Three Reasons: STATE OF SIEGE
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Costa-Gavras's STATE OF SIEGE is available now in Blu-ray and DVD special editions from the Criterion Collection.

:stephan: This movie has everything: unequal exchange, neocolonialism, Jakarta method, parapolitical death squads, School of the Americas, USAID/CIA connections, urban guerrillas. It's like every book I've read in the last year and comrade Costa-Gavras put it all in a movie 50 years ago. It's about the Tupamaros fighting against US fascist intervention in Uruguay.

While it was released one year later in American theaters, a storm of controversy developed. Many U.S. officials hated the movie and even stated that it was a heap of lies about U.S. involvement in Latin America and other third world countries. In Washington, D.C., it was removed from a special screening at the John F. Kennedy Center, only to be run uncut on a local TV station.

Cool shit, high recommend. I'm working my way through Costa-Gavras' filmography this dude was fucking tight.

    • HoChiMaxh [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Yeah I saw Z for the first time last week, that movie was dope as hell. Like really only deranged leftist psychos are going to watch and enjoy State of Siege but Z is such a cool movie with momentum, cool music and great characters that really I think anyone could enjoy it.

      But it is also very based. You could tell just how furious he was. When I saw the disclaimer at the start "any similarity to real persons port events is not coincidental. It is intentional" I laughed out loud and strapped on the seatbelt