Episode 449: Z (1969)

The Projection Booth Podcast

The Projection Booth

Film Reviews, Film Interviews, Film History, Tv & Film

4.8 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2020

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Based on a book by Vasilis Vasilikos, Costa-Gavras’s Z (1969) stars Yves Montand as a political activist who is killed after a rally. The film also stars Jean-Louis Trintignant as the investigator of the incident who manages to uncover a vast conspiracy.

Keith Gordon and Eric Cohen join Mike to discuss this political thriller which is a thinly veiled re-telling of the events in Greece of 1963 and the assassination of Grigoris Lambrakis.
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0:00.0	You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast.
0:04.5	Christopher Media. Let's make some noise.
0:07.0	What number are we thinking of?
0:09.9	69, dudes!
0:14.0	Huh.
0:20.7	It's a 1969 o K
0:23.6	All across the USA
0:27.6	It's another year for me and you
0:32.6	Another year with nothing to do It's another year for me and you
0:41.3	Another year with nothing to do
0:44.3	Film is not an immediate art form
0:51.3	Production can take weeks or months or more to complete. The cinema of
0:56.0	1969 reflects the turmoil of 1968. The political upheaval in protest that went on around the globe.
1:04.0	From the Tet Offensive in January of 1968, the General Strikes of France and May 68,
1:10.0	the riots that ravaged America from Washington, D.C., to Chicago, to Kansas City throughout the spring and into summer.
1:18.3	Political crises in Poland, Pakistan, West Germany, Scandinavia, Czechoslovakia, Spain, Italy, France, Brazil, and the UK, and Yugoslavia.
1:31.5	If 1968 is a year that shook the world, then the fallout of that year should be writ large
1:37.2	on the silver screen in 1969.
1:41.0	Throughout the year, we'll be looking at several films from 1969 and how politics, economics, religious, societal, and intellectual shifts in 1968 were reflected in the cinema of 1969.
1:55.0	Join us, won't you? And in here, a
2:03.6	VIII
2:05.6	They've got to try to make
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