Americans are notoriously dense when it comes to history. But if all history lessons were as compelling as English writer/director Peter Watkins’ docudrama about the Paris Commune, then maybe that ...

As a combination history lesson/film manifesto/contemporary media critique, it’s safe to say there’s nothing quite like La Commune (Paris, 1871). The most recent film from acclaimed British ...

So far as mental fireworks go, the Fourth of July weekend is unlikely to offer anything more spectacular than Peter Watkins’s masterpiece La Commune (Paris, 1871). Dynamic historical reconstruction in ...

Some filmmakers say this is my work and I want it to stay that way. That is their right, and we respect that right. Those are the films we don’t buy, and those are the films we don’t transmit. —TV ...

Peter Watkins’s huge (and we mean huge) pseudo-documentary experiment places vérité newsreel crews in the midst of the Paris commune uprisings of 1871. As if that weren’t incongruous enough, Watkins ...