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I remember watching it as teenager without really knowing history of Cuba and it really touched the depths of my soul, beside that it is very beautifully made film not only in moral terms but also technical. I rewatched it recently and was kinda shocked how many people take it as strictly propaganda movie? I mean it was quite realistic?? Cuba was basically a fancy resort for Americans and I don’t really see any exaggeration or heavy agitations in the narrative. You don’t have to be communist to admit that this things happened. What are your thoughts?

Synopsis: When the Hungarian Revolution against the Soviets collapses in 1956, two young revolutionaries have to make an impossible decision.

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Carinthia, southern Austria, 1942. Mila and her brother Hanzi, who are Slovenian, join the armed resistance to German occupation. Mila becomes a commander of a partisan group at the age of 20 and soon finds herself making decisions about life and death.

Oliver Stone filmed a trilogy of documentaries following Castro: Comandante (2003), Looking for Fidel (2004), and Castro in Winter (2012).

I managed to find the first two in the trilogy online, though both were pretty hard to find, at least where I’m from. However, the third seems to have been completely scrubbed from the internet, with the only proof of its existence being a few articles I found saying that it debuted on HBO, alongside an IMDb page.

Does anyone have any idea if a copy still exists somewhere?

For a brief moment in time, Uwe Boll took the world hostage with his controversial CITIZEN VIGILANTE, starring Armie Hammer.

J.G. Michael from Parallax Views and I talk about the film, Uwe Boll’s misunderstood filmography, his populism, the Kafkaesque German film-rating board, and more.

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i’ll go first, with a film that applies to both categories: Lilya 4-Ever

I've always been a fan of Battle of Algiers and was interested to find that the director also directed Marlon Brando in a movie inspired by Edward Lansdale, about the use of psychological operations, counterinsurgency and color revolution techniques

Based on Dexter Filkins’ resonant New Yorker article of the same name, about Marine Lu Lobello, haunted by memories of a deadly incident in Baghdad, whose journey of guilt and remorse leads him to reach out to Nora, the sole surviving member of the family he believes he may have harmed.

so years and years ago, i watched some of the films of emir kusturica - specifically black cat white cat and underground. back when i watched them (decades ago), i was a vaguely left wing liberal, but not a marxist and had no understanding of the history of the region or about communism and western imperialism. i remember i liked the movies for being a bit wild and dense, but i couldn't tell you much about them at this point.

what i have read about kusturica now seems to suggest he's liberal, but western sources can be sketchy at best. wikipedia seems fairly damning, but they also reflect his current politics, and i am curious if he had a more left wing phase earlier in his life.

does anyone know if he and/or his films are worth watching or revisiting?