By Jason Apuzzo. Opening this Friday in New York (and expanding across North America in coming weeks) is a superb new film called Disco & Atomic War – a film that both my Libertas colleague Joe Bendel and I agree is one of the most extraordinary documentaries of the year.
Disco & Atomic War deals with how Western popular entertainment ‘bootlegged’ into the Eastern Bloc or played on pirate TV stations – entertainments like Star Wars and Knight Rider and Dallas and the Emmanuelle films – played an enormous role in undermining the Soviet system. [You can read my LA Film Festival review of the film here.]
We’ve previously streamed Disco in its entirety here at Libertas, and overall I can’t recommend this film enough – among other reasons due to its obvious applicability to the current war on terror that we’re fighting, and how that might be won. The film also happens to be very drily amusing – almost a comedy in its own right.
[Here, incidentally, is a new interview with the film’s director, Jaak Kilmi.]
I’ve embedded a witty and unusual trailer from the film above. Enjoy!
Posted on Novermber 12th, 2010 at 10:33am.
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