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Truth, memory and distortion

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Ben Lewis reviews Peter Watkins's (director) 'La Commune' 2000, DVD (first published in the Weekly Worker) La Commune Sitting through this film in its 345-minute entirety requires much coffee and many breaks. You will be thrust into the world of the 11th arrondissement in Paris 1871, to a world where seemingly eternal values are being turned on ...

Apathy or boredom?

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Ben Lewis reviews 'The Trotsky', Jacob Tierney (dir), Alliance Films (general release in Canada). Leon Bronstein, a young, privileged Canadian of about 17 and three-quarters, is not your average high school student. How could he be? How would you feel if, on reading Leon Trotsky’s biography My life, you realised that your life was ...