RITA DI SANTO draws attention to a new film that features Ken Loach and Jeremy Corbyn, and their personal experience of media misrepresentation
Film round-up: June 25, 2020
Reviews of On the Record, Ride Like a Girl, The Booksellers, Just Don't Think I'll Scream and The Spy
JULIA TOPPIN recommends Patti Smith’s eloquent memoir that wrestles with the beauty and sorrow of a lifetime
MARJORIE MAYO welcomes an account of family life after Oscar Wilde, a cathartic exercise, written by his grandson
KEN COCKBURN guides us through a survey of Chekov’s early short fiction, and the groundwork it laid for his later masterpieces
ANDY HEDGECOCK revels in a hugely enjoyable but deadly serious examination of the 1930s, that is an indictment of our own era
The bard distills our hellish times into fiery words
On the Record (15)
Directed by Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering
★★★★★
IN THE MeToo era, which seems to have been defined by Harvey Weinstein and his white female victims, what is the cost of coming forward for women of colour who have also suffered abuse, sexism and misogyny, in this instance at the hands of powerful and wealthy black men?
That is the eye-opening and searing question explored in Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering's third film in their trilogy of groundbreaking documentaries on sexual assault, first in the US military and then on college campuses.
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