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<-- back And finally, here is the film that tops our list of "Pirate Cinema's Top 3 Hollywood Movies of the 1990s" (*). Our winner was made by a director who, just on the heels of what already seemed like the perfect underdog candidate for a contest like this, managed to outdo himself once again. This is a movie about fascism, and if only one out of a hundred people who went to see Schindler's List would have watched this one instead, the world would be a better place. The genre is vaguely science-fiction, but the setting is fully contemporary. It's a film that shows how teenagers become nazis, it turns from high-school romance into global war drama in a matter of minutes, and what makes it such an outlier, and a visionary piece of cinema, is that it inverts not only the ethics, but also the core ideological function of Hollywood: It refuses to prove that fun is a Stahlbad, and instead demonstrates that a Stahlbad is fun. Sadly, this film has been less influential than it should have been -- we can only think of an art magazine that is named after it. There is also a sequel, and we have taken a look at it (so that you don't have to, and you shouldn't). (*) excluding the usual suspects: nothing by Martin Scorsese or David Lynch, obviously no Quentin Tarantino, and no film we have ever screened before, which rules out Heat, Point Break, Showgirls, Bound and Twelve Monkeys. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- pirate cinema berlin u kottbusser tor sunday, august 28, 8:30 pm 12 seats, rsvp first come first serve location in separate mail -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- () >< pirate cinema berlin www.piratecinema.org <-- back |