Leftist movie thread

What's are your favorite leftist movies? Pic related it's mine.

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renoir: rules of the game/grand illusion
chris marker: grin without a cat, the last bolshevik
any aki kaurismaki film but especially man without a past

my two faves

I know that Allende fucked up in some ways, but this film is pretty god damn sad at the end of the day

one of the working titles for the film was "So That's Why the Bourgeoisie Sucks"

never got around to finishing this. got half way through and it was bizarre. i'm going to try it again soon

Jake and Ellwood had so much revolutionary potential. Ten of them and we'd have FALGSC already

my favorite scene in the whole movie. demonstrating what a socialist alternative to a capitalist business would look like youtube.com/watch?v=-VdbFzwe8fQ

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i forgot to mention this movie. it's a classic

obligatory

spook busters

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don't forget, the main character fought with the republican forces against Franco in the spanish civil war.

/r/ing the webm where the little kid goes on a rant about the exploitation of the worker and statist powerlust. I thought I had it, but I don't sadly. Anyway, that webm is from this movie and everyone should watch it.

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This shit makes me want to go out and fight a cop, everytime.

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Cloud Atlas is sci-fi Phenomenology of Spirit, also good shit.

For a more non-fiction suggestion a Swedish documentary maker named Göran Olsson got a whole bunch of old lost footage from leftwing struggles from around the world.

He made them into The Black Power Mixtape 1967–1975 which focuses on leftwing revolutionaries from the black community in the US.

And Concerning Violence which focuses on African NatLib struggles and is intercut with a reading of Franz Fannon's Concerning Violence from The Wretched of the Earth.

Does the movie go full AnPrim at the end or have I wrongly interpreted the meaning?

Utterly bleak nihilistic satire with an EXTREMELY anti capitalist, mocking the glorification of ambition, entrepeneurship, and the American dream as the sick perverted idols they are.

The best film of the 2010s.

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Loved the film, one of my favorites of all time. I think one of the major themes that's covered is alienation, and although Gilliam might not have consciously done this, the effects of alienation are very similar to what Marx describes.

This isn't a movie, but it was pretty leftist as fuck.

Is there any good text on the philosophical/ political interpretation of Cloud Atlas? I have seen it couple of weeks ago on TV without any context and have no idea what to make of it

Can Dialectics Break Bricks?
A situationist anti-leftist film. A detourned Chinese karate movie. "A Toast to the exploited: for the extermination of the exploiters!"
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"He’s alienated and he knows it. He has no control over the use of his life. In short, he’s a proletarian. But that’s going to change."

Imbecile bearing a sack of petitions.
Bearer of petitions justly trampled underfoot by the servants of the State.

"Alert! Bureaucrats in the neighborhood!"

"The bureaucrats begin by exploiting us and end up by alienating us. 'Serving the People' they call that." "Don't worry, the film's just starting." "They've made propositions to me but… they were still improvements in poverty of poverty itself the were 'improving'."

"Listen to me, Comrade! The bureaucrats have chosen your house." "Of course… to drink my sweat." "That's not all: you have to go to your crummy job -the exploiters- and show how much you've produced." "Horrors!"

"Have you resolved the question of organization?" "Afterwards… the Workers Councils will be realized in generalized self-management." "But what can we do until then?" "We'll find something like them. You can't combat alienation with alienated means." "Don't worry about it. It will all work out."

"So, that's how your exercise your dialectical materialism and, why not… your radical subjectivity." "That can still be of use." "Not for wildcat strikes. Not for the occupation of factories. I hope. Nor for arson against public services. Nor for looting major department stores. Work must be your only role. Work, Family, Fatherland! Work! Family! Fatherland! Just stick to that." "I don't want to hear any more about class struggle. Otherwise, I'll send in my sociologists! And if necessary my psychiatrists! My urban planners! My architects! My Foucaults! My Lacans! And if that's not enough, I'll even send a structuralist." "Bureaucrat!" "I'm fed up! I'm not gonna kill myself at some stinking job my whole life!" "Oooh! You could have a word about that with your union…"

"Well, now that I think about it, this isn't the first time this has happened: We already got you without taking any prisoners in Catalonia in '37… And in the streets of Budapest in '56. See you next time." "Bureaucrat! We're not some bunch of militants! We'll never again let ourselves… be used as the weapon of critique."

"–Lies! And Trotskyoid lies at that! –That's right!" "And it's all done the better to * us over." "Now that's the important point. Comrades what do you say of this foolishness?" "You, comrade, tell us a bit about it." "Yes, this * originates in the stupid and obtuse Leninism of Trotsky." "But let's not be too cruel to the grandfather of bureaucracy. It's so archaic." "Yes, very archaic. And just when will this eruption of the end take place?"

"They've alienated yet another proletarian." "Another one lost" "–What's going on? –This one just became a union rep." "As soon as he did, he repressed a wildcat strike, just before buying a tv on credit."

"Are you going to see the bureaucrats tomorrow?" "Yes." "You're on the wrong track. Do you know the nature of the power-wielding classes? Of the bureaucracy? And all the contradictions of capitalism? Don't underestimate the adversary." "I know all that." "And you're getting mixed up in it?" "Yeah." "You're playing into their hands and mediation is their game." "I'm sick of commodity ideology. You're just like the others and they're killing us with it." "But not for much longer." "You still get hard?" "The only thing I have left is the experience of love." "Getting it up against the old world which brings me boredom." "You don't see it–your fingers are blocking your eyes." "Why don't you put them somewhere else?" "Not today. Maybe later tonight." "You're no longer a man." "What's gotten into you?" "Try to understand me." "Listen. Don't be a jerk. You have no power. But it can get better. We're gonna try to smooth over class struggle. To arrange social peace so there'll be no more injustice." "They offer crumbs, we want it all. A bit more pay, a bit more poverty." "They can drop dead!" "Take it easy. I'm no Trotskyist. Do I look like a ***? The bad days will end." "I believe you. I've seen you kill more than one priest. But you can't conquer alienation with alienated means."

"Why don't you leave me alone for once?" "Why so nasty? Don't be like that. What have I ever done to you anyway?" "You've kept your illusions about Castro. You're retarded. Leave me the *** alone." "You should realize, it is a bit stupid to retain all those illusions." "Don't take it too hard. She'll get over it soon. She's a Castroist but it's because she hasn't read Reich yet."

"the only good militant is a dead militant." "Those who exterminate bureaucrats half-way are only digging their own grave." "Down with the State!" "Down with all States!"

this is my favourite left wing movies list mubi.com/lists/leftist-films


these are good

Check out the motorcycle diaries its the better Che movie imo.

comfycore

adam curtis says he's not a leftist though

Ay Carmela is a good comedy about the Spanish Civil War

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gorgeous film about capitalism in crisis, cardboard unions, labour aristocracy, consumer culture brainwashing and what is the limits of workers solidarity

First Leftist comedy of 2017.

Saw it at the Cinefamily in Hollywood last night. Not as good as it should have been, but was the first Marxist themed American film I've seen in ages.

SPOILERY:

The film is broken up into three acts over the course of six years. A lazy John Oliver-esque host describes the extremely disturbing state of the world with bad jokes and ends each segment with "but enough politics, bring out the fart machine!" and a naked man on a unicycle farts his way across the stage.

Sandra Oh plays the trophy wife of a war profiteer. Anne Heche is an avant garde artist who works as a caterer. They hate each other.

Both are Porky. A new Presidency has ushered in a war in the Middle East, and Oh's husband is cashing in. At a party, they get into a BRUTAL fistfight and Heche accidentally knocks Oh into a coma.

Cut to two years later, and anti-establishment art is hip and Heche is now Porky now. Oh wakes up and finds that her son has died in the war after he enlisted (after she discouraged him from going to art school) and her husband's business dealings fell through and she kills herself. Meanwhile, Heche has become a horrible pregnant monster who abuses her assistant and screams at her weirdo wife (Alicia Silverstone) all the time. Oh awakens for her coma and decides it's time for revenge.

That's all I will give away, but it was very interesting. It wasn't as funny as it should have been and the budget was shoestring, but it's so rare examining themes of porky, profiteering, and art as exploitation of masses and creators. Also, the director is apparently a psycho. He and Anne Heche got kicked off of Doug Benson's podcast for being total lunatics.

2 and a half out of 5 stars

Check it out for novelty value of Lefty movie.

ugh sorry

Is fight club leftist?

Depends, I have seen leftists describe it as an example of what alienation under consumer capitalism looks like. I have seen Holla Forums say its a "le red pill" movie cuz of tyler durdun. I've seen some feminists interpret it as a deconstruction of the male power fantasy and its homo-erotic undertones.

Tbh fight club is up to your interpretation. I personally believe its a leftist film, hell the movie ends with tyler durdun/ the narrator blowing up a ton of banks.


Dude KND was the shit when I was growing up didn't know it was lefty tho, could you expand on how its leftist?

Also even thought its a tv show, pic related for fav leftist piece of media, even if it was probably unintentional.

loved it

one of my favorites too.

Always Sunny isn't leftist as much as it is simply aware of how farcical and superficial American politics are.

Danny DeVito is a cool guy tho

Duck you Sucker! has some pretty anarchist/revolutionary themes + its a fun western. Also: directed by Sergio Leone who is one of the best.

Starship Troopers features some great satire of fascism and war propaganda. Not explicitly leftist but enjoyable nonetheless.

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Brazil is the #1 favorite movie of Doug Walker, better known to the internet as the Nostalgia Critic. Do you think he has the potential to be a legit leftist? Or even better… /ourguy/?


Funny thing about that, Egon Spengler looks a hell of a lot like Max Stirner.


Dude, you should check out Modern Times. That movie has some anarchist themes sprinkled into it, and poke fun at the working conditions of the proletariat at the time.


Cloud Atlas is my favorite fucking movie. Purest kino out there.


Have you heard about the creator, Patrick Warburton, trying to get Cartoon Network to greenlight a spin-off/continuation of the show, entitled Galactic Kinds Next Door? I can link you to the pitch animatic (or better yet, a fan-animated version of the animatic), if you want.

Fuck, I meant Mr. Warburton. My bad.

Haven't really seen any.

This review on a blog I found sort of goes into it a bit

thunderclam.wordpress.com/2012/11/14/our-lives-are-not-our-own/

You can read or read about Hegel and watch the movie a couple of times and you'll probably get it