![Salvador Allende was a Chilean physician and politician, known as the first Scientific Socialist to become president of a Latin American country through open and democratic elections. And he was the only one politician who pursued the socialist revolution by the peaceful and democratic methods.](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMjI5NjA3MjI1MF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwODY1MDE1MjE@._V1_QL75_UY207_CR17,0,140,207_.jpg)
![Salvador Allende was a Chilean physician and politician, known as the first Scientific Socialist to become president of a Latin American country through open and democratic elections. And he was the only one politician who pursued the socialist revolution by the peaceful and democratic methods.](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMjI5NjA3MjI1MF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwODY1MDE1MjE@._V1_QL75_UY207_CR17,0,140,207_.jpg)
Above: Porto FrancoOne could argue that cinema and ideology are intrinsically linked with each other, even when one regards even the most menial, apparently wholly apolitical films, such as comedies and romantic dramas. But what happens to said cinema when this link is brutally severed by a severely traumatic event, such as a regime change? How does this modulate the understanding of cinema in relation to the two main, and apparently opposite concepts that usually applied to political readings: propaganda and subversion? And how does regime change affect ulterior output and cinematic canons, especially if the fallen regime was actively involved in censorship and oppression of free speech?The history of various national cinemas across the second half of the 20th century, correlated with the histories of various dictatorships which professed loyalties to both sides of the political spectrum, may shed valuable insights to the above questions. By and large,...
- 3/4/2020
- MUBI
"Making Waves: New Romanian Cinema," screening from November 29 through December 5, continues the Film Society of Lincoln Center's annual survey of contemporary Romanian cinema. Films from this country have retained interest among followers of world cinema since the 1990's Romanian New Wave, which introduced audiences to such directors as Cristi Puiu, Corneliu Porumboiu, and Cristian Mungiu, whose latest film Beyond the Hills (pictured above) closes the festival. As usual, the festival features not only new and recent films, but also retrospectives: this year, the films of influential 70s and 80s filmmaker Alexandru Tatos will be featured with a mini-retro of three of his films: Red Apples (1976), Anastasia Gently Passes (1979), and Sequences (1982). This year, the Film Society has admirably made this series more accessible...
- 11/29/2012
- Screen Anarchy
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