Baader Meinhof Complex

Movie Review: Carlos -- Glamorizing Terrorism

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

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Marshall Fine

There's been a lot of excitement about Olivier Assayas' Carlos, and it's not hard to see why. But here's my objection: In presenting a terrorist as an action hero, it glorifies terrorism as a legitimate path of political action.

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Time to Exhume Marx

Sunil Adam | Posted 05.25.2011

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Sunil Adam

Watching the film, I felt strangely nostalgic about what was then referred to as the "Age of Terrorism" -- the period between the 1967 Arab-Israeli War and the late 1980s.

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Baader-Meinhof Complex, a New Film Based on True Events

Regina Weinreich | Posted 05.25.2011

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Regina Weinreich

Everyone needs to see this movie to remember a time when feelings were more aroused by ideologies than buried by the long sleep of consumer culture.

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