brother cakes
09-15-2012, 11:03 PM
post feature length films you find uploaded to youtube that might be of interest here. don't know how well this thread will endure but i'll try to kick things off with The North Star (1943)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZGN3PmnOPU
this movie is a strange instance of communist workers being humanized (heroized, even!) in an American movie, as if they weren't really any different from, say, the Joad family in John Ford's "Grapes of Wrath" (if the Joads were in a position to exact vengeance for their suffering, if they had become partisans). bear in mind, this was made in 1943. so... that probably has something to do with it.
the imdb reviews are disgraceful, dismissing it as propaganda, as if propaganda can't be truthful and have artistic value.
anyway, i hope you like it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZGN3PmnOPU
this movie is a strange instance of communist workers being humanized (heroized, even!) in an American movie, as if they weren't really any different from, say, the Joad family in John Ford's "Grapes of Wrath" (if the Joads were in a position to exact vengeance for their suffering, if they had become partisans). bear in mind, this was made in 1943. so... that probably has something to do with it.
the imdb reviews are disgraceful, dismissing it as propaganda, as if propaganda can't be truthful and have artistic value.
anyway, i hope you like it.