The Goonstation Movie Club

[Huff H Law]

Hey, Hufflaw here with the 10th post in a row! Talking about movies! Me and Nitrous (The OP of this wonderful thread) watch good movies now! And hell, if you want to watch good movies as well with two or maybe more internet strangers, why not join us!

Tomorrow's Movie!

Shortly after the 1959 Cuban revolution overthrew the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista, the socialist Castro government, isolated by the United States after the latter broke diplomatic and trade relations in 1961, turned to the USSR for film partnerships. The Soviet government, interested in promoting international socialism, agreed to finance a film about the Cuban revolution.

Why are we watching a movie about the Cuban revolution? Well other than the obvious it's apparently:

I Am Cuba (Spanish: Soy Cuba; Russian: Я Куба, Ya Kuba) is a 1964 Soviet-Cuban film directed by Mikhail Kalatozov at Mosfilm. The film was not received well by either the Russian or Cuban public[1] and was almost completely forgotten until it was re-discovered by filmmakers in the United States thirty years later.[1] The acrobatic tracking shots and idiosyncratic mise en scene prompted Hollywood directors like Martin Scorsese to begin a campaign to restore the film in the early 1990s.

The film is shot in black and white, sometimes using infrared film obtained from the Soviet military[2] to exaggerate contrast (making trees and sugar cane almost white, and skies very dark but still obviously sunny). Most shots are in extreme wide-angle and the camera passes very close to its subjects, whilst still largely avoiding having those subjects ever look directly at the camera.

So it ought to be interesting!

We're watching this tomorrow at 19:00 GMT+1, if you don't know when that is then you're in luck! 

I made a countdown https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/ta...sive&csz=1

Oh yeah right, forgot to explain it: be sure to be on #goonstation on Synirc.net before that time and we'll explain things more in detail there. See you!