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Red Cinema Adelaide

Locality: Adelaide, South Australia

Address: Lvl 2, 93 Rundle Mall 5000 Adelaide, SA, Australia

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25.01.2022 Deserves it! The film is freaking amazing and has a very well thought-out depiction of class inequality.

18.01.2022 Screening of "The Square" today at 1pm will be happening on the Socialist Alternative Discord server in the red-cinema channel: (https://discord.gg/wxXBwF)|

14.01.2022 Tuesday at 4! https://www.facebook.com/events/622976615206098/ Vale Kirk Douglas, slayer of the anti-communist blacklist! During the Red Scare of the late 1940s and 1950s communists and left-wingers were dragged before the House of Unamerican Activities (HUAC), this commonly resulted in being fired from their job and having their life ruined. Hollywood, as part of this, created a blacklist of actors, producers, screenwriters and others; barring them from work and recognition ...due to their communist or socialist sympathies. Dalton Trumbo, the outspoken communist screenwriter and unionist was one of those blacklisted. He had been writing under pseudonym for years and his political alignment was an open secret. In 1960 he wrote the adaptation of Spartacus. Directed by Stanley Kubrick with Kirk Douglas in the starring role. Nearing the end of production Douglas insisted that Trumbo, who had fallen victim to blacklisting, have his name appear in the credits, he said that if Trumbo’s name was not on the film then neither would his. This forced the production company’s hand, they ran the film and credited Dalton Trumbo with it’s screenplay. This courageous act by Douglas played a singular role in breaking the Hollywood Blacklist and dealing a blow to McCarthyism. It is poetic that it would be the story of Spartacus that would do this. Spartacus was Karl Marx’s favourite historical rebel. The leader of the largest slave revolt in the Roman Republic, rebels who despite their courage met a bloody end. Come and celebrate a film and a life that have played a decisive role in film and political history. $5 entry to the film.

13.01.2022 This article is a juicy read that navigates through Bong Joon-ho's approach to making films and through his life and the political currents that have shaped his views. [And thanks to the wonderful Liam Ward who originally shared this story.]

09.01.2022 Next Week (24th April) With Babies and Banners: Documentary on the Women's Auxiliary Brigade in the Flint Sit-Down Strike. In the depths of the great depression autoworkers in Flint, Michigan struggle to against General Motors to form a Union, women workers and the wives and daughters of male workers join in that fight.

09.01.2022 "A master of social realism, Loach avoids both spurious romanticism and propagandistic didacticism. His films present the indissoluble connection between the subjective inner turmoil of the individual and the objective political struggles of the community. Ricky and Abbie represent the lives of millions of UK workers post-GFC. Having lost everything, their only concession is the newfound freedom to be their own boss. This supposed win-win scenario for both worker and employ...er is exposed as the same old one-sided exploitative relationship. The only difference is that employers gain maximum flexibility without having to provide a minimum wage, unemployment insurance, overtime, family and medical leave, disability insurance, collective bargaining rights or any compensation for injuries or expenses accrued during a day’s work." -- PSA: This is screening in Adelaide at the moment everyone.

07.01.2022 Red Cinema is back next week!