Take a walk through resistance cinema that gets downright Pan-African--brought to you from Afro-Brazil by Carlos Diegues. Love it. (Google won't let me visit his homepage for some reason...but he founded Cinema Novo--you should definitely read about the history of its founding.)
Once you finish reading, check out this 'Quilombo' review from the New York Times, dated March 28, 1986. The reviewer will call it "deliberately idealized."
Heh. Heh. Heh.
Is that right...
Don't get saucy because it's a true story. I know Establishment would love to think of itself as all-corrupting all the time, but sorry, Hon. Not every time.
The 'Ganga Zumba' review is interesting, too, bothering to connect the liberatory dots by mentioning the film's double billing with 'Angela Davis: Portrait of a Revolutionary' in a 1972 NYT Review. The date is rather significant, as it was written only a few short months before Davis was acquitted in the same case that lost Jonathan Jackson's life--hermanito to Soledad Brother, George Jackson. (BECAUSE I KNOW YOU ARE--AT LEAST--GOING TO GOOGLE THIS, AREN'T YOU? Thought so.)
If you're dying to see 'Quilombo', at least, here are some shreds from YouTube. Cinema on purpose. Not surprising that these are so hard to find. Things that make you go hmmmmm...
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