A documentary short subject on the situation in Spain, where a civil war between Fascists and Republican government loyalists has erupted..
Luis Buñuel, Pierre Unik
Spain
Is this for you? If you have any interest in how film was used as a weapon during the thirties, yes, watch it. It’s short, ugly in parts, and moves with a kind of desperate energy. If you are looking for a sanitized, objective timeline of the Spanish Civil War, you’re going to hate this. It’s loud. It’s biased. It’s tr...
Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.
Jean-Paul Le Chanois
Charley Chase
Community
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"Is this for you? If you have any interest in how film was used as a weapon during the thirties, yes, watch it. It’s short, ugly in parts, and moves with a kind of desperate energy. If you are looking for a sanitized, objective timeline of the Spanish Civil War, you’re going to hate this. It’s loud. It’s biased. It’s trying to drag you into the trenches. Luis Buñuel was involved here, which you can sort of feel in the way the cuts jump. It doesn’t flow like a modern doc. It stutters. Sometimes i..."
