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Published: 11 October 2007

Pick of the Indies

JOURNALIST John Pilger is presenting his film The War On Democracy at the Prince Charles cinema in Leicester Place next month.
The film focuses on the problems facing countries in South America in confronting United States foreign policies that destabilise them – and how the media report this external interference.
It is Pilger’s first film for the cinema, and follows the 55 TV documentaries he has made.
He said: “Most of my films have told stories of people’s struggles against rapacious power and of attempts to subvert and control our historical memory.
“It is this control, this organised forgetting, that has always intrigued me, both as a film-maker
and a journalist.
“Described by Harold Pinter as a great silence unbroken by the incessant din of the media age, it assures the powerful in the West that the struggle of whole societies against their crimes is merely superficially recorded, let alone documented, let alone acknowledged... It never happened. Even while it was happening it never happened. It didn’t matter. It was of no interest.”
Meanwhile, the Hampstead Everyman’s Spanish season continues this Saturday with a screening of Pedro Almovodar’s superb 1997 film Live Flesh, the story of a policeman paralysed by a stray bullet.
The cinema is laying on free Spanish tortilla for viewers and the screening starts at 3pm.

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