Cinema Italia: Many Years Ago

Cancelled: Sunday, 27 October

Cinema Italia: Many Years Ago

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Many Years Ago (1970) * Directed by Francesco Rosi * 101 min * In Italian with English subtitles * doors open at 20:00, film starts at 20:30. After the film, please engage in sharing comments, ideas, and inspiration with the host(s) of the evening!

Set in the First World War for its pacifist and anti-militarist message, it was boycotted from cinemas on its release. The general's orders ridicule the high command and show the inhumanity of the conflict, while soldiers represent the ideal types of conflicting political and social ideas such as monarchy and socialism, which have to coexist at the front. The film's dramatic tone, which distances it from the book on which it was inspired, was harshly criticised at the time of its release. Looking at it through today's lenses -- more than 50 years later -- it is more relevant than ever. In fact, over a century has passed since the events recounted, in the year 1916 on the Asiago Plateau; however, the contrast between the war of generals and the war of simple soldiers sweeps away the false myth of the war hero because the enemy is not the enemy soldiers but their own commanders.

Date & Time: 

Sunday, 27 October, 2024 - 20:30
Joe's Garage
Pretoriusstraat 43
1092 EZ Amsterdam
Netherlands

Directions: 

Train station Amsterdam Muiderpoort, 10 minutes walk --- Metro station Wibaustraat, 15 minutes walk --- Tram 19 or Bus 41, Bus/tramhalte: Oostpoort, 1 minute walk

Squat: 

Presently squatted

Since June 2005, Joe's Garage is an autonomous squatted political social center, a meeting place in the Transvaal neighborhood for squatters and non-squatters, subsidy free, not for profit, self-organized and entirely run by volunteers.

categories: 

  • advice/help/office hours / book shop/info shop/library / course/workshop / discussion/presentation / exhibition / film / food / (free) shop/market / meeting / music/concert / theater

opening times: 

(December 2024)
Monday: 19:00, Volkseten Vegazulu
Tuesday: 19:00-20:30, Kraakspreekuur Oost
Wednesday: 19:00-21:00 Dutch Language Classes*
Thursday: 19:00, Volkseten Vegazulu*
Friday: 20:00 Aman molli
Saturday: 14-18, Give Away Shop
Sunday: 18-20, Radical Sunday School*
Sunday: 20:30, Movie night*
(*) not weekly
Every 2nd Saturday of the month, 19:00-20:30, Joe’s Garage open assembly
Every 2nd Sunday of the month, 14:00-18:00, All Crafts Are Beautiful