Yeah ok. I’d say in general most people don’t watch that many movies made more than 20 years before they were born. I watch a lot of movies, old and new foreign and domestic but realistically I don’t watch more than maybe one a year made in that time frame as applied to me.

IDK right or wrong I think it’s pretty important to contextualize these numbers rather than going the “kids these days” route.

Also Netflix sucks. If you have a library card you probably have free access to stream films on Kanopy which has a ton of great older films.

the number of people who write off all “old movies” (roughly before 1985) is concerning.

Is this even a thing among adults

Not books per se but authors: I find both Marx and Fanon very tedious to read. Their prose is awkward and I feel like the text is fighting my brain when I try to read them.

This is not a slight against their ideas, just their writing.

It should also be noted I’ve read neither in their original language, just translations, so it’s I entirely possible this is just the fault of translators. I don’t think it is for Marx though, because even when I read Engels or Lenin and they block-quote Marx the text automatically gets :wtf-am-i-reading:

I think Skinamarink is the scariest flick I’ve seen in a long time, maybe ever. I think the the sense of worsening dread as the plot develops and savagery and hopelessness ratchet up is pretty unique.

I think you’re right about the depressing :doomjak: feeling too, it stuck around with me for a few days. The fact that they’re so young, and thus haven’t fully developed a consistent set of rules for how the world definitely should be, means they begin adjusting their sense of normal to this heinous scenario that the audience understands to be completely demonic.

Really great, no notes I thought it was perfect. The Hammer and Podcast fellas did a review on it last weekend (these are the guys that used to do film reviews with Breht on Rev Left Radio Back in the day.) Taylor has an interesting interpretation of the spirits as an embodiment of ideology itself - while I wouldn’t phrase it exactly like that, I do think that line of thinking is what made it stand out to me.

If you’re going to try watching it, go to a theatre, don’t watch it on your laptop while scrolling Hexbear, it is made with the expectation you pay attention and allow the horror to sink into you

In prison Ocalan became a theory head, and he synthesized a kind of hodge-podge anarcho-feminist revolutionary theory that Rojava is ostensibly based on. I’m not familiar with the specific quote but in context this is likely about challenging the assumed role of men in society to uplift women’s position.

You can just not care about Youtubers it’s like so easy you just go live your life it doesn’t change anything

Maoists are cool honestly, I think that in general critiques from the left are principled and should be encouraged if they don’t embrace or strengthen reactionary or counterrevolutionary positions.

#1 has to be Z (1969) by Costa-Gavras, about the fascist coup in Greece in the 60s. Comrade made, you can just feel the anger of all the people involved. People talk about old movies feeling slow, this movie fucking pops. You can watch the whole thing for free in good quality here, honestly if you’re not all in after the first 5 minutes, or really after the title card that says “any similarity to real person or events is not coincidental; it is intentional” followed by the speech at the fash gathering in a smoke filled room, then you won’t like it.

If you like that, his State of Siege (1972) is also a classic, about when the Tupamaro urban guerrillas in Uruguay abducted US torture specialist Dan Mitrione. Just total :based-department: stuff. Filmed in Allende’s Chile.

I’ll second the people who mentioned Casablanca and The Bicycle Thief.

Bridge Over the River Kwai (1957) and Wages of Fear (1953) are also cool.

Peeps here recommended the :wtyp: episode on Rhodesia, definitely helped me gain some fluency with the whole thing

This is great - anyone have the og link? I’d love to share this

jucheguevera is a great handle. That shit was just sitting there I can’t believe I never saw it

it’s a joke about the Ramanujan summation which argues the top one adds to infinity but the bottom adds to -1/12

Holy shit thank you

I feel like I’ve scoured this image for hints. Who tf is Joanne and in what way is she related to this screenshot?

Daily reminder that actual anarchists you meet in the wild are cool, have good praxis, and are nothing like these nerds. Here’s to my anarchists comrades :maduro-coffee:

Huh, TIL :sankara-salute:

Sure, I mean radlibs aren’t necessarily bad, the rad is short for radical. Nader is a radlib and he’s cool af

all oppressed people have a right to violence - Lizzy Borden

Every cancer is a homicide, every boss better run and hide - :boots-riley:

Was he a communist? I thought he was a radlib