o yeah and Ashes and Diamonds from Poland
How about Red
White
and Blue (or are they too late?)
And of course of course my favorite film of all time (I've got dozens of those)
Andrei Rublev, by Tarkovsky
First saw it during a filmfest in SF, I was working graveyard shift, and staying
up all day to see movies, so they all have an extra crust of glitter for me now
AK
"Porges, Timothy" wrote:
> Take a look at the Czech movies made in the mid-sixties: Loves of a Blonde,
> Closely Watched Trains, Fireman's Ball. etc. Dusan Makevejev's early work
> was done in good old Yugoslavia-that-was. Dziga Vertov might be too
> pre-everything for you, but he was great and there are tapes available. If
> you like silents, Aleta, Queen of Mars is amazing. Damn, I might have her
> name wrong, though. Look at the Facets catalogue: it's organized by country,
> and you'll find lots of cold-war period work from central and eastern
> europe.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Eryk Salvaggio [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Sunday, August 27, 2000 8:00 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: FLUXLIST: Re: havanna
> >
> >
> > Trying to steer the Cuban discussion into art topica
> > [as revolutionary art is always a fave discussion topic
> > of mine:]
> >
> >
> > Oddly enough, the sundance channel just played
> > "A History Of Underdevelopment," a documentary made
> > in Cuba about the disappearance of hope in Cuba
> > post- Castro....
> >
> > It was certainly not an invigorating film, ending with
> > the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Speech Castro gave
> > about how Cuba would not back down, how they
> > were United as a nation, that this was a test of thier
> > independance and unity as a nation- and of course, they
> > backed down. Fitting ending I think...
> >
> > Does anyone know of any other movies made within
> > Communist Regimes? I was fascinated by a look at
> > Animation in the Soviet Union on Bravo's animation
> > festival a while back; but these films seem very hard to
> > find in the USA.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > mn wrote:
> >
> > > > A big jail??? Oh, please. The Cold War is over. Would you say the same
> > thing about Mexico? How about any other third world country. How much time
> > did you spend there? Where did you go? Any tourist with $$$ is king
> > anywhere.
> > >
> > > About a week ago I saw this documentary about Cuba and recycling. It
> > doesn't actually seem like a paradise to Cubans. The embargo kind of
> > sucks. It never cleared to me when the embargo started and when it, if it
> > has, stopped.
> > >
> > > Me thinks in France tourist with dollars isn't king, but more likely a
> > court jester. At least speaking just Finnish and bad English wasn't adored
> > in Paris back in late eighties.
> > >
> > > mn
