Schindler's List? Old Yella? Il Postino?
films for kids
I should also say that they quite enjoyed some of the riot porn images of running battles with cops
They're kids that we're working with on other things as well including a seedling of a campaign to get them a club of their own, and writing their own column in the local paper we've been making. We've got a quite good relationship with them - one of them even asked tonight when the next meeting was and if he could sit in on it again! He sat, insisting he wasn't bored, through a tenants meeting a few weeks ago and had brought another pal in today who now is also wanting to come to meetings! What monsters are we creating? Mwuhaha 
Can't think of any kid's films that have much in the way of political ideas. All depends how old the kids are as well.
Out of the contemporary mainstream films, The Iron Giant has some interesting bits and takes place during the 50s with the 'red scare' and the threat of The Bomb. The bad guy is the FBI investigator, the good guy is the beatnik.
Old stuff, not strictly a kids film but... Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times (if these kids can cope with black and white and 'silent').
Whoops I didn't notice the "world/poltics/self organisation" bit.
Chuck Norris did films??! I thought he only even did Walker: Texas Ranger. Which kicked ass. Dubbed into Italian anyway.
Hmmm politicaly films for kids... I'll have a think. I showed my nephews+niece This Is What Democracy Looks Like and crowd bites wolf + they really liked them.
How about political simpsons episodes? With Dirt First!, Homer's plant's strike, etc.. Or South Park.
political simpsons episodes is good.
All I can think of is battle royale 
ooh ooh, there's a nick broomfield documentary about a rent strike - I think divisive cottonwood linked to a torrent of it - it's got an amazing (AMAZING) scene in a school when they get the Gideons in then a policeman who makes himself look a complete cunt. One of the funniest things I've seen. link tomorrow, I'm off now.
Princess Mononoke.
Yeah anything by Miyazaki is good, Spirited Away, Howl's moving Castle etc - though they're quite 'soft' films, and traditional animation - no 3d tricks - so depends on the attitude of the audience I suspect.
For the very young, my neighbour Totoro is great.
NB// Porco Rosso is Miyazaki as well.
Saii wrote:
Princess Mononoke.Yeah anything by Miyazaki is good, Spirited Away, Howl's moving Castle etc - though they're quite 'soft' films, and traditional animation - no 3d tricks - so depends on the attitude of the audience I suspect.
For the very young, my neighbour Totoro is great.
yeah that was fantastic except i fucking hated Billy Cunt Thortons voice!
Is it wrong that i thought Wolf Girl was hot as fuck!
I think it was the blood... 
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That was a joke, cos I think animal farm's not a great one.Shrek and Shrek 2 are awesome... they probably will have seen them tho i guess.
And who can have missed the political allegory in Shrek 2, where the ogre is transformed into Gordon Brown and does battle with the forces of reaction in the shape of Charming (Blair) and the Fairy Godmother (Mandelson)?
Seriously, the Shrek films are good on several levels, not least about difference, plus they have loads of fart jokes to keep the kids happy.
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Martin
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yeah that was fantastic except i fucking hated Billy Cunt Thortons voice!Is it wrong that i thought Wolf Girl was hot as fuck!
Proper strong violence as well, peoples' arms getting sliced off with arrows within the first five minutes. He seems to have calmed the gore in the last couple of movies a bit, his early stuff rocked, Lupin III and the pursuit of Harimao's treasure has the wisecracking hero pitted against a woman-hating transvestite neo-nazi 
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Yeah probly entirely wrong, specially as she wore fur, the bitch 
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Not wanting to derail the thread (as it'd probably be a boring film for kids), has anyone seen Behold a Pale Horse with Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn and Omar Sharif? It's supposed to be based on Sabate, isn't it? I saw it on telly when I was a kid, was bored by it, but would like to see it again now I'm all grown up.
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I agree that Animal Farm isn't ideal for very young children, I would say that 10-12 years should be approaching an age where they could cope with it. I'm guessing that you're talking about the Animal Farm (1954) version? The 1999 version ends with social partnership with the bosses!
I got an audition for the 1999 version. 8)
Me as an actor:
(I look nothing like this, by the by)
B. Traven innit. And his alter ego Hal Croves advised on the film and actually approved of the finished product.
"Badges? We don't need no steenkin' badges!"
On the subject of Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, this film is instinctively anarchist in every sense. It had a big influence on me when I was a teenager and it prompted me to read the book (the first book I ever read - luckily it's very short).
hey if you need to deconstruct mainstream kids movies after showing them go to a Maoist site(had a particular one in mind but can't find it) and download their critique, no matter what film they have reviewed it. Of course you will have to edit out the conslusion which is always that main critism is that the film makers didn't follow the wisdom of old mao.
Jason Cortez wrote:
hey if you need to deconstruct mainstream kids movies after showing them go to a Maoist site(had a particular one in mind but can't find it)
i loved 'The Crimson Pirates' when i was a kid. It has a real DIY feel to it, the pirates come up with some cracking ideas.
Other than that its all about how old they are to an extent and whether they can hold their interest in realistic stuff.
At some point they should watch Sweet Sixteen definitely - though i'd be interested to know what u thought of that anyway, being scottish.
I echo what others have said - anything from Studi Ghibli, it has real message of self reliance/kids independence. saw this the other day, was beautiful: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_in_the_Sky
We've had films on at the chalkboard and we get our regular kids coming in and then getting bored as we're watching documentaries.
So tonight we were talking about screening things that they'd enjoy too. They're mostly 10-12 years old. We'd like to show stuff that would not just catch their interest, but obviously it would be nice to also educate them about the world/poltics/self organisation at the same time.
So far the only suggestion is the cartoon Animal Farm which though I'm not that in favour off as I think its too sad, we'll prob show soon.
Any other ideas?