#towatch

¶*** OPEN ARCHIVES / LISTS / RESOURCES

TOTALIST FILM ARCHIVE
ask → david@totalism.org


D's IMDB film ratings (very long-term)
http://www.imdb.com/user/ur10222942/

_______________________________________________________


https://media.ccc.de/
hacker-related lectures (tech, politics)


https://media.libreplanet.org/
"media about free software and the amazing community that uses and builds it"


https://blackfilmarchive.com/
"Black Film Archive is a living register of Black films. In its current iteration, it showcases Black  films made from 1915 to 1979 currently streaming."
###L: weird similarity between CHTs archive description


^dcht00🔗/DOWNLOADS/0towatch
#tomerge
[s!!*o]
-----------------------
#loss:
    20240315
    searching, prob on some older, nebula2 or sth


TV slo dokumentarci stream sekcija @ online
###


https://holdents.monster/
"A lot of shit but sometimes you can find good films"


https://kinopoisk.ru
"russian IMDB"
cool, as it shows a graph of films + their scores for directors :)
example: https://www.kinopoisk.ru/name/16935/


<L
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_films_in_the_Soviet_Union
This is the list of highest-grossing films in the Soviet Union, in terms of box office admissions (ticket sales).


<L
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosfilm
selected list of films by Mosfilm production house


<L
https://www.writebrainstudios.tv/
A safe space for art to be dangerous. The ONLY underground anti-imperialist streaming site on the web.
(membership needed, ask L)



<-------------------- (new) RESOURCES / LISTS / OPEN ARCHIVES  ↑
                                    ! NOT FILMS !

¶*** FILMS & VIDEOS (to download // ready to watch // watched)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAtcrdJqJDc
this is fucking amazing ~12min
14:33 "everyone silent, i am the only one giving orders!"
"WHAT happened in this Airbus A350 Cockpit?! | French Bee flight 711"
#flying
==8/10


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGV3Y28DtNw
China's contemporary art
Sun Yuan & Peng Yu artwork (robot/blood/endless)
@@art-coordinates
5min
==8/10


https://vimeo.com/333795857
Zuckerberg supercat "more more grow hundreds of millions of more growth"
#anticapitalism #antifacebook
https://bengrosser.com/projects/order-of-magnitude/
==7/10


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtMYyP7G0HU
1924: "Dadaism ridiculed the meaninglessness of modern life – with captivating results. Directed by Viking Eggeling. Original score by William Pearson"
https://www.willpearsonmusic.com
5min
==8/10


(20210612)
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2021/jun/01/eve-the-off-grid-life-of-a-nine-year-old-climate-activist-video
"Eve is the intimate story of a nine-year-old girl living in one of the oldest off-grid communities in the UK, Tinkers Bubble in Somerset. We follow the fledging climate activist as she navigates her way back into traditional schooling and proudly speaks up for her passionate belief in the environment."
==6/10


(20210611)
Nim (opica)
==7/10


(20210518)
Paul Cockshott: Chengs 7 currents of Chinese social thought
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-ono_TRx64
==8/10 D+L
    Watch at 1.5 speed with breaks.
    A great look at currents within China's politics & the strata/classes that hold them.
#communism


////////// film watched in Gent night out ........
###
.......... the western with "village for sale" and "british accent partner" and "burning church" and "gets killed at end"
very technicolor
==7/10 D


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W54wktcewz4
Revolution 1968 sf
_________
    ==6/10 L
    very aesthetical, not too informative
    allrightallwhite, some critiques ... but mostly a visual trip alongside pretty boys and girls
    to check "morningstar pilot project" at ~1:20'


Regreening the desert with John D. Liu | VPRO Documentary | 2012
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDgDWbQtlKI
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xyssj3
"""
Green Gold - Documentary by John D. Liu
"It's possible to rehabilitate large-scale damaged ecosystems." Environmental film maker John D. Liu documents large-scale ecosystem restoration projects in China, Africa, South America and the Middle East, highlighting the enormous benefits to people and planet of undertaking these efforts globally. 
More information:
http://eempc.org/
What If We Change social media project:
http://www.whatifwechange.org
"""
---------
    ==7/10 L
    Doesn't give much practical howto's
    but encourages: "you can restore an area which was degraded"


https://www.youtube.com/c/EcoGecko/videos
#architecture #urbanism
==8/10


https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiQo406SKypmtAQXIHdZ6mA
birchpunk / russian cyberpunk :)
==7/10


The Gate of Heavenly Peace (Tiananmen Square Protests)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Gtt2JxmQtg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0lgc4fWkWI
(8.6 rating on IMDB)
[!!**]


(Yugoslavian modernist/brutalist tourist architecture)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tALx6BbZPB4
length ###
---------
update 20240315:
    video removed by user
[p//]


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltdj-QfzLhQ
climate hackers! 25min
###


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEMXQZRaMfc
"only censored soviet film" (about censorship) 25min
via https://www.openculture.com/2016/09/watch-the-surrealist-glass-harmonica-the-only-animated-film-ever-banned-by-soviet-censors-1968.html
imdb ###


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EFfxMx6WJs
(China thorium reactor!)
18min
#science #short [!*]
###


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPhrTOg1RUk
Contrapoints: envy
(1h48min)
[~]


Iancu Dumitrescu (on Romanian communism??, etc)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_mREz-0bQE
40min
[!!]


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZ6QpjPTaG8
alt link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEzOgpMWnVs
Michael Parenti - The U.S. War on Yugoslavia (1999) ... 1:20h
0000 anticapitalist / antihegemony 101
1730 "the first imperialism was by western europe vs eastern europe, against the slavs ... they were whites"
==9/10 D


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOF56wYTl1w
Michael Parenti, The Darker Myths of Empire: Heart of Darkness Series
###


#KHG
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4THv2qQjLhc
"Global Financial Empire 1"
<BG
###


#KHG
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4J0XFVWUXM&t=369s
ACUD MACHT FREI talk ........ but ......... 
seems just blah blah
###


#KHG
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkYZHlg2s-N16JaxhgV1XrQ
Channel: Socialism vs. Capitalism 101
(found via their comment on ACUD MACHT FREI video here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4J0XFVWUXM&t=369s , standing for anti-decentralization! cool #discoverability pattern)
#channel
###


#KHG
http://www.fieldstationstudio.org/STUDIO/PROJECTIVE_ARCHIVES/
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[!→] not films i think



————————————
———————————— $$$$$$$$$ full overview going ↓↓↓
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#KHG
https://www.facebook.com/QiaoCollective/posts/448154410067108
https://www.qiaocollective.com/en/education/video-lecture-is-china-capitalist-on-chinese-socialism
"""
Qiao Collective partnered with the Party for Socialism and Liberation to present a 1.5 hour class focused on the principles and evolution of socialism with Chinese characteristics.
The class touched on common questions and controversies such as:
- Is China capitalist? Is China revisionist? How can socialists address these questions?
- An introduction to China's socialist market economy, state-owned enterprises, and the successes and contradictions of the reform and opening up era and the new era of socialism with Chinese characteristics
- The continuities and theoretical innovations of Mao Zedong Thought, Deng Xiaoping Thought, and Xi Jinping Thought
- How to reframe Western approaches to discussing Chinese socialism
- Understanding the US-China trade war and the capitalist world economy
"""


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7COX-b3HK50
stafford beer / via leftist FB forum (Chile Cybernetics)
1h26


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mu6GRnFcGtA
cult or commune, inside "the garden"
25min
→ nice watch about futility & toxicity of "social media"
==SURE


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immanuel_Wallerstein
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riK3dlgusrI
<zack.walsh


"""
Donald Sutherland kot fašist Attila Mellanchini v filmu:
Dvajseto stoletje / Novecento, r Bernardo Bertolucci, Italija / Francija / ZR Nemčija 1976
"""
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074084/ ....... 7.6
#drama #history
==:
    → 50% DONE
[!!**]


Jackie Wang "Oceanic Feeling and Communist Affect"
@youtube ###
==6/10 L: looks boring


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOi6o7VHlvU
CHANNEL: azerbaijan wilderness food, no talk, just nature and knives and fire and smoking meat
==8/10


https://old.radiostudent.si/article.php?sid=29439&fbclid=IwAR3RpWqEcQb5kkGYoGLTUw1oa7c1JV0ZwZh7ZfTQVGS6hSzSQaFNMvNJmeI
(LISTEN/SLOVENIAN) Tonči Kuzmanič
###min
[!!o*]


https://video.vice.com/en_us/video/art-should-fuck-up-your-life-the-zen-of-lawrence-weiner/58f53c132574666019e2c21b
n of Lawrence WeinerAt 19, Lawrence Weiner created Cratering Piece by detonating four explosions in a field in California, which set him on an international art career. He is known for his contribution to conceptual art through text-based sculpture, in which the statement describing a work is indistinguishable from the work itself."
... LW died 20211202
###


https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4244994/
Ridley Scott: THE LAST DUEL
about (sexual) #violence
randomly via https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/beatles-get-back-paul-mccartney-b1969388.html
#film
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upd 20240315 looks eww
[p/]


RAILWAY HEROES
<qiao collective
https://sg.style.yahoo.com/railway-heroes-is-unabashed-anti-japanese-propaganda-145936912.html
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13859694/ ......... 5.7
... but probably still good
antijapanese
[!!**]


#channel
Alexander Mercouris (50k subscribers @ 2022/02)
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwGpHa6rMLjSSCBlckm5khw
#antiimperialist #geopolitics #analysis (usa, russia, china)
[s!r]
--------------------------
### videos


#channel
Marx classes with David Harvey
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwuMrd_Hgww
length ###
[!!]


https://media.ccc.de/v/saal_mp7_og_-_2013-07-06_15:00_-_making_music_with_a_c_compiler_-_erlehmann_-_5067#t=427
via http://news.dieweltistgarnichtso.net/bin/pluck.c.html
###


(L:)
The Battle at Lake Changjin
"a 2021 Chinese war film (...) as part of the 100th Anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party."
#film (imdb 5.5)
==9/10


(L:)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZSjjOQUtHY
hmmm ... about "chinese minorities"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Horse_Thief


https://www.rtvslo.si/okolje/v-imenu-narave/reka-je-vzporedni-svet-mesta/589528
https://www.rtvslo.si/okolje/v-imenu-narave/za-ponovno-naselitev-je-treba-imeti-najprej-zdravo-populacijo-znotraj-zivalskih-vrtov/596100
#rewilding
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https://www.facebook.com/cpbbd.videos
A Low-Brow, Crass Approach to Plant Ecology & Evolution as muttered by a Misanthropic Chicago Italian
#renaturing #botany
###


____________ moved from ex-separate section "#todll"


Daisies (1966, Věra Chytilová)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060959/ ............ 7.3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNLzUNS7_rw (trailer)
#comedy
"""
After realizing that all world is spoiled, Marie and Marie are committed to be spoiled themselves. They rip off older men, feast in lavish meals and do all kinds of mischief. But what is all this leading to?###
"""
[!!*f]


Zappa documentary
###
[!!o]


Psychomagic, A Healing Art (2019, Jodorovsky)
[!!**]


Santa Sangre (Jodorovsky)
==YES


Fando and Lis (1968, Jodorovsky)
==YES


[s!]
https://www.kinopoisk.ru/name/16935/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wong_Kar-wai
like:
    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118694/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_23
    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109424/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_29
###


<L
Yesenia
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0245580/....... 6.4
"Yesenia was a blockbuster in the Soviet Union, where it sold 91.4 million tickets, and became the highest-grossing film in the Soviet Union.[1] Due to this success abroad, it ranks among the world's non-English language films with the highest attendance record."
#film #drama #romance
[!*f]


<L
Shiva baby
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt11317142/?ref_=fn_al_tt_0
At a Jewish funeral service with her parents, a college student runs into her sugar daddy.
2020 film, <L's personal towatch
== (L:) 8/10
    perhaps not for D, but I found it hilariously well depicting weird social expectations and drama in family and friend / community relations


#film
Red desert (1964, Michelangelo Antonioni)
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0058003/?ref_=fn_al_tt_0
"""
In an industrial area, unstable Giuliana attempts to cope with life by starting an affair with a co-worker at the plant her husband manages.
"""
==8/10


Grifters (1990)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099703/ ... 6.9
[!!*f]


Country Teasers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2Kqfd9QfnM (trailer)
https://www.lesfilmsfurax.com/films/this-film-should-not-exist/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13129218/ ........ 7.6
"""
A documentary about the cult band The Country Teasers and their riotous 1995 Euro tour with The Oblivions. Features never before seen live footage aswell as new interviews with Ben Wallers, playwrite Simon Stephens, The Oblivions, David and Pat of Datblygu and Tim Warren "Crypt Records".
"""
#documentary
[!!f]


https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071315/
CHINATOWN
via new jodorovsky film's director (nose bandage scene)
#film


https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11586384/
Masking Threshold (Johannes Grenzfurthner)
"""
Conducting a series of experiments in his makeshift home-lab, a skeptic IT worker tries to cure his harrowing hearing impairment. But where will his research lead him? "Masking Threshold" combines a chamber play, a scientific procedural, an unpacking video, and a DIY YouTube channel ...
"""
#film
###


velvet underground film
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Gimme Danger (2016, Jarmusch)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1714917/
stooges !
#film #now


peckinpah: Cross of Iron
"""

• 1977
• R
• 1h 59m

German commander Hauptmann Stransky places a squad in extreme danger after Sergeant Rolf Steiner refuses to lie for him.
"""
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074695/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_7
nazi germans #film
[!!**]


https://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/news-bfi/lists/10-great-acid-westerns
#list #todll #film


High Plains Drifter
~2020410
#film
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068699/ ........ 7.4
---------
(didn't we see it?)
[!!iz]


<christo
BBC.I.Am.a.Mutoid.A.Glastonbury.Hero.1080p.HDTV.x265.AAC.MVGroup.org.mkv
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000xh3q/glastonbury-i-am-a-mutoid-a-glastonbury-hero
I am a Mutoid
#art



____________ completing peckinpah

THE GETAWAY 1972
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068638/
#film
==9


https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071249/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_9
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
#film
==9/10
-------------------------
#gift >alfredora >dora :)


https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070518/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_10
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
peckinpah 1973 western
#film
[!!!]


https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059418/
Major Dundee
In 1864, due to frequent Apache raids from Mexico into the U.S., a Union officer decides to illegally cross the border and destroy the Apache, using a mixed army of Union troops, Confederate POWs, civilian mercenaries, and scouts.
#film [!!]


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https://vimeo.com/15930463
Cointelpro 101 (2010)
==6/10 D+L "a bit obvious"


https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9770150/
Nomadland (chloe zhao)
==5/10 boring


http://video.kiberpipa.org/scalameet_potocnik_analyzer_for_scala/?language=en
Matic 2013 lecture about Scala static analysis :)
###
#dev
[!o]


(Reactionary foreign policy)
###
~###
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bV7PuqlMOzI "What Comes After the Communist Party in China?"
i wonder about https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMKqPgWJYr8 "New Thinking on the Origins of World War I" ??


(L:) long time on my towatch list
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056119/ ..... 8.2
La jetee (1962)
"""
The story of a man forced to explore his memories in the wake of World War III's devastation, told through still images.
"""
#film 28min
[w!!!]


(L:)
The X-files
"""
Two F.B.I. Agents, Fox Mulder the believer and Dana Scully the skeptic, investigate the strange and unexplained, while hidden forces work to impede their efforts.
"""
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106179/
#series #film #psycho
==SURE D
-------
[r!!]:
    * rewatch
    * download other stuff


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flaystdObkQ
15min #studio
building TONTO , a massive beautiful analog synth
###


The Battle of Chile: Part I
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072685/ ........ 8.1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Battle_of_Chile
---------------
↓↓
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricio_Guzm%C3%A1n
explore more!
"""
Patricio Guzmán Lozanes (born August 11, 1941) is a Chilean documentary film director. He is most known for his film trilogy The Battle of Chile (1975-1979) and more recently for another trilogy; Nostalgia for the Light (2010), The Pearl Button (2015) and The Cordillera of Dreams (2019). 
"""
[s!!i]
----------------
↓↓
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cin%C3%A9ma_v%C3%A9rit%C3%A9
"""
Cinéma vérité (UK: /ˌsɪnɪmə ˈvɛrɪteɪ/, US: /- ˌvɛrɪˈteɪ/, French: [sinema veʁite] lit. truth cinema; "truthful cinema") is a style of documentary filmmaking developed by Edgar Morin and Jean Rouch, inspired by Dziga Vertov's theory about Kino-Pravda. It combines improvisation with use of the camera to unveil truth or highlight subjects hidden behind reality.[1][2][3] It is sometimes called observational cinema,[4][5] if understood as pure direct cinema: mainly without a narrator's voice-over. There are subtle, yet important, differences between terms expressing similar concepts.
"""
[s!→] @@###
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[ZZsr!!**] (did we watch?)
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Julia Ducournau — Raw
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4954522/
"""je ena izmed najbolj nadarjenih, najbol nekonformističnih, najbolj strastnih, direktnih, neposrednih, agresivnih, nežnih in najbolj originalnih avtoric sodobnega filma, in upam da je to začetek novega, (nujno mednarodnega) feminističnega vala ženskega filma, ki se bo (suverzivno) posral na partiarhijo ki drži to umetnost že predolgo v svojih krempljih. 
P.S.: pred tem filmom si nujno poglejte naprej njeno prejšnjo mojstrovino Raw """
#film


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49p1JVLHUos
10 Bullets. By Tom Sachs ... "Working to Code" is a movie series designed for members of the Tom Sachs studio team. Required viewing for all employees and studio visitors. 
<<< probably yupsterized? found on S14 manual? ... 20min


2 hours of #anticrypto #antiNFT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ_xWvX1n9g&t=7824s
via https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7v5qq/meet-the-guy-who-went-viral-on-youtube-for-explaining-how-nfts-crypto-are-a-poverty-trap
"""
If someone pitches you on a "great" Web3 project, ask them if it requires buying or selling crypto to do what they say it does.
"""


"Where everybody knows your name" (9min)
Psychedelic computer-generated, "infinite zoom in" video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DtWfh9oS54
==SURE


How to Reject Capitalism in Your Personal Life (10min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pLAo1NOW54
[!!!e]


[??→]
https://mashable.com/article/project-cybersyn-chile-kernel-panic :
#Cybersyn [!!!o]
#postinternet
==========
↓↓
reminds me of
Regina de Miguel Chile/Cybersyn film
[!!]


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRLr4xG-LZ8
Writing a Global History of Soviet Socialism: Geopolitics, Knowledge, Experience: Part 2
(with Ivana Bago)
###
<andrea.liu


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34LGPIXvU5M
Noam Chomsky - The 5 Filters of the Mass Media Machine
5min (manufacturing consent 101)
== 9/10 D,L great intro, #cg


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BO83Ig-E8E
"Boy Boy"
hehehe #channel


https://www.facebook.com/rsguimaraes1/posts/10158386064966657
"""
"Russell Means (November 10, 1939 – October 22, 2012), was a leader of the American Indian Movement and victim of the FBI's COINTELPRO operation. Here he delivers an impassioned address about the nature of trying to be Indian in this country and of the necessity of maintaining the old customs and culture in order to preserve themselves as Indians. He also discusses the tragic consequences of the destructive effects on Indians by the activities of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the corporations exploiting Indian lands, and the forced evacuation of Indian lands in New Mexico, which were going on at the time of this speech. He speaks with moving reverence of the urgent necessity of life in harmony with nature and not transcending it in exploitative superiority.
Recorded Autumn, 1980
Copyright Dec. 1980"
"""
↓
###
[!]


https://www.diggitmagazine.com/videos/richard-barbrook-californian-ideology-future
+richard.barbrook
#hypermedia #antilibertarian #based
[!!]
###


[!!*]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcfztT-0N0I
(What is this) Dugin & Eurasia (all about)
###


<Kurzgezagt
* Automation → https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSKi8HfcxEk
* Climate → https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiw6_JakZFc
cute but "radical center", #cat1, etc


<wark [!!]
https://decider.com/2021/07/07/near-dark-walter-chaw


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<L
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdxls8uC4DA
Oliver Stone and Putin watch Dr. Strangelove


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBh-ivZ5C-w
The Putin Interviews - Oliver Stone Part 1 of 4


<L
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2626338/
Shadow world by Johan Grimonprez
"Based on the book of The Shadow World, this feature length documentary is an investigation into the multi-billion dollar international arms trade."
    Comment:"If you do want to get a good insight into arms trade, I'd rather recommend the 'How Rolls- Royce Bribed Its Way Around the World' episode of BBC Panorama. Factual and concise, it will tell you ten times more on the topic, in five times less time."
#documentary #film


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"Hypersonic Missile Nonproliferation" by RAND corporation (7min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyUTNRIuAqc
==7/10
"the world will be a more dangerous place"


The Day After 1983
https://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/ronald-reagan-the-day-after.html
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085404/ ............. 7.0
haha could watch this
==7 D


https://vimeo.com/124778753
CIA & Orwell
#takedown #tnf


https://vimeo.com/92354292
https://twitter.com/pagesofalbum
video poetry
met @meyboom.bxl
###


Dreams (1990, Kurosawa)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100998/ ....... 7.7
<brinch : "surrealen film je pač po sanjah"
#film #drama #fantasy
[!*i]


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_Switch_(The_X-Files)
(series part, by <william.gibson)
<<matic
###


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_y_zeql7pc
The Music Industry’s Darkest Secret
posthumous profiteering:
    "music is one of the rare industries where the work is worth more to the industry after the death of the worker"
    "their death is a consideration in the investment"
    "M Jackson didn't die, he was murdered ... I feel the same for Prince"
#documentary #music #marxism
###


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3taV2GC-udA
"SEARCH, FIND, TELL"
"The film is dedicated to the war in Ukraine and the confrontation between the United States and Russia."
###


Lost illusions 2021
via Urosev kolega ("situacija pred francosko revolucijo"=)
"""
Story of the rise and the fall of a young man in Paris who dreamed to be a writer and became a journalist.
[...]
Lost Illusions is a movie adaptation of the classic novel by Honoré de Balzac
"""
#film


(L:)
The Anarchists
"""
The Anarchists, a new six-part documentary series from HBO about a fringe political community in the Mexican resort city of Acapulco
"""
via https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/jul/11/the-anarchists-hbo-docuseries?CMP=fb_gu&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR3K3nd9aS0Yud_8Oi7mSXrJWWc3XOrpbKNpLIPMwsZWjSfn5KM0mmKKyf4#Echobox=1657531544
###


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kangaroo_Chronicles
#film
==8 D


THE WIRE (series)
<leo
https://www.facebook.com/zhaoism/posts/pfbid038HJYc2HX7s9iVAiNhXSh7X6ULzkqNeMV9puEVHDbNQZQyxUa4wCfXuHcioSGqpbJl
###


Kelly's Heroes 1970
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065938/ ........ 7.6
"""
A group of U.S. soldiers sneaks across enemy lines to get their hands on a secret stash of Nazi treasure.
"""
Adventure/Comeday/War
tank film!
[!]




______________(L:) List of Communist movies ("I gathered from different places")


——— via  <Naomi Comrade on fb

[!!]
"""
The Motorcycle Diaries
Not explicitly “pro-communist”, as it doesn’t really take an ideological position but it is certainly pro Che Guevara, and anti-capitalist. It’s based on Che’s diary of his journey through South America on a motorcycle and the suffering he saw as a result of capitalism and imperialism.
#film


Che Part 1 & 2
Pro-Communism account of the Cuban revolution (part 1), and attempted Bolivian revolution (part 2). The director said the cinematography was done purposefully in a way to adhere to Marxist philosophy, I don’t really see it tbh, but it they are still great films.


Parasite
It’s not explicitly pro-communist as if Bong Joon Ho claimed to be a communist in South Korea his career would die instantaneously, however is is very explicitly anti-capitalism, and pro class solidarity. Any other of Bongs films could fit here to a lesser degree, although snowpiercer does have some elements that while pro socialism aren’t really compatible with Marxist-Leninism.
#film


[!]
Sorry To Bother You 
This is one of the most entertaining and surprising movies I’ve seen in a very long time. It is made by the admitted communist director Boots Riley, and critiques capitalism, particularly calling out the exploitation of labor. It also does a great job calling out liberals who adopt a revolutionary aesthetic.
#film
6.9, 2018


The Battle of Algiers (1966 BW)
"""Pro-Socialist, anti-imperialism account of the Algerian revolution. This is one of the most important revolutionary films in movie history.""
"""A film commissioned by the Algerian government that shows the Algerian revolution from both sides. The French foreign legion has left Vietnam in defeat and has something to prove. The Algerians are seeking independence. The two clash. The torture used by the French is contrasted with the Algerian's use of bombs in soda shops. A look at war as a nasty thing that harms and sullies everyone who participates in it."""
#film
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058946/ ... 8.1
==YES


The Act of Killing (2012)
"""
Not explicitly pro communist iirc but it is a brutal expose on the killing done in the name of “anti-communism”, and the suppression of revolution. This is an essential documentary for any communist to watch.
"""
different versions
"""

• The 159-min version is the director's cut. It is the only version being released in Indonesia, and was released alongside the 115-min version in Danish cinemas. Compared to the shorter version, the 159-minute version reveals more of the filmmaking method and also explores the role of propaganda cinema in maintaining anti-communist fervor. The fiction scenes take over the film's form to the extent that ultimately the boundaries between fiction and documentary blur. In the final act, Anwar's descent in the long version is longer and more complex.

"""
-------------
#documentary #film
[!!**]


Ip Man Series
Not explicitly pro communist, but very pro China, and anti-imperialism. These are very entertaining movies you can watch with your friends or family."


————— reactions on post

"""
Edward Grant
Heres one no one knows about. A good old fashioned 80s comedy about worker co-ops with Judge Reinhold, Danny Devito, Rick Moranis and Jane Seymour 
https://youtu.be/bAVXp1oGjHA
"""


"""
Элиас Хури
Goodbye Lenin
Touching story and shows how shitty things became after the fall of the berlin wall
"""
→ https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0301357/?fbclid=IwAR0-QtCLaXneEB0LK7EN2DjTAJx5FwUBBu-dkqM6xtGuksFRR4z2z9Ku4r4


Ioan Cristian Caravana
"""
this is an absolute masterpiece if you ask me. it's about Lulu, a worker in a factory who becomes alienated from his work and encourages a violent strike having been influenced by a bunch of radical Maoist students. 
https://youtu.be/fNcxxBjEOgw
#film
"""


"""
Gareth Murphy
If you've never seen Battleship Potemkin, put 75 minutes aside and treat yourself 
→ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2986SLGCgeE
"""
==6/10 D (I think overly cannonized)


* Trumbo (2015)
"""
It shows the courage and integrity of the Communists and other victims who fought back and ultimately won their right to create and make a living. The movie focuses on Trumbo, who did not deny his party membership nor did he denounce his beliefs
"""
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3203606/ ...... 7.4
[!!!]


* Reds (1981) — with Warren Beatty
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reds_(film)
--------------
features https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Nearing !
==SURE


[!!]
* Matewan
"A labor union organizer comes to an embattled mining community brutally and violently dominated and harassed by the mining company."
1987, 7.9
==9 D


* Blue Collar (1978)
"When three workers try to steal from the local union, they instead discover corruption and decide to use this information for blackmail."
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077248/
[w!!!]


______________________________


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPpjWHlkVf8
Ivan Matija Maček
Komunist / #yugoslavia, hated by nazi collaborators
22min
[!!]


Heidi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Wa-z1R1OKA
###L: my favorit as a 7z old kid
#film
[~]


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Not_Your_Negro
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5804038/........ 7.9 
"""
I Am Not Your Negro is a 2016 documentary film and social critique film essay directed by Raoul Peck,[3] based on James Baldwin's unfinished manuscript Remember This House. Narrated by actor Samuel L. Jackson, the film explores the history of racism in the United States through Baldwin's recollections of civil rights leaders Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King Jr., as well as his personal observations of American history.
"""
==6
(low energy, too contemporary was the mistake)
(possibly informative as a 102s)


https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0296973/
The Admirable Crichton 1968
"""
A group of people are shipwrecked when their yacht runs aground on a South Pacific island. The usual hierarchy in an upper-class British family breaks down quickly when it becomes apparent that only the servant Crichton is capable of surviving on his own and he becomes the community's leader.
"""
funny socialistic/meritocratic, via Peter Pan author!
#film #CHT.alike :D
==8 D,L
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Paradise Lagoon (1957)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050100/?ref_=tt_sims_tt_i_1 ..... 7.1
[!!**f]


<L
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063555/
The Color of Pomegranates
1969 Soviet Armenian art film written and directed by Sergei Parajanov
surreal biopic of Armenian poet Sayat Nova, told via non-narrative amalgamations of images, hailed as revolutionary by Mikhail Vartanov.
#film
==10 D


<L
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0207885/ ....... 8.1
Fall of Eagles (1974 Mini Series)
The collapse of three great European dynasties: the Romanovs, the Habsburgs, and the Hohenzollerns.
[!!!f]


Soy Cuba (1964)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058604/
"""
This study of Cuba--partially written by renowned poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko--captures the island just before it made the transition to a post-revolutionary society. Moving from city to country and back again, I AM CUBA examines the various problems caused by political oppression as well as by great discrepancies in wealth and power. Beginning in Havana in the pre-Castro era, we see how foreigners contributed to the city's prostitution and poverty; this sequence features dreamy, hallucinogenic camera work that creates a feeling of unease and dislocation. Then, in glorious images of palm tress and fertile land, the film looks at the sugar cane fields in the countryside, and the difficulties faced by peasants working the land. Finally, back in the city again, leftist students battle the police and a corrupt government--and pay a high price for their rebellion. —Mr Bongo
"""
"""
Perhaps the most visually stunning movie ever made.
It was produced in Cuba by the USSR in 1964 so it is undoubtably pro communist. It is an episodic account of life in pre revolution Cuba and the drastic effects that US imperialism, capitalism and Batista’s fascism had on the Cuban proletariat. You must watch this movie even if it may sound dry, it is absolutely stunningly shot, and likely the most avante garde film of its time.
"""
#film
[w!!**]


"Z", 8.2
politics violent thriller (communism/anticommunism, propaganda, etc)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065234/
#film  #now
==9.5/10


<L 
Destiny of a man / Fate of a Man (1959)
Soviet historical war drama
"""
a war movie directed by Sergei Bondarchuk, who was a World War II veteran himself (he played the main character). The move was praised at the time for showing the character of people who survived the War and who were then rebuilding the country in the following decade.
The film was also seen as therapeutic, helping people to deal with collective trauma. 
"""
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053317/ ...... 8.0
via Denis Vladimirovich
#film
[!!!]


<L
War and Peace (1966-1967) by director Bondarchuk
Soviet historical war drama
"""
It’s a historical drama about the early 1810s Napoleonic Wars, based on Leo Tolstoy’s epic novel of the same title (Tolstoy left a HUGE imprint on classic Russian literature and Russian culture in general). The series is considered the most expensive Soviet movie ever produced. It won numerous international awards in the 1960s, including the Academy Award for the Best International Film.
"""
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063794/ ..... ###
via Denis Vladimirovich
#film
[w!!]


<L
Beware of the Car! (1966)
Soviet comedy
"""
a classic Soviet crime-comedy about automobile theft. Lots and lots of multilayered satire and cultural subtexts in this movie. The main protagonist is played by an actor who played Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” in a Soviet movie adaptation a few years prior (the movie makes references to it on a meta level); some argue that Beware of the Car! conveys the true meaning of “Hamlet”, in accessible comedy form, although it’s open for interpretation and debate. 
"""
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060161/
via Denis Vladimirovich
#film


<L
Ivan Vasilievich Changes Occupation (1973)
Soviet comedy
"""
The movie is also known under the “Ivan Vasilievich: Back to the Future” title in the West. A sci-fi comedy based on a play written by Mikhail Bulgakov that tells a story about time-travel between the Soviet 1970s and the 16th century Russia (the times of Ivan IV). One of the most popular Soviet movies ever. I think they still run it on central TV channels every year closer towards the New Year holidays. The film is packed with satire and subtle cultural references. 
"""
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070233/
via Denis Vladimirovich
#film


<L 
Courier (1986)
"""
a dramedy about a teenager who graduates from high school into late Soviet society and finds himself facing uncertainty in his future, lack of genuine meaning in life and, as a result, existential crisis. The movie director, Karen Shakhnazarov, is praised nowadays for being able to pick up the early signs of the social and cultural degradation of the Soviet society in the mid-1980s and reflect on them in this film.
"""
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091364/
(Perestroika and Post-Perestroika movies— those were the movies made during the turbulent times when social structures were degrading (along with the economy and living standards), leading to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and the following decade of post-Soviet turmoil.)
via Denis Vladimirovich
#film


<L 
Brother (1997)
"""
This movie is considered one of the best reflections on the social turmoils experienced by Russians in the 1990s, after the fall of the Soviet Union. The movie tells a story of a young soldier returning home from the First Chechen War of 1994-1996 and getting dragged into a criminal organisation by his rich businessmen brother. 
"""
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118767/
(Perestroika and Post-Perestroika movies— those were the movies made during the turbulent times when social structures were degrading (along with the economy and living standards), leading to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and the following decade of post-Soviet turmoil.)
via Denis Vladimirovich
#film


<L
Soulless (2012)
Modern Russian movie
"""
a reflection on the 2010s Moscow elites and the moral degradation of the Russian business classes. Based on Sergey Minaev’s novel by the same title written about the pre-2008 Financial Crisis upper class in Moscow (many consider it pulp fiction, but it represents the spirit of the era fairly well). 
"""
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1826660/
https://youtu.be/FOMZe8ePtjY
via Denis Vladimirovich
#film
###


<L
The Fool (2013) 
Modern Russian movie
"""
a drama about a young engineer who tries to warn his city’s administration about imminent collapse of a communal house, but faces obstructions by the corrupt system. It’s a cult film, among certain circles. Some of my friends got mildly depressed and experienced an existential crisis after watching it. 
"""
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3560686/
https://youtu.be/tVXB-zQQA74
via Denis Vladimirovich
#film


[s!!**]
<L
Soviet cartoons:
    * The Cat’s House (1958)
    * Ivashka from Pioneer Palace (1981)
    * Once Upon a Dog (1982)
    * Ambulance (1949)
         “Skoraya Pomosch” in Russian, an essential watch, especially for mature audience. 
         Good luck finding it in English, though.
via Denis Vladimirovich
#film


"anti lenin" ###
<zaenco (Telegram)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xV4GfHjJAtE&t=911s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HA_oUReokeQ
length ###
[s!!**]


<L
[!!**] "Triangle of Sadness" by Ruben Östlund
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7322224/
Super funny, esp the mid part. But also #CHT.alike and a contemporary version of "The Admirable Crichton"
==8/10
you can stream it here 
    → https://holdents.monster/movies/play/7322224-triangle-of-sadness-2022?mid=17&sid=udgiekut69p6opqr2gsenmuq0c&sec=1d11ca1b445ecc5e3626df43ffb0fc46cd52d813&t=1669501957
#film


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLzBDhilDL0
Four Masted Barque rounding Cape Horn 1928 - Captain Irving
==8/10


<L
DUNE
==8/10 L:
    """
    in terms of Holywood sugary enjoyment
    slightly problematic colonialist approach (the white dude is the saviour of the desert ppl) but appart from that pretty nice and beautifull in times of longing for the desert
    """


Tarantino - The Hateful Eight
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3460252/ ... ###
###



<L
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102536/
Night on Earth
1991 | Director: Jim Jarmusch
An anthology of 5 different cab drivers in 5 American and European cities and their remarkable fares on the same eventful night. 
#film
==7 D


<L
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0213847/
Malena (w Monica Bellucci)
==6/10
"""
2000 | Director : Giuseppe Tornatore
Amidst the war climate, a teenage boy discovering himself becomes love-stricken by Malèna, a sensual woman living in a small, narrow-minded Italian town.
"""
#film


<L
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwJdLu8A_OE
The Incredible Healing Powers of Herbs in the Alps
==7/10
from Free High-Quality Documentaries
"""
Secluded for many centuries in inaccessible valleys, the inhabitants of the Alps had no alternative but to rely on the healing powers of nature. A knowledge of herbs was deeply rooted in these mountain-dwellers’ everyday lives – until the twentieth century, when this wisdom became eclipsed by modern academic medicine. Today, Alpine herbs are witnessing a revival, as public interest in regional natural treasures grows. The potential of Alpine herbs is far from exhausted. 
"""


[s!!**]
<L: Silly list with movies to check, via Cinematic on facebook
looking into "Crown of Flowers"
"""
Little Women (2019)
The Virgin Suicides (1999)
Emma (2020)
++ French Provincial (1975)
+ Midsommar (2019)
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (2018)
++ Daisies (1966)
Dead Poets Society (1989)
Marie Antoinette (2006)
++ Wanda (1970)
The Sound of Music (1965)
++ The Color of Pomegranates (1969)
"""


Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079579/
Three young provincial women come to Moscow in search of what people in all the capitals of the world are looking for - love, happiness and prosperity. Their destinies develop exactly as the character of each of the girls suggests.
#film
==8/10 <L



[s!*]
https://www.writebrainstudios.tv/project/a-visitor-to-a-museum/
#todll
(izdihar USSR monster films)


LA PASAJERA 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyaPg8TZDPs
<L, Mexican horror roadmovie with a VW LT lookalike (Honda)
"The occupants of a van transporting a wounded excursionist have to avoid sitting next to her during the trip."
###


Heat 1995
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113277/ ....... 8.3
action/crime/drama
[w!!**]


https://www.bozar.be/en/calendar/choice-richard-mosse-lessons-darkness-werner-herzog
### ....... imdb 8/10 (TV)
Herzog ###
"""
Shortly after the Gulf War, oil fires were raging all through Kuwait. In the week before this sea of fire would be extinguished, Werner Herzog filmed this apocalyptic landscape with its murky skies, scorched earth and capricious flames. Ironically, he describes this burning Kuwait as "a new landscape, a national park for the future”. Because the documentary does not contain a single image in which we can recognize our planet, he defines his work as a poetical science-fiction film.
"""


[s!!*]
The Fourth Wall
###
"""
His son Keith Newton has made a four-part docuseries about the group, entitled The Fourth Wall. The first episode was premiered at the 2023 Tribeca Film Festival.[7] 
"""
about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saul_B._Newton
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt27906659/?ref_=nm_knf_t_1
https://movieweb.com/the-fourth-wall-review/
-----
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PtOMq5pXEE


Althusser - an Intellectual Adventure (2017)
<mckenzie.wark
58min
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt20243770/ ... 6.7
[w!*]


(via meme this being deep yellow quadrant)
Letters from Baghdad
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6086614/ ... 6.9
"""
This is head and shoulders above any other Gertrude movie or documentary.
Knowing Gertrude Bell and her history helps explain how today's middle east is divided into the countries we see today.
[...]
Tilda Swinton (voice)
"""
"""
Absent however is any hint of Edward Said’s accusation of Orientalism that’s intermittently colored modern assessments of Bell’s crucial role in the foundation of modern Iraq; also missing are any negative assessments by her Arab contemporaries
"""
[!t]