New releases from The Orb, Meredith Monk, and Marconi Union
Something might come of Nothing
MARIA DUARTE sees an unusual film about the class consciousness that develops among a group of Lisbon workers faced with the destruction of their livelihoods
RITA DI SANTO draws attention to a new film that features Ken Loach and Jeremy Corbyn, and their personal experience of media misrepresentation
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
The Nothing Factory
Directed by Pedro Pinho
IN THE Nothing Factory, a group of Portuguese workers stage their own mini-revolt in a fight to stop their lift factory from closing and save their jobs in what's a surreal portrait of work in modern times.
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