New Radio @TheWarNerd on Italy's "Years Of Lead": sorting out true conspiracies—1964 rightist coup plot, 1970 Prince Borghese fascist fake-coup plot, neofascist "strategy of tension" terror bombings—from false conspiracies ain't easy.https://twitter.com/TheWarNerd/status/1002307416065748998 …
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Replying to @MarkAmesExiled @TheWarNerd
Looking forward to this. Isn’t it the case that rightwing terrorists killed more people than leftwing terrorists? Even though it seems to me the latter are the only ones that have been remembered in film, fiction etc.
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A footnote was that the era spawned some tremendously violent (sometimes to amusing effect) Italian film output as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poliziotteschi …pic.twitter.com/ZWGRUHbKsC
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And Chase, as you mentioned, the "bad guys" were usually criminals, leftists, or even just "hippies".
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But Elio Petri’s Investigation of a Citizen above Suspicion makes up for all the garbage...
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I haven't seen that one, looks great. I'll have to track it down! Anthology Film Archives did a whole week long series of these one year - it was something. Thanks!
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It’s got one of the best Morricone soundtracks too...
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Oh wow.
Criterion collection here I come.0 replies 0 retweets 1 likeThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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