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In Portugal, late in the night of April 24 to 25, 1974, the radio broadcast an outlawed song: “Grândola”. It could have just been an act of insubordination by a rebellious
journalist. It was in fact the preplanned signal triggering the military coup which was to change the face of this country and the destiny of vast territories in Africa.Read More »
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Maria de Medeiros – Capitães de Abril AKA April Captains (2000)
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Denys Arcand – On est au coton AKA Cotton Mill, Treadmill (1976)
1971-1980CanadaDenys ArcandDocumentaryPoliticsQuote:
One of the most controversial films in Canadian history, On est au coton is an examination of the exploitation and repression of textile workers in Quebec. This National Film Board production, more social inquiry than documentary, contrasts the lives of textile workers and their bosses and places their situation in an historical context by employing footage from old films about the industry. (The title is a pun which literally means “we are in cotton,” but it also connotes “we are fed up.”)Read More » -
Enrique Juárez – Ya es tiempo de violencia AKA Now is the Time for Violence (1969)
1961-1970Amos Vogel: Film as a Subversive ArtArgentinaDocumentaryEnrique JuárezPoliticsQuote:
In 1969, the film director Enrique Juárez thus anonymously produced Ya es tiempo de violencia (Now is the Time for Violence), mainly concerned with the events of the May 1969 Cordobazo riots and the assassination of the trade-unionist Augusto Vandor on 30 June 1969. Other images included those of the massive funerals of Emilio Jáuregui, another trade-unionist shelled three days before Vandor’s death during a demonstration in protest of Nelson Rockefeller’s (owner of Miramax there) arrival to Argentina.Read More » -
Collectif Mohamed – Le Garage (1979)
1971-1980Collectif MohamedDocumentaryFrancePoliticsIn 1977, some teenagers from Alfortville, Vitry-sur-Seine and Val-de-Marne estates created the Collectif Mohamed and made three shorts. They wanted to produce their own images and stories, created by themself and not by other people. They wanted to investigate the projects where they lived, to produce a political speech and give substance to their own revolt.Read More »
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Marco Bellocchio – Enrico IV (1984)
1981-1990ItalyMarco BellocchioPoliticsThe story begins at a medieval dressing party. A man, dressed as the King Enrico IV, falls from his horse and hits his head. This causes him serious lesions and gets insane, believing he is really the KingRead More »
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Ken Loach – Looks and Smiles (1981)
1981-1990DramaKen LoachPoliticsUnited KingdomThis film is based on the novel of the same name by Barry Hines (first published in the bad old days of the early 1980s when the nefarious Margaret Thatcher ruled Britain. — Frontline Books).Read More »
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João Batista de Andrade – O Homem que Virou Suco AKA The Wrung-Out Man (1980)
1971-1980BrazilDramaJoão Batista de AndradePoliticsQuote:
São Paulo police mistakenly thinks a folk poet and singer is the same man who had stabbed his boss.Read More » -
Patricio Guzmán – Salvador Allende (2004)
2001-2010ChileDocumentaryPatricio GuzmánPoliticsChilean filmmaker Patricio Guzmán has lived in Europe in exile for many years
but continues to make features about his native country. His latest, the
documentary ‘Salvador Allende’, is not a classical biography (though it has
elements of that too) but rather a chronicle of a search by the filmmaker himself,
who was greatly inspired in his youth by Allende, to see what was is left in Chile
now of Allende’s legacy, and what was it then, that made Allende an inspirational
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Juan A. Gamero – Vivir la utopía AKA Living Utopia (1997)
1991-2000DocumentaryJuan A. GameroPoliticsSpainQuote:
“Living Utopia is a unique documentary that blends the historical account of the origins and development of the Spanish anarchist movement, focussing on the 1936 war. A reflection on the philosophical underpinnings of such a movement and their practical application. As both an informative and inspiring piece of research it is considered a jewel amongst historians and rebel hearts.”Read More »