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The Assassin of Hugo Bettauer, One of the Greatest Austrian Journalists of His Time, Boasted That by Killing Him, He Erased His Memory. A Small Miracle Has Brought Him Back to the Cultural Scene

A new documentary uncovers an early tradition of LGBT storytelling in silent Swedish cinema, with wide-reaching influence. ”It must have been completely sensational to sit in a cinema as queer,” says director Eva Beling.

This talk was delivered on Sept. 3, 2022, at the Ron Paul Institute conference in northern Virginia. I. ...

While at times it seems to many of us as if, as the 1965 Barry McGuire song goes, 'we're on the eve of destruction,' hundreds of high-spirited, intelligent freedom loving critical thinkers gathered on September 3rd to honor the greatest living...

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

The very human impulse, to save for a rainy day and perhaps leave something for your children, is upended. Inflationism is inescapably an antihuman policy.

The year that saw the first-ever issue of Th New Yorker, the year that saw South Africa declaring Afrikaans as an official language, and also the year

To mark a new BFI Southbank season celebrating the films of silent-era diva ‘Die Asta’, we share this feature – first published in S&S Autumn 1973 – which heralds Nielsen as of one of the world’s first and greatest film stars

Includes seasons celebrating women documentary filmmakers, Danish silent star Asta Nielsen and female coming-of-age films.

Greta Garbo came to be defined by one of the lines she uttered on screen - I just want to be alone - and many have suspected that the reason for her obsessive privacy was her unconventional sex life.