I recorded The Bicycle Thief last night. It's an Italian neo-realist film that will never be out of date. On Friday I will be watching Lonely Are The Brave. This latter film examines the individual versus society from a left wing view. Both of these films are hopelessly technologically backwards in comparison to the film being discussed in this thread.However, feeding my desire to be entertained is not the only factor for me in choosing a film to watch. Have a good one.
Love that movie!!
Also Man Without A Pastby the always amazing Aki Kaurismäki
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0311519/
and the must see banned in US of A (yes, until this day) Peter Watkins Punishment Park:
His reputation as a political provocateur was amplified by Punishment Park, a story of violent political conflict in the United States that coincided with the Kent State Massacre. Opposition to war is a common theme of his work, but the films' political messages are often ambiguous, usually allowing the main characters to present violently opposing viewpoints which in many cases are improvised by the cast: in Punishment Park, the soldiers and dissidents were played by nonprofessional actors whose political opinions matched those of their characters so well that the director said he feared actual violence would break out on set. He took a similar approach in his Paris Commune reenactment La Commune, using newspaper advertisements to recruit conservative actors who would have a genuine antipathy to the Commune rebels. Watkins is also known for political statements about the film and television media, writing extensively about flaws in television news and the dominance of the Hollywood-derived narrative style that he refers to as "the monoform".
After the banning of The War Game and the poor reception of his first non-television feature, Privilege, Watkins left England and has made all of his subsequent films abroad: The Gladiators in Sweden, Punishment Park in the United States, Edvard Munch in Norway, Resan (a 14-hour film cycle about the threat of nuclear war) in ten different countries, and La Commune in France. Freethinker: The Life and Work of Peter Watkins, is a forthcoming biography by Patrick Murphy, a Senior Lecturer in Film and Television at York St John University and Dr John Cook. It is being compiled with Watkins' active help and participation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Watkins
Fidel, Last Tango was banned because of the sex. Along the same lines as the I Am Curious movies.