Documentary filmmaker Emile de Antonio created a great deal of controversy during his nearly 20 years as a filmmaker by making decidedly Marxist underground films that sharply criticized his native U.S. during the times when the Cold War was still very real.
De Antonio began making documentaries in the mid 1960s. As a filmmaker, he preferred to intricately edit old footage into something new. Many of his films were made without narration because he believed there was something fascist about someone telling the viewer what to think.
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PAINTER'S PAINTING
VHS
116 minutes
A collage of interviews with the luminaries of the New York art scene, many of whom were de Antonio’s close friends. The film highlights de Antonio’s commitments to modernist art; it is also perhaps the best film about paintings ever made.
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UNDERGROUND
VHS
92 minutes
Portrays the life of the Weather Underground Organization, which was near the top of the FBI’s Most Wanted list in the 1970s. The film juxtaposes interviews with the Underground collective with footage of the radical political movements of the time.
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POINT OF ORDER
VHS
97 minutes
*THIS TITLE IS BACKORDERED
The great demagogue, Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, at bay before the establishment. Lawyer Welch: "Have you at long last, sir, no sense of decency?". Silence and the end of a meteoric career.
RUSH TO JUDGEMENT
VHS
110 minutes
Mark Lane and de Antonio, for the first time, create a vivid, frank legal brief which asks the still unanswered question: who killed John F. Kennedy?
Detailed passionate ending.
AMERICA IS HARD TO SEE
VHS
101 minutes
Eugene McCarthy's 1968 Campaign for the presidency. The making of a political alliance against an unpopular war and President. The failure at Chicago. Decisive on the working of Democratic politics from college town to convention.
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IN THE YEAR OF THE PIG
DVD
103 minutes
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From French colonialism and rickshaws to the Vietnamese victory at Dien Bien Phu. And then, the origins and nature of the U.S. commitment from the end of WWII through the offensive of 1968. History, death, battle, ideas as only film can do it, a conspicuous example.
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IN THE YEAR OF THE PIG
VHS
103 minutes
English/ Mono/ 1:33:1
From French colonialism and rickshaws to the Vietnamese victory at Dien Bien Phu. And then, the origins and nature of the U.S. commitment from the end of WWII through the offensive of 1968. History, death, battle, ideas as only film can do it, a conspicuous example.
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MILLHOUSE: A WHITE COMEDY
VHS
93 minutes
A biography in irony, the career and successes of Mr. Nixon from 1946 through "Six Crises" to the days of Kent State. Made before Watergate, the film was placed on the 'enemies list'.
IN THE KING OF PRUSSIA
VHS
92 minutes
Starring Martin Sheen and The Ploughshares 8 in the trial and conviction of peace activists who performed the first act of disarmament since World War II. Not docudrama, but the illusion and reality of the Ploughshares 8 playing themselves and 50 actors playing the court. Music by Jackson Browne.
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MR. HOOVER AND I
VHS
90 minutes.
Pursued by the FBI since a child, de Antonio reflects on his life as a radical filmmaker documenting art and politics during the cold war years.
