Top 5 Political Films
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I'm watching CNN right now, and they asked people to write in their lists of "Top 5 Films About Politics". I went to the CNN website but couldn't find a link to the questionnaire, but if I had I would've submitted (in no particular order):
The Manchurian Candidate
Primary Colors
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
The Candidate
All the President's Men
I'd add An American President but the topic of the film might be seen as a little bit of a "touchy subject" for some Republicans right now.
Please reply with your list of Top 5 Films About Politics, and when I hear CNN's results, I'll post them.
The Manchurian Candidate
Primary Colors
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
The Candidate
All the President's Men
I'd add An American President but the topic of the film might be seen as a little bit of a "touchy subject" for some Republicans right now.
Please reply with your list of Top 5 Films About Politics, and when I hear CNN's results, I'll post them.
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good list...off the top of my head i'd add bulworth.....:)
I've never seen it, but I just looked it up on imdb and it looks like a film I should take a look at. Thanks for the tip!
#1 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
And #2 was one I completely forgot about -- Wag the Dog.
Shame on me.
The Manchurian Candidate
Good Night, and Good Luck
JFK
All The President's Men
You Bet it counts, to me it's a play on what's happening or what might happen in our future.
One event that happens then changes ALL our basic rights going into the future.
Seems quite similar.
"PEOPLE SHOULD NOT BE AFRAID OF THEIR GOVERNMENTS, GOVERNMENTS SHOULD BE AFRAID OF THEIR PEOPLE".
Peace
*MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
.....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti
*The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)
"Dave"
http://www.reverbnation.com/brianzilm
CATCH A FIRE
A movie trailer to CATCH A FIRE Then click on video and you'll see.
THE CONSTANT GARDENER
I loved this Academy Award political thriller from 2005 also filmed in another country that deals with pharmaceutical companies. This one is also filmed in Africa and shows parts of the world we're not so familiar here in the US. This movie was rock solid good.
Here's several trailers and info about the movie so you can get an idea about this film The Constant Gardener.
Editorial Reviews
The Constant Gardener is the kind of thriller that hasn't been seen since the 1970s: Smart, politically complex, cinematically adventurous, genuinely thrilling and even heartbreaking. Mild diplomat Justin Quayle (Ralph Fiennes, The English Patient, Schindler's List) has a loose cannon of a wife named Tessa (Rachel Weisz, The Shape of Things, The Mummy), who's digging into the dirty doings of a major pharmaceutical company in Kenya.
CRY FREEDOM
The true story of the friendship that shook South Africa and awakened the world.
South African journalist Donald Woods is forced to flee the country after attempting to investigate the death in custody of his friend the black activist Steve Biko.
Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 3 wins & 11 nominations
Famous quote from the movie;
Click here for a trailer to the movie CRY FREEDOM. I believe this was Denzel Washington's 3'rd movie who went unto win 2 Academy Awards and 5 nominations. Also, the music written after the movie was done so by Peter Gabriel.
"Biko" is a song by British singer Peter Gabriel, about Steve Biko, a South African anti-apartheid campaigner who died in police custody in 1977. The song was included on his 1980 third album.
"Biko" was first released as a single in 1980, when it reached #38 in the British charts. A live version, recorded in July 1987 at Blossom Music Center in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, and from the soundtrack of the movie Cry Freedom was released in 1987, reaching #49.
THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR
Robert Redford at his best being a very technical actor in this role and pulls off with ease. Here's a trailer to the movie, just click and take a look at 3 Days Of The Condor. Max Von Sydow plays one of the BEST villians in this movie. Just like Marathon Man this movie had the perfect timing of being released in the mid-seventies after Vietnam and the Watergate hysteria made perfect sense.
Three Days of the Condor is a United States motion picture made in 1975. It was produced by Stanley Schneider and directed by Sydney Pollack. The screenplay, by Lorenzo Semple Jr. and David Rayfiel, was adapted from the novel Six Days of the Condor by James Grady.
The movie is a suspense drama set in contemporary New York City, and is considered an exposition of the moral ambiguity of the actions of the United States government following the Vietnam War and Watergate. It stars Robert Redford as an employee of the Central Intelligence Agency who inadvertently becomes involved in a deadly power struggle within the agency.
LAST KING OF SCOTLAND
Lead actor Forrest Whittaker just recently won a Golden Globe Award as well as a Academy Award.
Awards: Won Golden Globe. Another 16 wins & 15 nominations
Tagline: Charming. Magnetic. Murderous.
Plot Outline: Based on the events of the brutal Ugandan dictator Idi Amin's regime as seen by his personal physician during the 1970s
Peace
*MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
.....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti
*The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)
I repeat..Dr Strangelove.
Alternatively, 'The Presidents Analyst' is a hoot. But then I am stoned. Regard everything I say as THE TRUTH!
I love James McEvoy and I really have to see the Last King of Scotland.
My boyfriend mentioned Dr. Strangelove the minute I said "political films" and I'm glad to see others corrected me besides him, lol.
Thank you, all, for the great list of political films I need to see. I'll get on it.
Good night, my fellow PJ fans!
DAMN RIGHT that V for Vendetta counts!
http://forums.pearljam.com/showthread.php?t=272825
seriously.
GREAT. political. great.
Let's just breathe...
I am myself like you somehow
The subversion of a "Republic" and overthrow of soverign government. The use of terror as a con. "The Empire" as a universal government. Fascism. The Police State. Free Will vs. Mind Control.
Anyone?
If I opened it now would you not understand?
My favorite movie ever
I'd throw in "Bob Roberts" as well.
and not just because he opened for pearl jam!
really?
(In no particular order)
1) Cry Freedom
2) Paradise Now
3) V for Vendetta
4) Constant Gardener
5) Hotel Rwanda (does this count)
Stars Wars is def a good pick, Driftin
Seven Years in Tibet
V for Vendetta
Cradle Will Rock
I guess this isn't including docs but I have to mention You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train and The US Vs John Lennon
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
-Oscar Wilde
wise words.
The rest that I would bring up would probably be repeats of what has already been mentioned in this thread.
American President was good in a sorta cheesy way
was like a picture
of a sunny day
“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”
― Abraham Lincoln