Category Archives: Cuban Revolution

White House Plumbers

Posted on June 18, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Security officer Frank Wills’ log of the Watergate Office Building. June 17, 1972. “The White House Plumbers, sometimes simply called the Plumbers, the Room 16 Project, or more officially, the White House Special Investigations Unit, was a covert White House … Continue reading →

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Humberto Solás – Lucía (1968)

Posted on June 5, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Lucía: In Progress “What can it mean for cinema to be revolutionary? Answering a version of this question in a 1977 interview, the Cuban filmmaker Humberto Solás stressed the importance of real-world context. In a capitalist environment, a revolutionary film … Continue reading →

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Langston Hughes

Posted on May 19, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“James Mercer Langston Hughes (February 1, 1901– May 22, 1967) was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri. One of the earliest innovators of the literary art form called jazz poetry, Hughes is best known … Continue reading →

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Salut les Cubains – Agnès Varda (1964)

Posted on April 16, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Agnès Varda’s pictures of Cuba had been sitting untouched in boxes since the mid-1960s. The images – of female bodies in form-fitting silhouettes, and men harvesting in cane fields – ‘were never meant to be shown,’ says the grande dame … Continue reading →

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Thinking About the Sixties by Richard Goldstein

Posted on March 22, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“The ’60s was was a decade without nostalgia, and thus a decade without irony. It’s only natural, then, that the current wave of nostalgia for the ’60s is suffused with irony — for we are looking back to a time … Continue reading →

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‘JFK’: Oliver Stone’s Emotionally Accurate and Masterfully Crafted Trip Down the Rabbit Hole

Posted on March 11, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“… There is literally zero doubt about it—director Oliver Stone has always been drawn to making movies about significant men who were creators, conquerors or critics, i.e. free thinkers, whether it be king Alexander the Great, president Richard Nixon, fictional … Continue reading →

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Cuban Cinema of the Sixties: From Myth to Reality

Posted on February 19, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Death of a Bureaucrat, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea (1966) “As a complement to the exhibition Adiós Utopia: Dreams and Deceptions in Cuban Art Since 1950, the Walker Moving Image department has curated Cinema Revolution: Cuba, a series of four classic Cuban films by … Continue reading →

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Topaz – Alfred Hitchcock (1969)

Posted on January 13, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“It’s perfectly apparent from its opening sequence that no one except Alfred Hitchcock, the wise, round, supremely confident storyteller, is in charge of ‘Topaz,’ the film that opened yesterday at the Cinerama Theater. ‘Topaz,’ the code name for a Russian … Continue reading →

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What Biden is keeping secret in the JFK files

Posted on October 26, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Part of a file from the CIA released by the National Archives in 2017, dated Oct. 10, 1963, details “a reliable and sensitive source in Mexico” report of Lee Harvey Oswald’s contact with the Soviet Union embassy in Mexico City. … Continue reading →

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The US Blockade on Cuba Must End

Posted on July 18, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Richard Nixon, then Dwight D. Eisenhower’s vice president, met with Cuba’s Fidel Castro on April 19, 1959, in Washington, DC. “… The US blockade on Cuba has been a key part of Washington’s long-standing war on the country, launched shortly … Continue reading →

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