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La Prima Linea/The Front Line - pretty decent film about the small Italian armed group of that name. MIles better than crap like baader-meinhoff. Usual approach - showed the self-defeating dynamics of isolated armed struggle, the splits between the harder than hard and those who could see where they were going. The politics of the PL were a lot more interesting that the robo-marxism of the larger groups but this was never really covered.

One odd detail - early in the film when Sergio Segio (the main bloke) opens a draw just before his arrest there's a gun lying besides a copy of Quaderni Rossi - the journal which is seen as the start point for operaismo. Now QR had stopped publishing after only 6 few issues in the mid 60s so i can only assume that this was either a deliberate choice on the part of the film-makers to suggest that the roots of left-wing armed struggle in Italy lay with this group/approach (not with the wider social conditions, the fascists within the state bureaucracy and their strategy of tension etc) - or that it was an accidental mistep in afilm that genmerally kept the historical details accurate. Either way, it jars with the narrative that the film went on to establish - that
PL saw themselves as a direct continuation of 'the men in the mountains' - the partisans, inlcluding a synmbolic (and historically accurate) passover of arms from the latter to the former.
 
butchersapron said:
But a list of shit films doesn't mean he's never made a great film. He's made - or been in - a fair few.
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Yeah, I was just thinking of him recently.

Raising Arizona and Wild at Heart are some of my fav movies.

I just think he's made more shit films that good ones.
From the late 90s, he did some turkeys.
And even more in the 2000s.
Like Travolta, he's defo a movie slag.
He'll make whatever shit if it pays.
 
He has acted badly in more films than he has acted well, but he has done very well in a couple.....and they're mentioned by Butchers - I'd say Birdy was my fave performance of his. Wild at Heart and Red Rock West were the birth of his twitching contorted acting style as the basis for the rest of his career....although Sailor Ripley is a great character to watch.

I think he directed and starred in a film once, can't remember the name and never seen it, but I'd be interested to.
 
terminator salvation. it wasn't boring. i'll give it that.
and it made my mind confused as those films always do.
 
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