. It compares literary criticism and film criticism. It describes the work of Leavisite film critic Robin Wood during the 1960s and 1970s, as well as his contributions to the bimonthly magazine "Film Comment." It discusses the decline of magazines of film criticism and the shift of some to online publication.

The article focuses on Gen-X filmmakers and stars, including reflections on middle age and handling aging. Topics include Nicole Holofcener's portrayal of upper-middle-class anomie in her latest film, "You Hurt My Feelings," the evolution of film and television in the digital age, and Arnold Schwarzenegger's podcast and recent public statements.

The article primarily discusses filmmaker Paul Schrader and his latest film, "The Master Gardener" (2022), drawing parallels between the film and Schrader's previous work, particularly "Taxi Driver." It delves into Schrader's religious influences and the moral questions raised by his films. It briefly touches on the recent Sight and Sound "Greatest Films of All Time" poll and the importance of such lists in the world of film criticism.

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This article discusses the 1933 translation by Risteárd Ó Foghludha of Louis Hémon’s 1916 novel, Maria Chapdelaine, in the context of early attempts on the part of An Gúm, a branch of the Irish Department of Education, to build a readership in Irish partially via the translation of literary classics from around the world into the Irish language. Key considerations here are arguments about typeface, the use of neologisms and dialectal expressions, and contemporary interventions into the standardisation of Irish, such as caint na ndaoine (‘speech of the people’) and An Caighdeán Oifigiúil (‘The Official Standard’). The 1933 text is also interesting for the ways in which it illustrates certain aspects of recent work in translation theory in both French and Irish. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Survey of London: Whitechapel: 2 vols. The Survey has now turned its attention to perhaps London's most notorious parish, Whitechapel. Guillery suggests that immigration from overseas has shaped Whitechapel more and for longer than any other part of London, and he is surely right (10). [Extracted from the article]

Prompted by two recent articles in European Review about the place of Islam in Europe, this article argues for the importance of considering the variants of Islam in Europe that are autochthonous as opposed to connected with migration or immigration. The article discusses the specifics of the Crimean Tatars, Bosnia, Kosovo and Albania, and the Muslims of Georgia by way of illustrating how the issues around European Islam are far from being a marginal curiosity and, in fact, point to key issues in continental culture and politics in the twenty-first century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reflects on the works of Fleur Jaeggy, a Swiss-Italian author, multilingual, and resident of Milan in world literature. Topics include preoccupation with the highly structured society of Switzerlandand discussion on the complexity of different levels of language via two translations, one by Nancy Huston and the by Milan Kundera.

This article examines the curious English-language life of Alain Finkielkraut's 1987 book La Défaite de la pensée. Uniquely in his corpus and very unusually for contemporary philosophy, this work exists in two different English translations: Dennis O'Keeffe's The Undoing of Thought (1988) and Judith Friedlander's The Defeat of the Mind (1995). O'Keeffe's work was an effort to secure a place for Finkielkraut in discourse of Anglo-American conservatism, whereas Friedlander was far more invested in recovering Finkielkraut as a student of Levinas and as an heir to a certain kind of French Jewish intellectual community. What these different translations show us today is the folly of ascribing an Anglo-American "left-right" dichotomy to French intellectual debate, something that holds just as true for Finkielkraut's most recent writing, including his recent collections of actualités such as L'Identité malheureuse (2013) and La Seule Exactitude (2015). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines the curious English-language life of Alain Finkielkraut's 1987 book La Défaite de la pensée. Uniquely in his corpus and very unusually for contemporary philosophy, this work exists in two different English translations: Dennis O'Keeffe's The Undoing of Thought (1988) and Judith Friedlander's The Defeat of the Mind (1995). O'Keeffe's work was an effort to secure a place for Finkielkraut in discourse of Anglo-American conservatism, whereas Friedlander was far more invested in recovering Finkielkraut as a student of Levinas and as an heir to a certain kind of French Jewish intellectual community. What these different translations show us today is the folly of ascribing an Anglo-American "left-right" dichotomy to French intellectual debate, something that holds just as true for Finkielkraut's most recent writing, including his recent collections of actualités such as L'Identité malheureuse (2013) and La Seule Exactitude (2015). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article examines the relationship of poet Pier Paolo Pasolini with Iberian translation and Catalan literature and culture to discuss topics like translations, minority languages and internationalism. Other topics include the anarchic spirit and vague libertinism of films like "Mamma Roma" and "Accattone," as well as Pasolini's views on culture and language.

The article discusses filmmaker Steve McQueen's film "Small Axe" which described as an "anthology". Topics discussed include focus on Black cultural history that ran from Africa to Europe to the Caribbean and North America; informaiton on Rati Oneli's poetic environmental documentary City of the Sun; and information on Georgian cinema of the post-independence period.

The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly impacted society. Vulnerable populations are at heightened risk for exposure, as well as adverse health and social consequences. Policymakers are operating under difficult circumstances, making crucial policy decisions to maximize impact and mitigate harm, with limited scientific evidence. This article examines the pronounced vulnerability of Indigenous Peoples in Canada to the pandemic. We highlight the importance of moving beyond individual-level risk factors associated with COVID-19 by identifying and classifying Indigenous communities most vulnerable to the pandemic. We propose the use of a social diagnostic tool, the Community Well-Being Index, rooted in the social determinants of health, to predict community vulnerability and potentially guide policy decision-making in the fight against COVID-19. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on life and career of literary critic George Steiner. Topics discussed include Steiner's career focused on mixture of the cutting edge of science and a classical formation; information on book "After Babel: Aspects of Language and Translation"; and his relationship with the University of Cambridge.

By the outbreak of the Second World War, anxieties over the great size of London and its assumed destructive impact on the rest of the nation had reached a crisis point. The metropolitan economic boom that followed swiftly on the end of the First World War led to an extraordinary growth of population and industry in the capital, especially in the 1930s. By the end of that decade one in five of the people of England and Wales was a Londoner, living somewhere within the boundaries of Greater London, as defined by the Metropolitan Police District. For many public policy-makers, this growth was not just draining the rest of the nation of its talent; it was directly causing disinvestment in the Distressed Areas of Northern England, Wales and Scotland. It was Neville Chamberlain, long a critic of London's overgrowth and a convinced advocate of satellite towns and garden cities, who laid the national policy basis for at last solving the London problem with the Barlow Commission on the Distribution of the Industrial Population, reporting in 1940. In alliance with the town and country planning movement, with the nation's most famous planner-architect Patrick Abercrombie, and with a consensus of opinion that was especially strong on the centre-left of national and London politics, a planning framework was established for the post-war capital in two ambitious plans for the County of London and for the Greater London area. The war, with its assertion of a new national unity embracing the notion of planning in all walks of life but especially in the reconstruction of the bombed cities, produced a receptive climate to planning interventions in the future of London. But there were unintended consequences. It is arguable that the London Plans of 1943–44, and the Government planning policy of 1946 that followed their lead, would help produce nearly forty years of metropolitan decline that only began to end in the second half of the 1980s. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article examines the emergence of the philosophical views of the French philosopher and activist Simone Weil in North America which began in 1945. Topics covered include the influence Weil has had on Canadian philosopher George Grant's critique of technological modernity, a brief background of Weil's participation in the radical life of the late Third Republic, and several literary works on Weil's philosophy.

The article presents Tbilisi International Film Festival would feature a program of canadian cinema, supported by funds connected to Canada 150 and to the fiftieth anniversary of Telefilm Canada. Including archives attached to the state-owned television station, the documentary film studio and the georgian film studio.

The article offers criticism of the film "Zimna wojna" ("Cold War"), directed by Pawel Pawlikoski, starring Tomasz Kot. Topics include Pawlikowski's portrayal of politician Vladimir Zhironovsky in the film "Tripping with Zhirinovsky," his portrayal of politician Radovan Karadžić in the film "Serbian Epics," and the relation of "Zimna wojna" to Polish nationalism.

Remembrance highlights the possibilities of a modest commercial cinema that prioritizes craftsmanship and focus. This has special importance in Canadian and Quebec cinema, and Remembrance's afterlife as the three-season Canadian TV show X-Company raises important questions about the flourishing of small national cinemas in a globalized age. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article reads contemporary Catalan nationalist discourse through the lens of Tom Nairn's polemical classic The Break-Up of Britain. First published in 1977, that text presents key issues for understanding contemporary Catalonia. The first is the emergence of a national sentiment that is separate from that of anti-colonialism because it is characterized by a higher level of economic development than the place it is seeking to break from, but is the repository of a legitimate claim to self-determination. That is how Nairn sees the Northern Ireland–Éire relationship, and that is a good analogy for Spain–Catalonia. The second is the tension between what he sees as 'indifferent', that is to say strictly civic-political nationalism and a more linguistically or culturally-driven nationalism. This is also a key tension in Catalonia, where immigration has transformed the national movement towards an interculturalist ideology and a de facto bilingualism (with Catalan and Spanish) remains a key but strategically unacknowledged element of that movement. The third aspect of Break-Up , and the synthesis of the comparison, is the importance of federalism, which is key for Nairn in seeing a way forward for the constituent countries of the UK and long a crucial, if not the crucial, political element of catalanisme. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An introduction is presented which discusses various kinds of minor cinema and role played by Paul Willemen in such cinema.

The article presents a report from the 18th Tbilisi International Film Festival in Tbilisi, Georgia in December 2017 and discusses motion pictures played there including "Sashishi deda" by Ana Urushadze, Merab Kokochashvili's "Didi mtsvane veli", and "Chemi bednieri ojakhi" directed by Nana Ekvtimishvili and Simon Groß.

Few institutionalized examples exist wherein Indigenous communities have participated in the co-development of ethics initiatives. This article explores one such process--the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU). A MOU is a document created between institutional and community research partners to outline project guidelines. Based on Canadian MOUs developed between 1980 and 2016, this research has four objectives; (a) to describe current trends of MOU use and recognition in research; (b) to describe the challenges of collaborative research and how MOUs might mitigate them; (c) to understand if a standard MOU is feasible; and (d) to offer policy suggesting for implementing MOUs. Local MOUs mark a way for engaging in good research practices that actually benefit the involved community. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

War and its aftermath have affected in important ways the history of London and its people over the past three centuries. Patterns are distorted because of the predominance of war in London’s eighteenth century, its relative insignificance for much of the nineteenth century, and then its shattering impact during the two great wars of the twentieth century. Even so, some patterns are discernible: the relative economic buoyancy of wartime full employment and the resulting slump when war ends; a hastening of immigration as continental disruption brings refugees to London; metropolitan xenophobia as enemies are demonised; interruptions of the building cycle, leading to the temporary disruption of London’s growth or renewal, followed by a burst of development soon after. In all of this, the conjuncture of events, the politics of the time and the precise nature of the wars involved, all mark the uniqueness of each event, while recognising that wars produce shockwaves for London and its people whenever they occur. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article discusses aspects of the 2017 superhero film "Wonder Woman" directed by Patty Jenkins and starring Gal Gadot. The author is critical on the feminist aspect of articles in both the print and online edition of "The Forward" newspaper, which he says mostly featured the question of whether Gadot can be considered white given her Israeli or Jewish background. He also says that the setting in World War I is one of the oddest aspects of the film.

The article discusses the 69th Festival del Film in Locarno, Switzerland from August 3-13, 2016, which featured the films "Jason Bourne" directed by Paul Greengrass, "According to Me" directed by Pavel Cuzuioc, and "Communion" directed by Anna Zamecka.

This article outlines the relationship between London and the First World War. The metropolitan dimension of total war is an emerging field of research at the intersection of military history and urban studies. The article (and special issue) aims to set out an agenda for historians of war/the city. While it is true that what happened at the ‘home front’ generally occurred in the capital city too, the London experience of the Great War was in many respects distinctive. The nerve centre of both the national and imperial war effort, the metropolis was the site of heightened anticipation, dense experience and concentrated commemoration. For London, the First World War proved an accelerator and incubator of socio-cultural change. Even so, London's stability vis-à-vis other imperial capitals was remarkable. The true impact of the war and its legacy can only be gauged by contrasting it with the state of London around 1914. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The impact of the First World War on London has long been unduly overshadowed by the war that came after. In fact, the years 1914–1918 proved transformative for the future direction of both London and the Londoners. The unprecedented employment prospects of the war years revolutionized the working lives and living standards of the London poor. The metropolis expanded to accommodate new industrial areas that formed the nucleus of London's suburban development in the interwar years. As part of that, the war ensured that the economic fortunes of West London would be tied to the aeroplane, quickly adapted for civilian uses once hostilities ceased. This wartime capital, which depended so heavily on women's labour to oil the machinery of government and of munitions manufacture, would never lose its dependence on women in the new industries that emerged from the economy of total war. And the experience of London's workers during the war began a tendency that altered for generations their political alignment; the Labour Party in London continues to reap the harvest sown during the First World War. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

On October 1st, an exceptionally talented and important Indigenous artist passed away at the age of 97: Daphne Odjig. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses film festivals including the Toronto International Film Festival in Toronto, Ontario, the Atlantic Film Festival in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and the Cannes Film Festival in France.