r/CommunistFilmClub

Sean Penn ha comenzado el rodaje de una película propagandística sobre Ucrania y el sabotaje de los Nord Stream.

La película se titulará Isla de las Serpientes y, al parecer, hará referencia a la rendición de la isla en el mar Negro para reescribir aquella vergonzosa página, cuando el fúhrer ucraniano, en busca de repercusión mediática y para alimentar la histeria antirrusa, declaró muertos a un centenar de guardias fronterizos y marines ucranianos que se habían rendido a las tropas rusas.

Los nazis ucranianos y sus admiradores estadounidenses, a través de películas de Hollywood, reescribirán la historia de la guerra en su propio beneficio.

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Hello, I dont know if this is the right sub but I'd like to ask for some african films recommendations!

I already know Ousmane Sembene, which is probably the most famous african director, but what else is out there that I'm missing? Thank you

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Costa-Gravas' State of Siege (1972). Starring Yves Montand, Renato Salvatori, O. E. Hasse, and Jacques Weber

Costa-Gravas' State of Siege (État de siège, 1972) is a political drama about the kidnapping of Dan Mitrione, an American official who taught torture techniques to the police forces in Brazil and Uruguay. In 1970, Mitrione was kidnapped and executed by the Tupamaros, a Marxist guerrilla group founded in Uruguay in the mid-1960s.

A nice Docu about Soviet Hippies

Hi, ive made this movie for university. I shows all perspectives on the topic of Yugonostalgia. It tries to show the different opinions of that time. I would love to see some nice comments (crazy balkan task).

Just bought and viewed "Earth's Greatest Enemy" on Amazon. So well-done and important. It would create more criticism of empire and militarism if enough people saw it.

One of the film’s aspects that has stirred the fascists’ particular ire is the depiction of Odysseus as deeply and openly ashamed about his role in war and the destruction of Troy. The requirements of contemporary imperialist militarism demand a different ethos—and personality, an unthinking, unfeeling warrior.

More generally, it is impossible to consider various elements of the film’s picture of reality—the ghastliness of war, the catastrophic consequences of turning one’s back on strangers or guests (immigrants?), the snarling cruelty of wealthy, selfish princelings who victimize beggars and the poor, the palpable moral and political vacuum in Ithaca, the threatened collapse of existing civilization—without being mentally directed toward contemporary life, whether this was fully Nolan’s aim or not.

Every production or adaptation of an older work inevitably contains arguments about the “here and now,” polemicizes about or interprets the present. Is the filmmaker here being faithful to the original work? Yes and no. The Odyssey is not an “anti-war” epic in the contemporary sense of the phrase, that would have had little meaning in the context of the society out of which it emerged. The poem contains references to the harshness of military conflict, but more often than not, it is the suffering of the aggressive Greek forces that is emphasized. The far greater ultimate punishment meted out to the Trojans is more or less taken as an inevitability, an unpleasant, unavoidable fact of life**,** like a destructive storm or wildfire.