Nèdeem Elmahjoub's blog

Showcasing the Best of Working-Class Cinema

 The Good Lord Bird

Ken Loach blames "fake left" politicians

"If we don't understand class struggle, we don't understand anything"

Film exposes London's sex industry underworld

The remarkable career of Rainer Werner Fassbinder

The Young Marx: film by Raul Peck The first film ever about Karl Marx

"... Look at  Moonlight  — it’s about being stigmatised, being gay and black and poor. Fassbinder was always interested in the lives of outsiders and immigrants from the very beginning. He showed how we are all under the tyranny of values that are not even our own.” The muse and the monster: Fassbinder's favourite star on surviving his abuse

Depth and substance vs shallowness

The ideology of the end of ideology Pontecorvo/Godard/Fassbinder

"La La Land is a film for our time. With our self-nurturing, self-promotion, clicktivism, Twitterstorms, sexts and selfies, we are all narcissists now." — David Cox, the Guardian

Three Films, a Spectator, and a Polemic

"If you're not angry, what kind of person are you?"  — Ken Laoch

Kiarostami and The Purge

Selection from previous shows - "The Myths of Zionism" by John Rose (May 2008) "Class and Sect in the Middle East" by Anne Alexander (Jan 2008) "Politics in the Cinemas of Hollywood and the Arab World" by Lina Khatib (August 2008)

Sunday between noon and 1pm on 104.4 FM (London) Or http://www.resonancefm.com/ (worldwide) A repeat: Lina Khatib to speak about Politics in the Cinemas of Hollywood and the Arab World . Today the world's media have a pressing need to understand and interpret the modern Middle East. In her book (released by I B Tauris on 27 September 2006) Khatib examines how contemporary American cinema and the cinemas of the Arab world contribute to this global preoccupation in their representations of Middle Eastern politics. The writer, a lecturer in world cinema, also uncovers the challenges presented by Arab cinemas to Hollywood's ways of representing Middle East politics. A repeat: Obituary : More celebrated abroad than in his own country, Yousssef Chahine tried every film genre, from historical epic to musical comedy. The Egyptian director, who died last Sunday, 27 July in Cairo, received the lifetime achievement award on the fiftieth anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival in 1997.

Wednesday between 9pm and 10pm (GMT) Sunday between noon and 1pm 104.4 FM (London) or http://www.resonancefm.com/ worldwide " Can Hamas Liberate Palestine ?". Views from the President of the British Muslim Initiative, the Jewish Socialist Group, Azzam Tamimi (historian and supporter of Hamas ), Gilbert Achcar, professor at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London... " If Stones Could Talk " by James Petras The Jewish Book Week : Spinoza and Secular Jewish Culture by Yirmiyahu Yovel, The $3 Trillion War by Joseph Stiglitz, The 1948 War by Benny Morris Women's Cinema from Tangiers to Tehran : Persepolis and Dunia Related: Bringing down the new Berlin Walls 11 Theses on the Resurgence of Islamic Fundamentalism Persepolis : "Bombs and Stars" Eastern Eyes