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Stuart Cooper recommended The Battle of Algiers (1966) in Movies (curated)

The Battle of Algiers (1966)

1966 | Classics, Drama, War

7.4

(8 Ratings)

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". . . for its originality, objectivity, and political power. I studied it while I was preparing Overlord. I admired a quote of Pontecorvo’s: “Technically U.S. directors keep improving. But this technical expertise hides an emptiness that keeps getting bigger. They’re very good at saying nothing.”"

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Kevin Macdonald recommended The Battle of Algiers (1966) in Movies (curated)

The Battle of Algiers (1966)

1966 | Classics, Drama, War

7.4

(8 Ratings)

Movie Favorite

"The way that Gillo Pontecorvo makes his political points without resorting to propaganda—while always being truthful to the characters—is utterly brilliant. It’s a true-life thriller that doesn’t resort to a single cliché. The music is also unequaled in film."

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Nathan Englander recommended Brother I'm Dying in Books (curated)

Brother I'm Dying

Edwidge Danticat | 2008 | Biography, History & Politics

(0 Ratings)

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"If there’s any nonfiction book that I wish had lost its relevance, this is it. But Danticat’s very personal 2007 account of her family’s differing journeys seems even more urgent today, dealing as it does with emigration and asylum and political upheaval."

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Ross (3284 KP) rated Fear of a Black Planet by Public Enemy in Music

May 22, 2020

Rolling Stone's 302nd greatest album of all time

Superb hip hop from Chuck D et al. Such strong socio-political statements that can't be ignored (though lets face it, they largely were for quite some time) layered on brilliant sampling and mixing.

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Macbeth

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Macbeth is a tragedy by William Shakespeare; it is thought to have been first performed in 1606. It...

Rebellion - Season 1

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Rebellion is a five part serial drama about the birth of modern Ireland. The story is told from the...

Rebellion - Season 2

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Rebellion is a five part serial drama about the birth of modern Ireland. The story is told from the...

Cyn Armistead (14 KP) rated The Rainbow Cadenza: A Novel In Vistata Form in Books

Mar 1, 2018

I really wanted to like this book, and after [b:Alongside Night|1955398|J. Neil Schulman's Alongside Night|J. Neil Schulman|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1190837684s/1955398.jpg|1958351] I had fairly high expectations. I knew that I agreed with most of his political views as I understood them, so all should have been well.

Unfortunately, it reads as if Schulman had a political point to make and wrote the story around it. The world and the plot are just pasted onto the soapbox. The rationale given for why the population has gotten so skewed so that there are too few women doesn't ring true.