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Since 1946 there has been a string of British spies: Alan Nunn May, Klaus Fuchs and Bruno Pontecorvo for atomic secrets, Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess, Kim Philby and Blunt. All seemed too impeccably Establishment to be spies, and so did Hollis...
...possibilities for ordinary working people to take control of their own lives and overcome oppression. This message serves as a powerful source of political comment for everyone I know who has seen the film. The only other political films whose impact is at all comparable are those of Pontecorvo on colonialism--especially Burn (with Brando) and the Battle of Algiers...
...Communist ticket. Former EEC Commissioner Altiero Spinelli and all six of the prominent Roman Catholic laymen (plus a Waldensian priest), who defied Pope Paul VI by running under the sign of the hammer and sickle, also won seats in Parliament. Narrowly defeated, however, was Communist-sponsored Independent Gillo Pontecorvo, the film director whose credits include The Battle of Algiers...
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...
Burn. Why did this film bomb so miserably when it came out in 1970? Whatever picture companies and elements of the people are responsible for this sure acted like terminal morons. Made by Gillo Pontecorvo, who created Battle of Algiers. Starring Marlon Brando as a British secret agent. Filmed in color in the Caribbean with hundreds of extras. About Dutch (or Portugese--can't remember) colonialism and revolt in the 19th century. And very, very fine...