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.
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.
NOMINATED
FILMS FOR 1998
DEMOCRACY:
Enemy of the State, Four
Days in September, Primary Colors,
The Siege, Wag
the Dog
EXPOSÉ:
Bulworth, A
Civil Action, Four Days in September,
Regeneration
HUMAN RIGHTS:
A Civil Action, Enemy
of the State, The Siege, Wilde
PEACE: The
Boxer, Regeneration, Saving
Private Ryan, Savior
