Sunday 19th August
The Autonomous Centre of Edinburgh
2pm – 7pm
On Sunday 19th August at the Autonomous Centre of Edinburgh, Edinburgh Anarchist Federation will be hosting a day of Hollywood films with communist themes. Come along and invite your friends.
SCHEDULE
2pm – Doors open
2.30pm – In Time (2011)
“A blistering attack on an unjust system that keeps the have-nots living moment to moment and the have-yachts living high on the pork”
- Empire Magazine
“Yet more commie bullshit from Holywood”
- someone on the internet
In the future, everyone stops aging at 25 – but has to work to earn extra time for the rest of their lives. Run out of time, and you’re left to drop dead where you stand.
When blue-collar worker Will (Justin Timberlake) is given a hundred years by a suicidal man he saves, he sets out to shake up the system.
Sci-Fi meets Bonnie and Clyde, after they read The Communist Manifesto.
4.30pm – Interval
5pm – Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011)
“Rise of the Planet of the Apes shows a brutalised group with no stake in society, fighting their oppressors in the only way such groups can – smashing things up”
- Infantile Disorder
“It’s only a matter of time before this kind of ideology starts to have serious consequences in the real world”
- Libertas Film Magazine
The victim of scientific experiment and incarceration, Caesar, a chimpanzee, shows how collective action can bring about revolution and freedom, by fighting against capital, and the cops.