Movies
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The Greatest Piece of Communist Art: Chicken Run
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I really enjoyed this analysis of Chicken Run. Vimeo link
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Anyone on Letterboxd?
just made a profile a couple of months ago, would love to follow comrades on there.
https://letterboxd.com/eisensteinium/
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Any lefty movie suggestions?
I have a few movies I wanna watch that are vaguely lefty. BUT, western movies rarely have good things to say or portray about leftist societies. A few that come to mind to watch are Goodbye Lenin, The Trotsky and Reds. Idk if these are critical of leftists or not but why not watch them and review them at a later point. I watched Red Dawn recently and man I had a lot to say about it. I guess part of what I’m saying is, is this community dying or not, bc if not I’d be willing to do weekly or biweekly movie reviews(biweekly as in, twice a week, not to be confused with the word biweekly meaning once every two weeks,English is confusing lol) if this community is dead, then I guess I’ll find out one way or another🤣 BTW: not to advertise or anything cringe but I like using the JustWatch app for keeping track of my watchlist and seeing where to watch these for free depending on which app or service has it or not, worst case scenario a friend TOTALLY DOESN’T PIRATE IT for me and I “find out a way to watch it quick”
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Lion of the Desert, my favorite film of all time
yewtu.be Lion of the Desert (1981) HD - Anthony Quinn as Omar MukhtarPlot In 1929, Italian Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini (Rod Steiger) is still faced with the 20-year-long war waged by patriots in the Italian colony of Libya to combat Italian colonization and the establishment of "The Fourth Shore"—the rebirth of a Roman Empire in Africa. Mussolini appoints Gener...
(Mirrors.)
This is the story of the late Omar Mukhtar, an elderly rebel who spent the last two decades of his life struggling against European colonialism and specifically Italian Fascism in Libya. Note that some of the characters in this dramatization (like Sandrini) are fictional, but almost certainly had numerous real‐life analogues.
As long as you can tolerate depictions of warfare, there is no better gift that you could give me than merely watching this film. I cannot recommend it highly enough.
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Just recommending these movies
They're my favorite of all time, they take place in the Soviet Union post-Great Patriotic War, they follow the "Gangster Fighting Division" (not great translations being honest) of the Moscow police. The main enemies of the films are gangsters in general, though mainly it's focused around two things, the murderer of a woman, and the gang the "Black Cat" (черная кошка.) They are very revealing of Soviet society as well. The ex-soldier Sharapov asks if they could interrogate a presumed gangster, but they laugh as you are only they were only allowed to interrogate proven criminals. It also reveals how everyone was drafted during the war and people are still recovering though living a happy life. (Ex: the female police Sharapov officer meets while handling a case with a baby in the second film.) Over all really love them, watch them!
- www.polygon.com The Indian action epic RRR finds the universal thrills in revolution
Baahubali series director S.S. Rajamouli gives two historical freedom fighters the epic superpowers they deserve
Sounds like one of those stupid dorky and "meme-y" movies that I might like despite all the cliche dumb nonsense mentioned here (actually, a lot of what's mentioned here is normally off-putting, but I feel like I need something that I can't take seriously or that I find to be "light" entertainment).
Idk. We'll see.