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"Usable Pasts" (March 2019)

by yadhav13 • Created 6 years ago • Modified 6 years ago
A list of movies the class presented (also those referred to) for the course 'Practice and Pragmatics of Representation of the Past in Media' on 11/03/19 (and beyond).
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  • María Isabel Díaz Lago, Antonio Monroi, Mayra Serbulo, Pepe Suárez, Gerardo Taracena, Raoul Max Trujillo, Jonathan Brewer, Hiram Soto, Morris Birdyellowhead, Rudy Youngblood, Dalia Hernández, Sayuri Gutierrez, Ricardo Diaz Mendoza, Carlos Emilio Báez, Israel Ríos, Ariel Galvan, Iazua Larios, Amilcar Ramírez, Bernardo Ruiz, Espiridion Acosta Cache, Itandehui Gutierrez, Israel Contreras, Lorena Heranandez, Rodolfo Palacios, and Carlos Ramos in Apocalypto (2006)

    1. Apocalypto

    20062h 19mR68Metascore
    7.8 (347K)
    As the Mayan kingdom faces its decline, a young man is taken on a perilous journey to a world ruled by fear and oppression.
    DirectorMel GibsonStarsGerardo TaracenaRaoul Max TrujilloDalia Hernández
  • Lily James in War & Peace (2016)

    2. War & Peace

    20166 epsTV-14TV Mini Series
    8.1 (28K)
    As the Russian conflict with Napoleon reaches its peak, five aristocratic families face the possibility of their lives being changed forever.
    StarsPaul DanoJames NortonLily James
  • 1957: Hati Malaya (2007)

    3. 1957: Hati Malaya

    20072h 15m
    7.7 (43)
    Hali (Rusdi Ramli), Salmi (Maya Karin), Rafik (Adlin Aman Ramlie), Ani (Sharifah Amani) and Ang Lee (Douglas Lim), represent the young generation of Malaysia who come from different backgrounds and thoughts, trying to publish a picture book 1957 - Hati Malaya. In that search, they found love, friendship, loyalty and understanding the struggle of 1957. They really delved into and embodied the characters and events with full of emotion and took them to the time when the spirit of the Malay people rose up to demand independence - ordinary poor and backward people in British colonial era who wanted to be a first class nation in their own land. They fell in love and found love for the country beyond their personal emotional feelings.
    DirectorShuhaimi BabaStarsMaya KarinRusdi RamliKamarulzaman Taib
  • Sarafina! (1992)

    4. Sarafina!

    19921h 57mPG-13
    6.3 (2.4K)
    South African teenagers fight against apartheid in the Soweto Uprising.
    DirectorDarrell RoodtStarsWhoopi GoldbergLeleti KhumaloMiriam Makeba
  • Sergey Bodrov in Brother (1997)

    5. Brother

    19971h 39m
    7.8 (27K)
    An ex-soldier with a personal honor code enters the family crime business in St. Petersburg, Russia.
    DirectorAleksey BalabanovStarsSergey BodrovViktor SukhorukovSvetlana Pismichenko
  • Julia Ormond and Oleg Menshikov in The Barber of Siberia (1998)

    6. The Barber of Siberia

    19983h
    7.6 (13K)
    At the turn of the century, a young Russian cadet falls in love with an American beauty, endangering his career and even their lives.
    DirectorNikita MikhalkovStarsJulia OrmondOleg MenshikovAleksey Petrenko
  • Clear Skies (1961)

    7. Clear Skies

    19611h 50mNot Rated
    7.2 (505)
    During the 1950s Sasha Lvova reminisces about the WW2 years when she fell in love with Soviet fighter pilot Aleksei Astakhov.
    DirectorGrigoriy ChukhrayStarsNina DrobyshevaEvgeniy UrbanskiyNatalya Kuzmina
  • Eiji Okada and Emmanuelle Riva in Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959)

    8. Hiroshima Mon Amour

    19591h 30mNot Rated
    7.8 (38K)
    A French actress filming an anti-war film in Hiroshima has an affair with a married Japanese architect as they share their differing perspectives on war.
    DirectorAlain ResnaisStarsEmmanuelle RivaEiji OkadaStella Dassas
  • Little Big Soldier (2010)

    9. Little Big Soldier

    20101h 36mPG-13
    6.8 (16K)
    An old soldier kidnaps a young General of an enemy state and takes him on a long journey to collect the reward.
    DirectorSheng DingStarsJackie ChanLeehom WangYoo Seung-jun
  • Neulovimye mstiteli (1967)

    10. Neulovimye mstiteli

    19671h 18m
    7.3 (2.1K)
    Teenagers take revenge on cruel chieftains during the civil war. Soviet blockbuster in the best traditions of the western
    DirectorEdmond KeosayanStarsVasiliy VasilevViktor KosykhValentina Kurdyukova
  • Twenty Years Later (1984)

    11. Twenty Years Later

    19841h 59m
    8.3 (1.9K)
    A filmmaker returns to Northeast Brazil after twenty years to resume his film (a profile of assassinated peasant leader João Pedro Teixeira) which was shut down by a right-wing military coup in 1964.
    DirectorEduardo CoutinhoStarsEduardo CoutinhoElizabeth TeixeiraFerreira Gullar
  • They Shall Not Grow Old (2018)

    12. They Shall Not Grow Old

    20181h 39mR91Metascore
    8.2 (40K)
    A documentary about World War I with never-before-seen footage to commemorate the centennial of the end of the war.
    DirectorPeter JacksonStarsThomas AdlamWilliam ArgentJohn Ashby
  • Jeroen van Koningsbrugge in Riphagen (2016)

    13. Riphagen

    20162h 11m
    7.1 (9.1K)
    The story about Riphagen, a cunning Dutch traitor during WW2 who helped Nazi round up Jews, stealing their treasures for himself. He destroyed Resistance groups, making many who pursued justice after the war look like fools.
    DirectorPieter KuijpersStarsGuido PollemansAnna RaadsveldHuub Smit
  • Henrik Gawkowski in Shoah (1985)

    14. Shoah

    19859h 26mNot Rated99Metascore
    8.7 (11K)
    Claude Lanzmann's epic documentary recounts the story of the Holocaust through interviews with witnesses - perpetrators as well as survivors.
    DirectorClaude LanzmannStarsSimon SrebnikMichael PodchlebnikMotke Zaïdl
  • Gajraj Rao in Black Friday (2004)

    15. Black Friday

    20042h 23mNot Rated76Metascore
    8.4 (23K)
    A film about the investigations following the 1993 serial Bombay bomb blasts, told through the different stories of the people involved --police, conspirators, victims, middlemen.
    DirectorAnurag KashyapStarsKay Kay MenonPawan MalhotraAditya Srivastav
  • Dnevnye zvyozdy (1968)

    16. Dnevnye zvyozdy

    19681h 34m
    7.1 (57)
    The film is based on the autobiographical book "Day Stars" published in 1959 by the Leningrad writer Olga Bergholz, who survived the most difficult years of the siege in the besieged city. It was during this period that she created some of her best works, including poems dedicated to the defense of Leningrad.
    DirectorIgor TalankinStarsAlla DemidovaAndrei PopovKonstantin Baranov
  • The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)

    17. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

    19662h 58mR90Metascore
    8.8 (862K)
    A bounty-hunting scam joins two men in an uneasy alliance against a third in a race to find a fortune in gold buried in a remote cemetery.
    DirectorSergio LeoneStarsClint EastwoodEli WallachLee Van Cleef
  • Empire of the Sun (1987)

    18. Empire of the Sun

    19872h 33mPG62Metascore
    7.7 (139K)
    A young English boy struggles to survive under Japanese occupation of China during World War II.
    DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsChristian BaleJohn MalkovichMiranda Richardson
  • The Humorist (2019)

    19. The Humorist

    20191h 40m
    6.5 (1.2K)
    The Humorist is a film about a week in the life of Boris Arkadiev, a fictional Soviet stand-up comedian. Boris is tormented not only by external oppression and censorship but also by his own insecurities that poison all his relationships.
    DirectorMichael IdovStarsAleksey AgranovichYuri KolokolnikovAlisa Khazanova
  • Elizabeth McGovern, Maggie Smith, Hugh Bonneville, Brendan Coyle, Joanne Froggatt, Penelope Wilton, Allen Leech, Michelle Dockery, Laura Carmichael, Lily James, Fifi Hart, and Oliver Barker in Downton Abbey (2010)

    20. Downton Abbey

    2010–201552 epsTV-PGTV Series
    8.7 (236K)
    A chronicle of the lives of the British aristocratic Crawley family and their servants in the early twentieth century.
    CreatorJulian FellowesStarsHugh BonnevillePhyllis LoganElizabeth McGovern
    ***12/03/19***
  • Tom Hanks, Matt Damon, Tom Sizemore, and Edward Burns in Saving Private Ryan (1998)

    21. Saving Private Ryan

    19982h 49mR91Metascore
    8.6 (1.6M)
    Following the Normandy Landings, a group of U.S. soldiers go behind enemy lines to retrieve a paratrooper whose comrades have been killed in action.
    DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsTom HanksMatt DamonTom Sizemore
  • Jim Caviezel in The Passion of the Christ (2004)

    22. The Passion of the Christ

    20042h 7mR47Metascore
    7.3 (265K)
    Depicts the final twelve hours in the life of Jesus of Nazareth, on the day of his crucifixion in Jerusalem.
    DirectorMel GibsonStarsJim CaviezelMonica BellucciMaia Morgenstern
  • Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi, and Giorgio Cantarini in Life Is Beautiful (1997)

    23. Life Is Beautiful

    19971h 56mPG-1358Metascore
    8.6 (784K)
    When an open-minded Jewish waiter and his son become victims of the Holocaust, he uses a perfect mixture of will, humor and imagination to protect his son from the dangers around their camp.
    DirectorRoberto BenigniStarsRoberto BenigniNicoletta BraschiGiorgio Cantarini
  • Stalingrad (1993)

    24. Stalingrad

    19932h 14mNot Rated
    7.5 (39K)
    The story follows a group of German soldiers, from their Italian R&R in the summer of 1942 to the frozen steppes of Soviet Russia and ending with the battle for Stalingrad.
    DirectorJoseph VilsmaierStarsDominique HorwitzThomas KretschmannJochen Nickel
  • Full Metal Jacket (1987)

    25. Full Metal Jacket

    19871h 56mR78Metascore
    8.2 (827K)
    A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.
    DirectorStanley KubrickStarsMatthew ModineR. Lee ErmeyVincent D'Onofrio

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