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
Nuit et Brouillard a film about what the Nazis did once they took over Europe. Serious Film, with subtitles.
Der Fall Gleiwitz a bizarre film about the Gleiwitz incident which was used to start WWII. You could not get a more East German movie than this. The music is particularly good, and usually I hate black and white but this movie uses it really well. Good thing we don't have false flags any more!
Network (1976) still relevant today.
The Unknown War a series that's probably way too long but narrated by Kirk Douglas and shows WWII from the Soviet side. From the brief bit of time in the 1970s when detente was a thing and the US cracked a bit open.
+1 on Network. It's frankly disturbing how so many of the things which are intended as gross exaggerations are just facts of life now. Parody is impossible.
I second The Network. It's chillingly relevant today.
looking great thank you. that east german movie looks dope. yeah Nuit et Brouillard, incredible film. I think every single kid in France has seen that one in secondary school. straight to the point.