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The Young Karl Marx 2017
Precisely what I was looking for in a Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels feature film biopic, nothing less, nothing more. Surprised if anything that it took until Raoul Peck in 2017 for the first such film to be made.
Addresses all the major debates within the "socialistic" Left of the 1840s, leading up to the writing of the Communist Manifesto - but never in any serious depth. Peck does however capture very well the gravitas of the crisis of the…
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The Insider 1999
"The Insider", a film made by washed-up 60s/70s radicals, about post-Watergate wannabe muckrakers, celebrates the (TV) journalist as hero, out for a final hurrah before the inevitable ‘pink slip’ by restructuring legacy corpo-news outlets. Perhaps the quintessential 90s film, forged from Clintonian neoliberalism, that chimerical alliance of old 60s/70s Marcuse radicals turned corporate types (Lowell Bergman) & Southern Democrats, ashamed of domestic apartheid, now turned into 'nullification crisis state righters' ("This is not North Carolina, not South Carolina, nor Kentucky, *this…
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Pharaoh 1966
They do not make historical films like this anymore - truly epic in scale, as it should be, with enough faithfulness to historical accuracy, without it being simply superficial stuffing (*cough* Scott’s Napoleon *cough*). Where else are you going to find a film shot in the original ancient Egyptian temples and in the beautiful vistas of the Kyzyl Kum with the volunteer army of the Uzbek SSR as extras?
Early Iron Age deep state political drama, what’s not to love?…
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Come and See 1985
Eyes are the windows to the soul, and so much of what makes this film great is Klimov's usage of the human gaze, windows to unending trauma (captured so well through the young Aleksei Kravchenko). Mesmerising cinematography. Without a doubt one of the greatest WW2 films ever made. Klimov doesn't overly valorise the fighters of war, so much as to castigate its wanton destruction and pointlessness, verging on the apolitical.
Creative usage of ambient sound to create suspense without seeing…
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