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Intro by Martin Scorsese
Intro by Tyler Knudsen
No Film School
Europa '51 / Roberto Rossellini
The topic of Europa '51 is typical Rossellini: A socialite, Irene (Bergman) loses her young son and the tragedy plunges her into a search for meaning. A communist relative introduces her to the lives of poor people, whom she soon begins to help. Eventually, once clear about what she wants to do with her life, she becomes unable to function in bourgeois society and her increasingly "strange" behaviour prompts her husband and relatives to think she has lost her mind. This is adult cinema, not exactly the kind of movie we could ever expect from an American director. Especially these days of near-total neoliberal escapism and wholesale infantilization.
Bicycle Thieves / Vittorio de Sica
Below, one of De Sica's classics, Bicycle Thieves (1948).
^3000US citizens have no real political representation.
We don't live in a democracy. And our freedom is disappearing fast.
I don't want to be ruled by hypocrites, whores, and war criminals.
What about you? Time to push back against the corporate oligarchy.
And its multitude of minions and lackeys.
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