Posts tagged George Orwell

Found this, whilst rummaging around in the free movie section of YouTube. Ken Loach’s Land and Freedom (1995), about the Spanish Civil War, loosely inspired by George Orwell’s Homage to Catalonia (1938). It’s as powerful and as heartfelt as filmmaking gets, in my honest opinion.

Out Of This World: Science Fiction But Not As You Know It, British Library, review - Telegraph

This is awesome, you should go:

The British Library’s latest exhibition, Out Of This World: Science Fiction But Not As You Know It, challenges the notion that sci-fi is restricted to fanboys. In displaying an extraordinary number of seminal and unexpected texts it reminds us that pigeon-holing this fiction is both incorrect and a shame. Fiction is fantasy in its very nature, science fiction just takes it a little further off-piste. Plus, authors such as HG Wells, George Orwell, Margaret Atwood, Kazuo Ishiguro and JG Ballard have been key players in the genre. Rule out sci-fi and you rule out their work.

There’s lots to savour and enjoy here - original manuscripts, archive audio and videos, full-size martian tripod sculptures. Definitely worth a visit.

We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine gun.
George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier (1937)

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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, and disregard of all the rules.
George Orwell, Shooting an Elephant (1950)
Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.
George Orwell, Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1936)