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Movie Review | Burn! (Pontecorvo, 1969)

Gillo Pontecorvo’s follow-up to The Battle of Algiers follows an agent of the British government, played by Marlon Brando, who attempts to capitalize on a revolt in a Portuguese sugar plantation colony. Brando’s character is named after William Walker, who led a private army to conquer Nicaragua in the mid-nineteenth century and was also the basis for the Alex Cox’s unconventional biopic Walker (which transplanted helicopters and Time magazine into the 1800s). Both films take liberties with the historical record in different ways (Cox in obvious ways, while Pontecorvo merges different events so as to be inspired by them rather than serving as a retelling), but even beyond aesthetics they demonstrate differences in approaching this material. Cox indicts colonialism (and by extension American intervention in Latin America) through piss take, while Pontecorvo, as in Algiers, is interested more so in the actual mechanics of revolution and counterinsurgency. Once again he casts the rebellion with non-actors, but perhaps because his focus is more on the oppressors this time around, and perhaps because Evaristo Marquez, who plays the leader of the rebels, is not the strongest presence (understandable, as he was a non-actor in his first movie, while the cast of Algiers were at least playing themselves), the proceedings don’t feel conveyed with the same urgency. Still, the Ennio Morricone score adds some sweep, and Marlon Brando brings the movie a few more levels higher with his performance, not just being compelling and unpredictable in his usual ways, but embodying the Pontecorvo’s ideas about colonialism and revolution better than the movie around him.

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Norman Hill

Norman Hill (born April 22, 1933 in Summit, New Jersey) is an influential African-American administrator, activist and labor leader. He attended Haverford College in Pennsylvania and received a bachelor's degree in 1956 in the field of sociology. He was one of the first African-Americans to graduate from Haverford. After college, Hill served in the military. After returning from military service, he moved to Chicago to join in the Civil Rights Movement and to pursue a master's degree in the University of Chicago School of Social Welfare, which he dropped in favor of more direct social action. Hill was appointed Chicago Coordinator and held various positions in projects around Chicago, including Youth March for Integrated Schools, Secretary of Chicago Area Negro American Labor Council, and Staff Chairman of the Chicago March Conventions.

Another endeavor Hill joined was the Congress of Racial Equality. In this organization, Hill was first the East Coast Field Secretary and then moved his way up to the position of National Program Director. As National Program Director, Hill coordinated the route 40 desegregation of restaurants, the Waldorf campaign, and illustrated the civil rights demonstration that took place at the 1964 Republican National Convention.

From 1964 to 1967, Norman Hill served as the Legislative Representative and Civil Rights Liaison of the Industrial Union department of the AFL-CIO. He was involved in the issue of raising minimum wage and the labor delegation on the Selma to Montgomery marches against racial discrimination in politics and voting in the southern United States.

In 1967, Hill became active in the A. Philip Randolph Institute. He began as Associate Director, but later became Executive Director, and finally President. As Associate Director, Hill coordinated and organized the Memphis March in 1968, after Martin Luther King’s assassination. In his career at the A. Philip Randolph Institute, Hill created over two hundred local chapters of this organization across the United States.

In 1969, Norman Hill also had a lead role in the controversial movie Burn!, starring Marlon Brando and Evaristo Marquez and directed by Gillo Pontecorvo, about the impact and morality of an English mercenary on the slave revolt of an "imaginary" Caribbean island of Queimada.

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VHS #441

John Coltrane

21:47 Ovation w/o commercials

awful camerawork Blowing For His Soul

an obsessive person, Amiri Baraka, Birmingham, AL bombing inspired Alabama (https://youtu.be/saN1BwlxJxA) very short excerpt, Joshua Redman, My Favorite Things (https://youtu.be/zH3JpqhpkXg) This clip - very short excerpt, soprano sax, shaved reed and mouthpiece, Lee Konitz talks about drug use, heroin, turned vegetarian, Vigil, live he played for 2 hours, Ed Jones, Village Vanguard, waitress held ears, couldn’t stand it, Michael Cuscuna, free jazz (don’t want to get paid joke), Elvin Jones, Billy Cobham, everything flows around the high-hat, Naima (https://youtu.be/Kd9AYDRBht4) This clip (short excerpt). *** Leyandes, The Legends of Cuban Music1 hr, no commercials subtitles for Spanish and English segments2006 …Paquito D’Rivera, son, 1930s,  musicians started to travel to other countries, Sibony - Rita Montaner, Ernesto Lecuona, (WNYE will go digital soon banner in 2009), Chick Webb, Machito, Johnny Pacheco, Marlon Brando jammed with him, Perez Prado, Cougat, Cachao, we created the mambo, Arturo Sandoval, American artists played Cuba in the '50s, nightclubs, New York sound, the revolution, Miami sound, Emilio Estafan, music survives Fidel, Las Hermanas Marquez, Celia Cruz. *** State of the Arts1/2 hr, P 28:48 Poetry show Maya Angelou, Alan Ginsburg, various other poets, Dodge Poetry Festival, Paul Muldoon and his band, Poetry Out Loud, John Barr, student poetry, classics, Kaylee Bruckler - Forgetfulness - Billy Collins, Naja Selby - Chicago - Carl Sandberg, Sandy Lamplugh - A Song of Life - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Dodge Poetry Festival 2006: Ekiwah Adler-Belendez, Coleman Barks talks about him, Rumi East & West, Racket: Paul Muldoon’s band, Nigel Smith (loves NJ), Lee Matthew - specializes in Gregorian chants, I’ll Be Your Sideman, lyrics where the pressure per square inch is a little bit higher, a live gig at the Richardson Theater at Princeton.

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212: Silver Age Superman

Superman: The Movie.

The late 70s left an indelible mark on cinema, Jaws, 2001 and Star Wars shattered the limitations of what we thought of as possible on the big screen but they wouldn't be the last as Richard Donner and his take on the original superhero would make you believe a man could fly.

In this episode of The 602 Club host Matthew Rushing is joined by Bruce Gibson and John Mills to talk about Superman: The Movie as it turns 40. We discuss our first flights, putting the movie together, Krypton, Brando, Smallville, the lesson, the end, the cast, timeline, John Williams and our ratings.

Chapters First Flight (00:05:05) Putting the Movie Together (00:10:54) Kryptin (00:22:31) Marlon Brando (00:30:30) Smallville (00:35:05) The Lesson (00:39:32) Explaining the End (00:46:18) Traveling North (00:50:31) Reeve (00:56:44) Margot Kidder (01:02:26) Lex and His Plan (01:09:35) The Timeline (01:18:01) John Williams (01:20:41) Ratings (01:29:06)

Host Matthew Rushing

Guests Bruce Gibson John Mills

Production Matthew Rushing (Editor and Producer) C Bryan Jones (Executive Producer) Ken Tripp (Executive Producer) Matthew Rushing (Executive Producer) Richard Marquez (Production Manager) Brandon-Shea Mutala (Patreon Manager) Ken Tripp (Associate Producer) Davis Grayson (Associate Producer) Daniel Noa (Associate Producer) Ryan Maillet (Associate Producer)

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