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The Atomic Cafe
(1982)
Review by Jay Moore
-- A darkly comic documentary on life in the U.S. during the paranoid Cold
War 1950s. Uses a lot of footage from actual government propaganda films made
to convince the American public that nukes were OK. We emerge from the theatre
into the bright light of day feeling more frightened of nukes (and the
government) than ever. After you see this film, the phrase, "Duck and Cover"
will always be knocking around in your head.
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The Battleship Potemkin (1925)
Review by Ethan Berne
-- Directed by Sergei Eisenstein, "Battleship Potemkin" is a classic of early
Soviet cinema. It was made to commemorate the mutiny aboard the Battleship
Potemkin, which occured during the first Russian Revolution of 1905-7. The
sailors' mutiny was in response to the harsh treatment they received from their
officers, such as the ignoring of maggots on the meat to be used as food for
the sailors. The most dramatic scene in the film is the portrayal of a
demonstration in Odessa. This scene is Eisenstein's contribution to the
definition of a film montage, a crying baby in a carriage rolling down the
steps with Cossacks firing on the unarmed demonstrators running away. The fact
that it is a silent
film does not hinder the overall message, it does more with images than most
movies can do with words.
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