White-knuckle thriller, history lesson, polemical mass-media critique, genre-bending docudrama: British provocateur Peter Watkins' "La Commune (Paris 1871)," the 12th film in a thematically consistent ...

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 ...

The Universal Clock: The Resistance of Peter Watkins An overly righteous companion piece to Peter Watkins' monumental "La Commune (Paris 1871)," "The Universal Clock" spends as much time criticizing ...

Watkins on the set of his last film, La Commune (1871) Icarus Films Who would you choose as Britain’s most influential living film director? Ken Loach? Mike Leigh? Even Sam Mendes, director of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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The first part of Peter Watkins’ six-hour docudrama focuses on the euphoric rise of the Paris Commune, and part two tells the story of its quick decline. The commune was a sort of aftershock of the ...