CHAPPAQUIDDICK DROWNS MORE THAN MARY JO KOPECHNE The Kennedy curse may have accounted for the death of the first Kennedy son and the assassination of the next two Kennedys, but not for what happened to Ted Kennedy (played by Jason Clarke) on the night of July 18, 1969. At 11 p.m., after a party with a […]
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THE DEATH OF STALIN IS SERIOUS . . . BUT LAUGHABLE? Leave it to an Italian director, Armando Iannucci, to make fun of one of the landmark events of the twentieth century—the death of Josef Stalin (played by Adrian McLoughlin). Although The Death of Stalin subtitles all members of Stalin’s cabinet (Politburo) as they make their appearance, the
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THE DEATH OF STALIN IS SERIOUS . . . BUT LAUGHABLE? Leave it to an Italian director, Armando Iannucci, to make fun of one of the landmark events of the twentieth century—the death of Josef Stalin (played by Adrian McLoughlin). Although The Death of Stalin subtitles all members of Stalin’s cabinet (Politburo) as they make their appearance, the
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THE YOUNG KARL MARX IS NOT BABYFOOD Those attending The Young Karl Marx might expect to see a baby become an infant, a teenager, and emerge as an adult. But Haitian-born director Raoul Peck, whose film Lumumba received a Political Film Society nomination, starts the film in 1843, when Karl Marx (played by August Diehl) was about 25 years old,
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WINNING FILMS OF 2017 ANNOUNCED Members of the Political Film Society voted during February to choose the best films of 2017 in four categories. Here are the films with the most favorable votes: Democracy: A United Kingdom, directed by Amma Asante Exposé: War Machine, directed by David Michôd Human Rights:
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VOTING CONTINUES TO SELECT THE BEST POLITICAL FILMS OF 2017 Each year the Political Film Society gives awards for the best politically oriented films. Film directors receive the actual awards. Accordingly, ballots below appear for all four categories of awards: For the category DEMOCRACY, promoting increasing consciousness of the need for more political decisionmaking by the people
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VOTING BEGINS TO SELECT THE BEST POLITICAL FILMS OF 2017 Each year the Political Film Society gives awards for the best politically oriented films. Film directors receive the actual awards. Accordingly, ballots below appear for all four categories of awards: For the category DEMOCRACY, promoting increasing consciousness of the need for more political decisionmaking by the people
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VOTING CONTINUES ON NOMINATIONS FOR BEST POLITICAL FILMS OF 2017 Each year the Political Film Society gives awards for the best politically oriented films, and 2017 has many more than 2016. Political Film Society rules require the number of nominated films to be reduced to five in each category. Accordingly, a ballot below: There were
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POLLS CLOSE ON NOMINATIONS FOR BEST POLITICAL FILMS OF 2017 December 31 was the last day to nominate films for Political Film Society awards for 2017. Political Film Society rules require the number of nominated films to be reduced to five in each category. Accordingly, a ballot below: There were only four films nominated for
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THE POST CELEBRATES MORE THAN FREEDOM OF THE PRESS When The Post begins, Daniel Ellsberg (played by Matthew Rhys) is with a unit of soldiers in Vietnam in 1966, finding out that the Viet Cong rule the country in the night. One day, while flying home on Air Force One, Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara (Bruce Greenwood) summons