Any good anarchist films?
Apr 17 2009 18:59
I watched land and freedom while back but can't think of many more. Please inform me. lots of love.xx
Apr 19 2009 20:22
#2
SomeMethod wrote:
Sickdog24
Here's a link to a list of anarchist and related films on Stuart Christe's website:
http://www.christiebooks.com/Film%20Database/anarquismo/index.html
Thanks alot mate. Shall have a look. Always respected Christe, even after he voted in those european elections. Ppl should take a leaf outta his book more often(franco thingy not voting!).
Apr 20 2009 09:46
#3
I've always liked Winstanley, I think you can get it on DVD now from the BFI, or I believe that Haringey Independent Cinema is showing it this Thursday if you're in London!
Apr 20 2009 12:19
#4
don't forget Viva Maria! (1965)
Apr 20 2009 15:03
#5
huw wrote:
I've always liked Winstanley, I think you can get it on DVD now from the BFI, or I believe that Haringey Independent Cinema is showing it this Thursday if you're in London!
I have to move to London sometime.
Apr 20 2009 15:10
#6
To be honest I wouldn't bother.
Apr 20 2009 15:12
#7
there is alot going on there to be fair.
Apr 30 2009 11:27
#8
Thanks for the link
SomeMethod wrote:
Sickdog24
Here's a link to a list of anarchist and related films on Stuart Christe's website:
http://www.christiebooks.com/Film%20Database/anarquismo/index.htmlStuart C. used to put a lot of these films on Brightcove.TV so you could watch them on line. Unfortunately this feature of Brightcove.TV is now defunct
The cinema, included ‘The Siege of Sidney Street (1960), ‘Behold a Pale Horse’ (1964) based on the life of Sabate. A Spanish film ‘Libertarias ‘(1996) as good as ‘Land and Freedom’ and another Spanish film 'La Lengua de las mariposas’ (1999) which was released in the UK with subtitles as ’Butterfly’s tongue’
Some documentaries on anarchism in the US, and lots on the Spanish civil war which despite my lack of the language were visually interesting with plenty of opportunity to hum along to ‘A Las Barricadas’. You can still see a few of them elsewhere on the Stuart Chrisite site.
May 8 2009 23:09
#9
I remember watching "Rebellion in Patagonia" when I was a teenager. I believe it involved an anarcho-syndicalist union in Argentina. Hard to find copies of the film, though. It is discussed in the following book:
Film and the anarchist imagination
By Richard Porton
Edition: illustrated
Published by Verso, 1999
ISBN 1859842615, 9781859842614
314 pages
You might be able to read some of it on Google books
May 10 2009 07:32
#10
What To Do In Case Of Fire is pretty ridiculous, but enjoyable.
May 11 2009 13:54
#11
Also, there was an anarchist film festival called Projectile in Newcastle, looking at their programme might give you a few good ideas.
May 11 2009 15:31
#12
ok sounds interesting.
May 11 2009 15:37
#14
Choccy wrote:
Rambo4probably the most anarchist film ever made
If thats the one set in Burma. I love (rather sick mind) the scene where he hooks up a trip wire next to a unexploded ww2 bomb to blow up a squadron of baddies. If I had to do that in self defense against the fash/authoritarians that would be my favourite way of putting them outta there misery. Oh dear im not pro war/violence btw...
May 11 2009 15:58
#15
May 11 2009 16:22
#16
sickdog24 wrote:
Choccy wrote:
Rambo4probably the most anarchist film ever madeIf thats the one set in Burma. I love (rather sick mind) the scene where he hooks up a trip wire next to a unexploded ww2 bomb to blow up a squadron of baddies. If I had to do that in self defense against the fash/authoritarians that would be my favourite way of putting them outta there misery. Oh dear im not pro war/violence btw...
The best bit is when he fuckin just chops the guy's head off with a machete, grabs the mounted gun and wastes a few hundreds bad guys in the space of 6 incredible minutes
May 11 2009 18:46
#17
I think there's films with an anarchist esthetic that don't necessarily have a clear political message ("avant-garde"), and films that are perhaps more conventional narrative-wise but definitely political.
One of the greatest critiques of modern capitalism I ever saw on film is Fassbinder's Berlin Alexanderplatz mini-series (after the eponymous novel by Doblin). Cinematically it is extremely rewarding (and I'm not talking occult film student shit, it's just an amazing work of art).
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Alexanderplatz_(television)[/url]
(I see it's also mentioned on the Christie list)
May 20 2009 10:59
#18
There's a film called 'Can Dialectics Break Bricks?'
This is the summary of it by another person :
"Imagine a kung fu flick in which the martial artists spout Situationist aphorisms about conquering alienation while decadent bureaucrats ply the ironies of a stalled revolution. This is what you'll encounter in René Viénet's outrageous refashioning of a Chinese fisticuff film. An influential Situationist, Viénet stripped the soundtrack from a run-of-the-mill Hong Kong export and lathered on his own devastating dialogue. . . . A brilliant, acerbic and riotous critique of the failure of socialism in which the martial artists counter ideological blows with theoretical thrusts from Debord, Reich and others. . . . Viénet's target is also the mechanism of cinema and how it serves ideology"
And this is the link :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wPCiyjtBfo
Although it's not anarchist it's situationist so it might be interesting?>
I hope it helps
Jun 14 2009 19:55
#19
Vivir la utopía (Living Utopia) is very good with loads of interviews from veteran Spanish anarchists, documentary though. It's on You Tube Vivir la utopia and torrents are about.
Jun 14 2009 21:14
#20
Since the Lumière first filmed workers: 1895-1995 from the book "Desde que los Lumière filmaron a los obreros: el mundo del trabajo en el cine" written by José Luis Sánchez Noriega, published by Nossa y Jara Editores, S.L. «Madre Tierra» connected to the CNT in Madrid.
Les anarchistes à l’écran - Anarchists on screen 1901-2003 Bulletin (Printemps 2004); written by Marianne Enckell & Eric Jarry, and published by Centre International de Recherches sur l’Anarchisme (CIRA)
Jun 14 2009 21:24
#21
Richard wrote:
Vivir la utopía (Living Utopia) is very good with loads of interviews from veteran Spanish anarchists...
i agree, this is one of the best documentaries of spanish anarchism
Sickdog24
Here's a link to a list of anarchist and related films on Stuart Christe's website:
http://www.christiebooks.com/Film%20Database/anarquismo/index.html
Stuart C. used to put a lot of these films on Brightcove.TV so you could watch them on line. Unfortunately this feature of Brightcove.TV is now defunct
The cinema, included ‘The Siege of Sidney Street (1960), ‘Behold a Pale Horse’ (1964) based on the life of Sabate. A Spanish film ‘Libertarias ‘(1996) as good as ‘Land and Freedom’ and another Spanish film 'La Lengua de las mariposas’ (1999) which was released in the UK with subtitles as ’Butterfly’s tongue’
Some documentaries on anarchism in the US, and lots on the Spanish civil war which despite my lack of the language were visually interesting with plenty of opportunity to hum along to ‘A Las Barricadas’. You can still see a few of them elsewhere on the Stuart Chrisite site.