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there's no more films like this these days


poetic language.
philosophical
stylish
communistic...

alas...

recommendations?


thanks

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here's one:

Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors (2000)...Directed by Hong Sang-soo

a beautiful b/w Korean film with a distinct Nouvelle Vague flavor...but alas, not much communism to speak of...

This is your receipt for your husband...and this is my receipt for your receipt.

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Communist, hm? Battleship Potemkin, perhaps?

Easier to find are films that critique the capitalist system, such as:

The Discreet Charms of the...
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068361/

Play Time
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062136/

Fight Club
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0137523/

They Live
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096256/



More generally, according to www.theyshootpictures.com, the following are considered "Communist." I've not seen any of these, except Ninotchka, which is really good but not terribly Communist, IMO:

Arsenal (Dovzhenko, Alexander; 1929; USSR)
City of Sadness, A (Hou Hsiao-Hsien; 1989; Taiwan)
Memories of Underdevelopment (Alea, Tomas Gutierrez;
1968; Cuba) 327
Ninotchka (Lubitsch, Ernst; 1939; US)
October/Oktyabar/Ten Days That Shook the World
(Eisenstein, Sergei; 1927; Russia)
Pickup on South Street (Fuller, Sam; 1953; US)
Reds (Beatty, Warren; 1981; US)
Salvatore Giuliano (Rosi, Francesco; 1961; Italy)
To Live/Huozhe (Zhang Yimou; 1994; Hong Kong)
Way We Were, The (Pollack, Sydney; 1973; US)
Numero Deux (Godard, Jean-Luc; 1975; France)


Personally, I find that films from the far left worldview tend to be overly didactic, but they made some very pretty films.

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see, the problem is clear
no more quality films like these after 2000...

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This biography of Leaud

http://imdb.com/name/nm0529543/bio

gives modern, 'New New Wave' directors whose movies you might try.

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Bulworth.

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just get some kitano..

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There are many films that are the descriptions you had listed. There always have been and there always will be. However, these days (for the past 35+ years) these types of films are outside of Hollywood and the United States. Hollywood is too much separated from the real film world now, that you shouldn't even consider it anymore, if you're looking for real films.

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I would say "The Virgin Suicides" plays like a French film. If I didn't read the novel, I would swear it was an American remake of...something. It just has that European feel to it.

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked.

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