***Great Movies About Fascism*** This thread will collect movies that are stark, inspiring, wildly entertaining, cautionary, defiant, powerful, and (inevitably) sometimes problematic. Please contribute! #1: Casablanca (1942) - ThreadSky

merz.bsky.social • 29 days ago

***Great Movies About Fascism***

This thread will collect movies that are stark, inspiring, wildly entertaining, cautionary, defiant, powerful, and (inevitably) sometimes problematic.

Please contribute!

#1: Casablanca (1942)

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ebishirl.bsky.social•29 days ago

Z is brilliant.

therealjimsanto.bsky.social•29 days ago

#2 Argentina, 1985

cyrilpedia.bsky.social•29 days ago

On Argentina, this is a devastating classic

merz.bsky.social•29 days ago

#3
Missing (1982)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fj-ujhBxaCU

cyrilpedia.bsky.social•29 days ago

Spectacular film. If you pay attention, in one of the scenes of torture, they are speaking Portuguese. This is because the Brazilian dictatorship sent the (US trained) 'specialists' to participate. Several of my parents' friends were caught up in this as they had fled to Allende's Chile.
#Sept11

cyrilpedia.bsky.social•29 days ago

Jack Lemmon & Sissy Spacek are incredible in Missing. But in my opinion the Costa Gavras masterpiece on fascism is Z

merz.bsky.social•29 days ago

In my queue and I have not watched it yet

cyrilpedia.bsky.social•29 days ago

The film, the actors & of course, Theodorakis soundtracks.
If you have the chance to catch it in a revival run somewhere, dont miss it.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/02/arts/music/mikis-theodorakis-dead.html

merz.bsky.social•29 days ago

Costa Gavras is an amazing director.

cyrilpedia.bsky.social•29 days ago

You can pick a random one out of hat in this period, Section Speciale would probably be my next favorite.

merz.bsky.social•29 days ago

#4 Pan's Labyrinth (2006)

jeboyt.bsky.social•29 days ago

#5. The Good Fight (1984)

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0085610/

jeboyt.bsky.social•29 days ago

6. Jojo Rabbit (2019)

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt2584384/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_1_nm_0_in_0_q_jijo%2520ravbit

merz.bsky.social•29 days ago

#7 The Great Dictator (1941)

cyrilpedia.bsky.social•29 days ago

Wonderful! What a great list. On the Spanish Civil War (besides Gary Cooper as Roberto Jordan), Ken Loach's Land & Freedom makes me cry every time (just took the kids to see it... at the Lisbon Cinemateca)

everydayhuman.bsky.social•29 days ago

I may have to rewatch that through a different light now.
😊

gili92107.bsky.social•28 days ago

Rules of the Game by the French director Jean Renoir.

cyrilpedia.bsky.social•29 days ago

You know how Truffaut (side note: The Last Metro) said you cant make an anti-war film?
Elem Klimov proved him wrong

"Come and See"

merz.bsky.social•29 days ago

Paths of Glory
Johnny Got His Gun

cyrilpedia.bsky.social•29 days ago

Jean Pierre Melville's story about the resistance is amazing. Not jingoistic propaganda, an absolute must-watch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXfSLzJjsCE

cyrilpedia.bsky.social•29 days ago

It is, of course, at Criterion

merz.bsky.social•29 days ago

It's the only streaming service that I always have a subscription to.

cyrilpedia.bsky.social•29 days ago

I cant get it here in Portugal! Portugal & Spain have something called Filmin, which instead of Vin Diesel & Rob Schneider like crapflix, has Kurosawa & Melville...

cyrilpedia.bsky.social•29 days ago

The Lisbon Cinemateca (one of the last surviving things in this city that has not been crushed by mass tourism & "digital nomads") will have two screenings of Casablanca this month! It's part of Michael Curtiz cycle.