Leftist movies: s/d.

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It's a Wonderful Life*
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DESTROY:

Battleship Potemkin
Nuremberg Trials
What else???

*It's perhaps questionable whether these are really leftist.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 30 December 2005 13:16 (twenty years ago)

Search any- and everything by Chris Marker and the rest of the Left Bank collective. Especially because I haven't seen most of it.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, 30 December 2005 13:18 (twenty years ago)

left behind

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 30 December 2005 14:33 (twenty years ago)

last house on the left

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 30 December 2005 14:33 (twenty years ago)

my left foot

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 30 December 2005 14:33 (twenty years ago)

Grapes of Wrath is a good leftist movie, although the worst part of the whole movie is the leftist rant at the end.

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Friday, 30 December 2005 14:37 (twenty years ago)

Search: Bob Roberts

― phil d. (Phil D.), Friday, 30 December 2005 14:40 (twenty years ago)

Destroy: The Great Dictator (though maybe that's more syrupy liberal than leftist)

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 30 December 2005 15:29 (twenty years ago)

http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/history/lavender/graphics/salt.gif

― andy ---, Friday, 30 December 2005 17:34 (twenty years ago)

Cradle Will Rock?
Newsies?
Swing Kids?

― Jimmy Mod Is The Damnation (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Friday, 30 December 2005 17:40 (twenty years ago)

ihttp://www.jabootu.com/images/tbjbjposter6.jpg

― andy ---, Friday, 30 December 2005 19:44 (twenty years ago)

bowling for columbine

― Jeff-Beetle (Jeff), Friday, 30 December 2005 19:53 (twenty years ago)

Matewan
any John Sayles really.

― Rotgutt (Rotgutt), Friday, 30 December 2005 22:03 (twenty years ago)

"Z"

― Sparkle Motion's Rising Force, Friday, 30 December 2005 22:23 (twenty years ago)

dude, battleship potemkin ROCKS. shit, ANYTHING by eisenstein rocks. even though he was a commie!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 30 December 2005 22:35 (twenty years ago)

yeah, don't destroy that, wtf. strike! is awesome too.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Friday, 30 December 2005 22:49 (twenty years ago)

Battleship Potemkin is great. I like the bit where the crowd turns on the anti-semitic guy. Also the creepy priest is great.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Friday, 30 December 2005 22:51 (twenty years ago)

though "alexander nevsky" is arguably more a RIGHT-wing movie (all of that russian/eastern orthodox ultra-nationalism & stuff).

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 30 December 2005 22:52 (twenty years ago)

search: jfk
destroy: every other oliver stone film

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Friday, 30 December 2005 22:52 (twenty years ago)

same goes with the "ivan the terrible" films (more russian nationalism, general polish-/catholic-bashing).

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 30 December 2005 22:52 (twenty years ago)

what's the beef with the Kettlechip Potemkin. That PSB soundtrack is kickin

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Friday, 30 December 2005 22:57 (twenty years ago)

It's a Wonderful Life*

never seen it, but Frank Capra was a Reagan/Goldwater Republican

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 31 December 2005 15:59 (twenty years ago)

S: Three Kings.
D: Farenheit 9/11.

― chap who would dare to work for the man (chap), Saturday, 31 December 2005 16:04 (twenty years ago)

(to concur with gabbneb)

"Katharine Hepburn, his staunchly liberal leading lady in State Of The Union, was one of those who assumed that Capra was 'quite liberal'. But when told that he disliked FDR (whom she knew personally and greatly admired), Hepburn exclaimed, 'Oh, dear! Well, I think I sort of knew that. He certainly wasn't very left. I figured out pretty much what he was - an American of the old days. I don't think he was a party man in any violent sense. He was a very fair man. He believed in freedom. I think immigrants know more about what the country means than those of us who were born here and criticize it. Those of us who were born here, we tend to take it for granted. Capra's outlook was that of a fellow from Sicily coming into this country. That was his politics: 'pleased to be here.'"

[from Joseph McBride's excellent Frank Capra: The Catastrophe Of Success]

― i am not a nugget (stevie), Saturday, 31 December 2005 17:12 (twenty years ago)

Jimmy Stewart was also a Republican

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 31 December 2005 17:20 (twenty years ago)

search: all of the silent soviet montage films, especially the ones by Aleksandr Dovzhenko.

also search Godard's Weekend and frankly, most of his leftist films

― t0dd swiss (immobilisme), Saturday, 31 December 2005 19:13 (twenty years ago)

ten months pass...

Shall we expand this to movies made under the iron curtain that are getting reissued (or issued for the first time) on Second Run.

Here is the collecion. I picked up 'The red and the white' yesterday. So far, I've only read the interview in the accompanying booklet that didn't add up to much but what about the rest?

― xyzzzz__ (jdesouza), Thursday, 2 November 2006 10:18 (nineteen years ago)

Songs from the Second Floor

not leftist

― benrique (Enrique), Thursday, 2 November 2006 10:31 (nineteen years ago)

jancso as leftist is an interesting one. i really like his steez.

― benrique (Enrique), Thursday, 2 November 2006 10:33 (nineteen years ago)

Songs from the Second Floor
not leftist

Really? I see at as a left-wing critique of the degradation of the welfare state. How would you interpret it?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 2 November 2006 10:49 (nineteen years ago)

piss-boring jam rip-off?

it's not a critique whatever it is. there's not much in the way of politics going on. it's a series of frustrating events in a bleak-ass european town. iirc. i had no idea it was about the welfare state while watching it, mind you.

― benrique (Enrique), Thursday, 2 November 2006 10:53 (nineteen years ago)

battleship potemkin is aces

the edukators

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 2 November 2006 10:59 (nineteen years ago)

it's a series of frustrating events in a bleak-ass european town. iirc. i had no idea it was about the welfare state while watching it, mind you.

Oh, I think it's clearly about Sweden. Songs on the Second Floor is situated in the Nordic discussion on what happened to our welfare states after the depression of the early nineties (and the parallel rise of neoliberalism), though obviously the movie exaggerates these tendencies ad absurdum. But maybe this is not so clear if you're not from here.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 2 November 2006 11:30 (nineteen years ago)

there have been satires on the british welfare state (not recently though). is SFTSF a satire on how welfare states are always frustrating for users, or about how neoliberalism has wrought havoc with it. the british welfare state has no golden age, though the state of the nhs was part of what lost the tories the 1997 election.

― benrique (Enrique), Thursday, 2 November 2006 11:35 (nineteen years ago)

I think it's mainly about how neoliberalism and the depression have degraded the welfare state, but I it's also about what the director thinks is wrong with the Swedish society in general. In my opinion it's a brilliant film, but maybe you have to understand the specific context to really appreciate it.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 2 November 2006 11:52 (nineteen years ago)

search: Lukas Moodysson's Together

― Bob Six (bobbysix), Thursday, 2 November 2006 13:34 (nineteen years ago)

There is a Hungarian fest / Jancso retro in NYC right now; I'm not sure I'd ever heard of him before.

http://filmlinc.com/wrt/onsale/hungarian06/program.html

Capra's steady screenwriter, Robert Riskin, was an authentic lefty, but I'll be damned if you can find any actual politics in their films.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 2 November 2006 14:23 (nineteen years ago)

Watched 'The red and the white' yesterday. You couldn't say he comes down to either side - I suppose he couldn't present the 'whites' favourably anyway, and I couldn't tell who were reds or whites. I suppose that is why the film from got banned in Russia. Anyway, nothing happened - on one level its horse riding and ppl shooting each other for 90 mins, with some gorgeous shots of the landscape, ruins, people. On another, it's some sort of achievement to reduce death to nothing, whereas in other war films it's heroic or futile, etc. Here you get a sense of how everyday and random it becomes. The question "Russian or Bulgarian?" became useless. I never felt a sense of loss bcz there was no characterization, no story to tell. But yeah, it had a style - trying to capture a complexity of a very 'small' situation within a wider conflict - which held it together.

― xyzzzz__ (jdesouza), Friday, 3 November 2006 10:28 (nineteen years ago)

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