Civil Rights and Politics, 1960s to 1990s

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Spike Lee</div> <div> On a hot day on a New York City street, everyone's hate and bigotry smoulders and builds until it explodes into violence.</div> <div> <A HREF="http://us.imdb.com/Title?0097216" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://us.imdb.com/Title?0097216"><U><U>http://us.imdb.com/Title?0097216</U></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <I>Malcolm X</I>, dir. Spike Lee (see previous ALO list)</div> <bR> <div> <I>American History X</I>, 1998, dir. Tony Kaye</div> <div> A former neo-nazi skinhead (Norton) tries to prevent his younger brother (Furlong) from going down the same wrong path that he did</div> <div> <A HREF="http://us.imdb.com/Title?0120586" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://us.imdb.com/Title?0120586"><U><U>http://us.imdb.com/Title?0120586</U></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <I>Thunderheart</I>, 1992, dir. Michael Apted</div> <div> <A HREF="http://us.imdb.com/Title?0105585" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://us.imdb.com/Title?0105585"><U><U>http://us.imdb.com/Title?0105585</U></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <I>Incident at Oglala</I>, 1992, dir. Michael Apted</div> <div> <A HREF="http://us.imdb.com/Title?0104504" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://us.imdb.com/Title?0104504"><U><U>http://us.imdb.com/Title?0104504</U></U></A></div> <div> Documentary about Leonard Peltier (you know, the guy that Rage Against the Machine tell you about in their video for “Killing in the Name.”    Roger Ebert:  Leonard Peltier is locked inside Leavenworth Prison, and there is every reason to suspect he does not belong there - that he did not commit the murders for which he has been jailed, and that he was framed because he had the misfortune to be a highly visible American Indian leader at a time when the federal government was under great pressure to find and indict one. <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >  </FONT>That is the bottom line of "Incident at Oglala," a documentary about events that began with the demonstrations at Wounded Knee in 1973 and continue to this day. The movie was produced and narrated by Robert Redford, who has been an advocate of Peltier's innocence since the early 1980s, and was directed by Michael Apted, whose fiction film "Thunderheart" takes place in roughly the same area.</div> <bR> <div> <I>Smoke Signals</I>, 1998, dir. Chris Eyre</div> <div> <A HREF="http://us.imdb.com/Title?0120321" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://us.imdb.com/Title?0120321"><U><U>http://us.imdb.com/Title?0120321</U></U></A></div> <div> A funny, heartwarming film about growing up, friendship and forgiveness.</div> <div> Roger Ebert:    ``Smoke Signals'' comes billed as the first feature written, directed, co-produced and acted by American Indians. It hardly seems necessary to even announce that: The film is so relaxed about its characters, so much at home in their world, that we sense it's an inside job. .. ``Smoke Signals'' was written by Sherman Alexie, based on his book ``The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven.'' He has a good ear for speech, and he allows his characters to refer to the real world, to TV and pop culture and the movies. (The reserved Victor, impatient with Thomas's chatter, accuses him of having learned most of what he knows about Indians by watching ``Dances With Wolves,'' and advises him to spend more time ``looking stoic.'') </div> <bR> <div> <I>Bulworth</I>, 1998, dir. Warren Beatty</div> <div> <A HREF="http://us.imdb.com/Title?0118798" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://us.imdb.com/Title?0118798"><U><U>http://us.imdb.com/Title?0118798</U></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <I>The Doors</I>, 1991, dir. Oliver Stone</div> <div> <A HREF="http://us.imdb.com/Title?0101761" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://us.imdb.com/Title?0101761"><U><U>http://us.imdb.com/Title?0101761</U></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <I>Three Kings</I>, 1999, dir. David O. Russell</div> <div> <A HREF="http://us.imdb.com/Title?0120188" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://us.imdb.com/Title?0120188"><U><U>http://us.imdb.com/Title?0120188</U></U></A></div> <div> In the aftermath of the Gulf War, 4 soldiers set out to steal gold that was stolen from Kuwait, but they discover people who need their help.</div> <bR> <div> <I>Erin Brockovich</I>, 2000, dir. Steven Soderbergh</div> <div> <A HREF="http://us.imdb.com/Title?0195685" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://us.imdb.com/Title?0195685"><U><U>http://us.imdb.com/Title?0195685</U></U></A></div> <div> An unemployed single mother becomes a legal assistant and almost single-handedly brings down a California power company accused of polluting a city's water supply.</div> <bR> <div> <I>Natural Born Killers</I>, 1994, dir. Oliver Stone</div> <div> <A HREF="http://us.imdb.com/Title?0110632" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://us.imdb.com/Title?0110632"><U><U>http://us.imdb.com/Title?0110632</U></U></A></div> <div> We are becoming a society more interested in crime and scandal than in anything else - more than in politics and the arts, certainly, and maybe even more than sports, unless crime is our new national sport…<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > </FONT>If that's true, then Stone's movie is about the latest all-Americans, Mickey and Mallory (Woody Harrelson and Juliette Lewis), two mass murderers who go on a killing spree across America, making sure everybody knows their names, so they get credit for their crimes. (Terrorists always claim "credit" rather than "blame.") The movie is not simply about their killings, however, but also about the way they electrify the media and exhilarate the public. (One teenager tells the TV cameras, "Mass murder is wrong. But if I were a mass murderer, I'd be Mickey and Mallory!")  - Roger Ebert</div> <div> <I>Pulp Fiction</I>, 1994, dir. Quentin Tarantino</div> <div> <A HREF="http://us.imdb.com/Title?0110912" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://us.imdb.com/Title?0110912"><U><U>http://us.imdb.com/Title?0110912</U></U></A></div> <div> This movie's not on the list for its subject matter, except in so far as its subject is Hollywood films and film making.  If you choose to view/review it for class, you will have to look into the “old movies” which it parodies and use your film analysis skills that you've developed in American Studies this year.</div> <div> Roger Ebert:  It is part of the folklore that Tarantino used to work as a clerk in a video store, and the inspiration for "Pulp Fiction" is old movies, not real life. The movie is like an excursion through the lurid images that lie wound up and trapped inside all those boxes on the Blockbuster shelves.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>