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Title: Now! (1965)
Added: Jul 7, 2006
Author: Tasutpen
Duration: 5:8
Description:
Using morgue photos, newsreel footage, and an amazing (if slightly over-arranged) recording by Lena Horne, Cuban filmmaker Santiago Alvarez fired off 'Now!', one of the most powerful bursts of propaganda rendered in the 1960s. Not intended as a work of great subtlety, Alvarez wields other people's images with perhaps more artistry than those who created them, and builds a remarkable piece of rhetorical cinema in the process. It's target -- the then-current racial conflagration in the United States -- is an easy one. But it is perhaps this very fact that most fuels the scorn and rage in the marrow of this film. If there was any room for nuance, he might have gone a little easier.'Now!' is strident, yes; but breathtaking.Tom Sutpen
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Youtube Comments: 42
JhonRojas17 Says:
Jul 6, 2007 - Muy bueno...... pero alguien de casualidad sabe quien canta la segunda cancion???? gracias
Tasutpen Says:
Jul 6, 2007 - ¿Quién canta la segunda canción? Hay solamente una canción en esta película y es cantada por Lena Horne
Tasutpen Says:
Jul 6, 2007 - Los autores de las líricas son Betty Comden y verde de Adolph Green
EkBalam707 Says:
Jul 8, 2007 - Santiago: Este es otro excelente video. Muy bueno y seguramente tu como Cubano has de conocer que los negros en Cuba; Afro-Cuba- experimentaron de alguna forma,la misma represion y opresion que los negros en EE.UU. no es tan solo importante saber y conocerlo, sino, evitar que cualquier otro grupo etnico, social o religiosos experimente segregacion, marginacion, o que carezca de drecehos basicos.Buen video bro!
xxyya Says:
Jul 30, 2007 - one of the first music videos and one of the few that was not created to promote a product.
yetbog Says:
Aug 28, 2007 - Hey Tasutpen!Excelente aporte, para esto es youtube!Muchisimas gracias por subir este tipo de material!
vanopnt Says:
Sep 12, 2007 - very nice
davidcovo Says:
Nov 7, 2007 - Santiago Alvarez is one of the greatest filmakers of all times. Pioneer in documentary and videoclip genre.
cynthia5656 Says:
Nov 21, 2007 - Excelente
pig3292 Says:
Dec 1, 2007 - this is in my "defining moments in movie history" book =D thanks for posting it!
destroyallbloggers Says:
Jan 28, 2008 - Viva Fidel Viva Cuba
Tasutpen Says:
Feb 4, 2008 - Not knowing what your grandmother predicted, I can't say if it was fulfilled or not, but the song Alvarez chose to accompany these images was recorded two years earlier and otherwise has no connection to this film. My guess is the lyrics . . . written by Betty Comden and Adolph Green; both Jewish, neither Communist (in case that matters) . . . represented the primary intent of the piece; the melody was incidental.By the way, Santiago Alvarez was a Socialist, not a Communist.
Tasutpen Says:
Feb 4, 2008 - I'm pretty sure she'd be wrong on that. I mean, it's hard to impute anti-semitism to a song when the man who wrote the melody for the introductory bit (Jule Styne) and both lyricists were Jewish. If anything having those lyrics set to 'Hava Nagilah' had more to do with Black/Jewish solidarity in the Civil Rights movement at the time the song was recorded (1963). Alvarez no doubt used it because . . . there just weren't a whole lot of other songs like it he could use.
Punkanrol Says:
Dec 3, 2008 - Hola! muy buen videoclip... pionero!Alguien sabe donde puedo conseguir la canción?x ahi ley que la canta Lena Horne.. pero no encuentro la cancion.. si alguien la tiene me la pasa porfa? o diganme donde puedo conseguirla... Gracias
gaaraandme90 Says:
Jan 28, 2009 - Hi! Do you know what kind of language he used in this? Is it associative or which one? I mean cinematography language. It's not abstractionism, but I can't decide which one it is.Thanks!
dybbuk4640 Says:
May 5, 2009 - the music doesn't fit and undermines the import of the images ...very very bad job
chrisrox21 Says:
Jul 12, 2009 - "She always maintained that Jews and Communism/Socialism were inextricably tied."Hitler also believed this.
ZzTheTruthzZ Says:
Sep 2, 2009 - different
yosoyelvecino Says:
Feb 20, 2010 - 3:55 fiel muestra de la hipocresía norteamericana.
less01 Says:
Dec 28, 2010 - la diferencia es que en EUA es posibel mostrar este y cualquier documental sea progaandistico o no y es permitido la protesta de todo tipo me gustaria saber si otros regimenes resistirian un filme asi de agrio!..???
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carlah2020 Says:
Oct 2, 2011 - Excelent! By cinema critics is the foyndation for the modern videoclip, even it is a documental exposing the fight for civil rights for black people in the USA
hebneh Says:
Feb 18, 2012 - This short film gives a hint of some of the complicated, violent, significant changes which kept coming at us in the 1960s.
JhonRojas17 Says:
Jul 6, 2007 - Muy bueno...pero alguien sabe el nombre del autor de la cancion