Word: ests
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Burn! is playing at the Greek Action Group's Political Film Festival this weekend instead of La Guerre Est Finie because of scheduling conflicts, and the switch is a fortuitous one. Gillio Pontecorvo made Burn! in 1970, five years after making Battle of Algiers, and although this latter fictional account of 19th century colonialism is a different sort of film than the realistic 1965 classic, it exhibits signs of the same intelligence and the same cinemagraphic beauty. Marlon Brando stars as an Englishman who inspires revolution in a Carribean Portuguese colony in order to open up the island to British...
...Guerre Est Finie isn't playing at the Science Center because it's playing at the Brattle, and it's really too good and too intelligent a movie to miss. Alain Resnais directed and Yves Montand starred in this account of the trials and tribulations of the Old Left revolutionary, and the sympathetic understanding they convey about politics as a vocation surpasses a lot of the stuff sociologists have written on the subject...
Thru Tues.: La Guerre Est Finie, 6, 9:45 and Viridiana...
Starts Wed.: LaGuerre Est Finie, 6, 9:45 and Viridiana...
Virdiana is the co-feature at the Brattle this week, playing with La Guerre Est Finie. Luis Bunuel made this film in 1961, his first in Spain since Franco threw him out at the end of the Civil War. Franco's generosity was not too long-lasting. The dictator, who is about to go to his just deserts, so disapproved of Bunuel's anti-clericism that he banned the film from his country's movie houses. Anything Franco doesn't like can't be too bad; this is actually quite good...