I have the opportunity to screen movies to a somewhat sizeable audience quite regularly, and I need some recommendations, because my knowledge only extends so much. The audience will go from somewhat politically engaged to extremely radicalized, knowledgeable people (as much politically as with movies).
Be it an experimental documentary which subverts a whole political question, an astute analysis of a geopolitical situation, an emotionally devastating (or potentially hopeful) fiction, or just a very sensible poetic essay in the Chris Marker style or documentary like Paris is Burning, I need it all.
Preferably not something mainstream as that kind would already be widely available to watch for most and the goal is to widen the audience of lesser known movies that need to be shown just as much. Like really very obscure stuff preferably.
Thank you comrades.
edit : here's your list:
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Come and see
Tender Comrade
The North Star
Reds
My Brothers and Sisters to the North
The Spook Who Sat By The Door
Harlan County, USA
Matewan
Robocop
Z
Stop Filming Us
Gaza Fights for Freedom
Nuit et Brouillard
Der Fall Gleiwitz
Network
Dog Day Afternoon
The Unknown War
Weekend
La Chinoise
Blue Gold
Syriana
Dominion
Earthlings
Carnage
Okja
Lucio
The Act of Killing
The Look of Silence
The planet of the Humans
Seaspiracy
Hypernormalization
Hotel Terminus
Man With A Movie Camera
The Organizer (i compagni)
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
Property is No Longer a Theft
The Working Class Goes to Heaven
Hara-Kiri
The Human Condition
Pitfall
Woman in the dunes
Good Morning
Night and Fog in Japan
Three Resurrected Drunkards
Death by Hanging
Canoa: A Shameful Memory
Xala
Sorry to Bother You
Black Gold
Barry
The Times of Harvey Milk
Las Sandinistas
Robocop. No, but seriously.
Great little movie. Entirely self-contained and does its thing. Has many classic quotable lines. Probably people won't like it because it's pro-police and shows Robocop executing poors. ED-209 is one of my favorite robots of all of cinema. So powerful, and in the end felled by a flight of stairs.
My partner and I have never seen Robocop. Aside from it being an 80s action staple, is there some red meat to it for me as a Marxist? I know the movie itself is suppose to be a critique of police, but aside from that, any noteworthy leftist ideas in it that makes it worth mentioning in this context?
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But would it be a fun movie to get stoned and have fun with on a rainy night? Seriously, I've never seen it except for the very final 90ish seconds.
Oh hell yeah, you need to see it. It's perfect for that.
It will be done. :kim-salute:
You're gonna have such a good time. Robocop is amazing gory schlock and an intelligent criticism of Capitalism at the same time as well as just being a good action movie. Verhoeven is a champ
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I'd buy that for a dollar!
We need that dudes face as an emoji
on the contrary it's great, it's hard to make a radical but still entertaining movie. for that u gotta master way too many fucking shit
makes sense honestly, will def use it. thank you.