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VOTING TO NARROW THE LISTS OF BEST FILMS FOR 2021 CONTINUES There were seventeen nominated films in 2021 as filmviewing opened up around the world. Political Film Society rules, based as they are on the Academy Award rules, require a maximum of five films in each category. To narrow the lists, members are entitled to […]

IF YOU SEE DON’T LOOK UP, YOU MAY LAUGH OR JUST BE DISGUSTED Don’t Look Up, directed by Adam McKay, is supposed to be a satire of life in the United States from the humblest to the mightiest. During the Obama Administration, a mission to explore an asteroid was launched, though plans did not come

AMEN. IS THE BEST FILM ABOUT THE HOLOCAUST EVER MADE On January 30, 2003, a film was released in Hollywood and soon nominated by the Political Film Society for best film exposé and best film on human rights for the year. A second review of that biopic/docudrama follows: Amen. begins during 1940, in early years

AS NOMINATIONS CLOSE FOR BEST FILMS OF 2021, VOTING TO NARROW THE LISTS BEGINS There were seventeen nominated films in 2021 as filmviewing opened up around the world. Political Film Society rules, based as they are on Academy Award rules, require a maximum of five films in each category. To narrow the lists, members are

BEING THE RICARDOS IS MORE ABOUT LUCY THAN RICKY Life in Hollywood is often chaotic. Many persons work through their personal ambitions and tensions on a day-to-day basis by playing acting roles, but they may never reach their secret goals. Being the Ricardos, directed by Aaron Sorkin, is a window into that life, serving mostly

PRESIDENT DEMONSTRATES WHY AUTOCRACIES PERSIST Imagine that Donald Trump has won the 2024 election but resigns due to poor health in 2027 and his vice president becomes president. Then in 2028 his Republican successor runs against the Democratic presidential candidate. The latter runs a popular campaign, with large mass rallies, to return to office in

MARGRETE: QUEEN OF THE NORTH CELEBRATES HOW PEACE IS MADE Directed by Charlotte Sieling, Margrete: Queen of the North, is a biopic of the one who brought peace to Scandinavia in the fifteenth century. As queen of Denmark, she married the king of Norway, but became regent of both countries when both kings died. She

FLEE TRACES THE PERILS OF REFUGEE SEEKERS What is it like to be a refugee seeking a new life, coping with the need for self-preservation while confronting horrors along with way? Directed by Jonas Poher Rasmussen, Flee is a docudrama of the actul life of a fictionalized Amin Nawabi (voiced by Daniel Karimyar at ages

BETRAYED REVEALS THE FATE OF JEWS IN NAZI-CONTROLLED NORWAY Directed by Eirik Svensson, Betrayed begins with a Nazi roundup of Jews in 1942 and quickly reverts to 1939, when Charles Braude (played by Jakob Oftebro) wins against a Swedish opponent in a boxing match. Afterward, he celebrates with many friends, including a girlfriend, Ragnhild Boyesen

HOUSE OF GUCCI REVEALS LIFE AMONG THE ULTRARICH Directed by Ridley Scott, House of Gucci is a window into the rise and fall of the Gucci “dynasty,” based on the 2001 book The House of Gucci: A Sensational Story of Murder, Madness, Glamour, and Greed by Sara Gay Forden. Guccio, the founder of the company,