films
“Battleship Potemkin,” next up of Ten Films That Shook the World
March 17, 2017This screening is part of a monthly film series to commemorate and celebrate the 100th anniversary of the February and October 1917 Revolutions in Russia.
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Enjoying Bolshevik films and hoping for socialism
March 7, 2017Out here in rural western Wisconsin, the work of People’s World keeps the flame alive in my heart that we can move beyond the current ultra-right, so-called “populist” regime.
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“Get Out”: New film shows the horror of white liberals’ racism
February 27, 2017"Get Out" directly confronts the violence of white liberalism, allowing us to fully experience the sweeping pervasiveness of racism beyond ultra-right fascist tropes.
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Ten films that shook the world: The Russian Revolution centennial
February 22, 2017The programmer and co-presenter of “Ten Films That Shook the World” is film historian and critic Ed Rampell.
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Totem and Taboo and Tanna: A Melanesian Romeo and Juliet
February 13, 2017"Tanna" dispels the simplistic notion that “primitive” people living in a state of nature inhabited problem-free paradises.
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