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I believe that this may be of interest for those on the emailing list:
POLITICAL FILM SOCIETY NEWSLETTER #36
P.O. BOX 461267
HOLLYWOOD, CA 90046
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www.geocities.com/~polfilms/
March 15, 1999

POLITICAL FILM SOCIETY MEMBERS SELECT THE BEST FILMS OF 1998
Members of the Political Film Society selected the following as the best films
of 1998 in raising political consciousness:
PEACE
       The Boxer
       Regeneration
       Saving Private Ryan
X       Savior
DEMOCRACY
       Enemy of the State
X       Four Days in September
       Primary Colors
       The Siege
       Wag the Dog
HUMAN RIGHTS
X       A Civil Action
       Enemy of the State
       The Siege
       Wilde
EXPOSÉ
       Bulworth
       A Civil Action
       Four Days in September
       Regeneration
X       none of the above
Award certificates will be presented to Predrag Antonijevic for Savior, Bruno
Barretto for Four Days in September, and Steven Zaillian for A Civil Action.
For reviews of these films, see the Political Film Society’s website (address
above).

POLITICAL FILM SOCIETY BOARD MET ON MARCH 13
The Board of Directors of the Political Film Society held their second meeting
of 1999 on March 13. The Board counted the ballots for the best films of 1998
and adopted amendments to the Rules of Procedure, as noted on the website.

FILMS TO SEE
Members of the Political Film Society are urged to see several films now at
your cinema. Feminist themes prevail in Elizabeth: The Virgin Queen and The
Rage: Carrie 2, in both of which women triumph over irresponsible macho men.
Gay and hetero problems, often intertwined, are laid bare in Gods and Monsters
(about Frankenstein director James Whale), The School of Flesh (based on a
novel by Yukio Mishima), and Hurlyburly (fictional but pathetic Hollywood). My
Name is Joe depicts the travails of working class Glasgow as victim to
economic Thatcherism. None of these films has been nominated for a Political
Film Society award for 1999. Elizabeth: The Virgin Queen, Gods and Monsters,
and Hurlyburly are ineligible, since they were released last year.

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