News from Ideological Antiquity Marx Eisenstein The Capital

Alexander Kluges News from Ideological Antiquity begins with Russian filmmaker Sergei Eisensteins ambitious but unrealized plan to combine Karl Marxs Capital and James Joyces Ulysses For over nine hours the film expands in concentric circles as Kluge his guests interlocutors and monologists make associative links on a range of topics that starts from a filmic discussion of Eisensteins notes