All Power To The Imagination
No, not Dave Douglass book of that title!
All Power To The Imagination is a season of films across London, from now until June, devoted to 1968 and its legacy. Given Britain's pathetic contribution to events that year, it hardly seems appropriate to mark such an anniversary in London, but the 1968 season does just that.
Flicking through the programme, it is resplendent with superbly pretentious French titles, but don't let my cynicism put you off. The 28th April sees "Mr Freedom" which De Gaulle banned as it showed a France in danger of falling to Communism, whilst the May bank holiday weekend shows well known classics such as "The Battle of Algiers" and Issac Julien's study of Fanon. However, given she talked up Ken Livingstone when she visited London earlier this year, I shall probably miss Yolande du Luart's study of Angela Davis.............
Tuesday 6 May features Gordon Carr's 1973 BBC documentary on the Angry Brigade (at the Barbican), and May 16th shows John Thaw in the brilliant "Praise Marx and Pass The Ammunition" - get along early and boo Tariq Ali, who will be introducing the film! The film which intrigues me most is Toshio Matsumoto's "Funeral Parade of Roses" which is given the following write-up:
"Perhaps the most radical - and remarkable - response to the 1968 unrest in Tokyo, a hyper-conscious, hugely inventive and queer reworking of the Oedipus myth set amongst Black GIs and Japanese hippies."
Beat that!
praise marx and pass the ammunition! I rememeber watching that on channel 4 years ago!
it was so odd that I thought I was dreaming it!
Posted by: darren redstar | April 16, 2008 at 02:08 PM