Left Wing Litany of films

[Otto]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dave Monroe" <monropolitan at yahoo.com>
To: "Toby G Levy" <tobylevy at juno.com>; <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 10:52 PM
Subject: Re: Left Wing Litany of films


> I was glad to see Starship Troopers in there, but what
> happened to the Soviets?  Sergei Eisenstein's Strike
> (1925) et al.?  And I recall an essay on The Parallax
> View in Fredric Jameson's The Geopolitcal Aesthetic
> ...
>
> --- Toby G Levy <tobylevy at juno.com> wrote:
> >
> > To go along with my post of last week that sparked
> > some interesting discussion,'
> >
> > here's a list of the 50 best left wing movies:
> >
> > http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=18813
>

I was happy to find:

"Punishment Park (1971) Brit dystopian Peter Watkins prophecizes the
Ashcroft effect: Vietnam-era protestors and lefties are arrested, tried
tribunally and surreptitiously executed in the desert."

Otto