Word: costa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...DIFFERENCE between Special Section and Costa-Gavras's early masterpiece Z is the difference between being upset and being enraged. The earliest work is a classic in the genre of political filmaking. Its importance is explicit, topical; its purpose to instruct, inform, and hopefully, to change. In Z the ugly, brutal face of fascism is an easy target for the audience's hatred. Unfortunately, Costa-Gavras' latest film seems to have political intentions and somehow means to help us form a social opinion. Ultimately it does neither. Its topic of justice and collaboration in the Vichy regime is 35 years...
Part of the film wants to be a fairy tale, part a travelogue, part a Victorian novel, part an accurate reconstruction of eighteenth-century life. At least Kubrick can't be accused of what many critics are now attacking Costa-Gavras for, being a director condemned--as a bad director might have been in Dante's Inferno--to making the same film over and over again. Barry Lyndon is as unlike anything Kubrick has ever done as it is below the level of anything Kubrick has ever done...
...chief of staff of the armed forces, President Francisco da Costa Gomes warned all organizations in Portugal not to start demonstrations on behalf of the imprisoned leftist soldiers. "We will not be intimidated," his communique read -and this time the leftists were aware that the government would back up words with deeds, and even arms if necessary. The government nationalized all but one of the country's radio and television stations and suspended 30 employees who had urged workers to join in the November revolt...
President Costa Gomes lifted the partial siege that he had imposed on Lisbon during the rebellion, even though military authorities continued to look for 30,000 or so weapons that leftist soldiers claim to have stolen from arsenals and distributed to their civilian allies. Roadblocks were thrown up around the country, and cars were searched. Despite these efforts, however, only some 200 weapons had been recovered by week...
...headed by Premier José Pinheiro de Azevedo. The radical coup failed because the Communist Party hesitated to call masses of workers into the streets as expected and because leading military sympathizers, like Admiral Antonio Rosa ("Red Rosa") Coutinho, responded to a last-minute patriotic call to duty from Costa Gomes and urged their followers not to revolt. Beyond that, the paratroopers inexplicably rebelled a day ahead of schedule, and ludicrous oversights allowed the moderates to retaliate. One group of rebels locked Air Force General Anibal José Pinho Freire, commander of the first Lisbon region, in his quarters-right...