White-knuckle thriller, history lesson, polemical mass-media critique, genre-bending docudrama: British provocateur Peter Watkins' "La Commune (Paris 1871)," the 12th film in a thematically consistent ...

Peter Watkins’s huge (and we mean huge) pseudo-documentary experiment places vérité newsreel crews in the midst of the Paris commune uprisings of 1871. As if that weren’t incongruous enough, Watkins ...

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Tout public. Séance organisée avec le soutien des Amis de la commune de Paris 1871. Film réalisé en 2003 par le Lannionnais Daniel Ropars. Découverte du Landy, un centre de tri de courrier ...

Americans are notoriously dense when it comes to history. But if all history lessons were as compelling as English writer/director Peter Watkins’ docudrama about the Paris Commune, then maybe that ...

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This past fall, Richard Porton's celebrated text Film and the Anarchist Imagination was re-released in a new and expanded edition. To celebrate, Anthology Film Archives has collaborated with Porton ...

Mehdi Lallaoui's documentary begins where it all ended, in New Caledonia, with images of the ruins of the penal colony where many Commune insurgents were deported, including Louise Michel. The ...