June on theanarchistcinema - Green-Anarchy

June films flyer

from http://theanarchistcinema.org/blog/june/

We are happy to announce that selections have been made for green-anarchy month on theanarchistcinema.org! The schedule and list of titles is as follows:

Princess Mononoke (1997) — June 5th
Alone in the Wilderness (2004) — June 12th
Night Moves (2013) — June 19th
Stalker (1979) — June 26th

Screenings will start at our regular time of 23:00 EST and will run for a week. Check back later in May for synopses and other info about the films. Thanks to everyone who made suggestions!
We will likely have to do another green-anarchy month at some point with more of a focus on documentaries if there is interest, we avoided them this time around in the hope that the interpretations we form will live longer than just engaging in pure fact ingestion. We really look forward to hearing what you all think so get in touch.

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If they wanna catch up to a "system" it's just their problem. A sound system is fine tho.

Assuming you mean chat? There a matrix room linked at the bottom of the page

I enjoyed Princess Mononoke more than many other animes. Night Moves sounds like I movie I saw, but I don't remember those actors. It didn't like it as much as I anticipated. I'd like to see Stalker, and I might watch Alone in the Wilderness.

Night Moves is a contemplative, slow-paced hitchcockian film, and in so it might not be for all tastes especially if you're looking for cheesy entertainment with frantic editing. Mostly enjoyable for the realism, which is a rare find in US movies. Also as a reflection on what it means to be some crazy radical insurgent in the current North America, instead of Sacco & Vanzetti's America.

Maybe not perfect, but one of the very rare, tiny few films on radicalism that don't suck ass.

Yeah, the radicals are revealed to be just as indoctrinated as their socalled enemies, embedded within their ego-identity self-image are the contradictions, the amiable timid traitor, the psychotic animal lovers, the misfit who can't get laid at the extreme end of the binary spectrum. Individuals have only themselves to blame, and this honesty and self-awareness makes them shine.

Ok lemme see here.

So, egoist wrong socialist good...

Amicable bad, edgy hostile good...

Discrete/introvert bad, loud-talking extrovert, GOOD...

Misfit who can't manage to get laid... obviously bad, but normie who gets laid easily, good.

Animal lover, wrong, but brutal animal killer, good.

So... "loooosers" Vs winners.

Got it.

...or maybe it's just your unclear writing.

Excellent choices. Too much of "radical film" is just conventional Hollywood fare, simplistic black & white morality tales. Tarkovsky and Reichardt offer something else.

A few other suggestions a little off the beaten path of what anarchists often screen: Jonas Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000; Blue Collar; Medium Cool; Running on Empty; The Green Beautiful; Vanishing Point; Brewster McCloud.

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