{"id":3865,"date":"2019-07-15T06:20:28","date_gmt":"2019-07-15T05:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/?page_id=3865"},"modified":"2019-07-15T06:20:28","modified_gmt":"2019-07-15T05:20:28","slug":"winstanley","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/films\/winstanley\/","title":{"rendered":"Winstanley"},"content":{"rendered":"
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No events to show<\/em>Director: Kevin Brownlow\/Andrew Mollo, UK 1975, 95 mins, 12A<\/p>\n
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“Try comparing Winstanley<\/i> with other [commercial] period films about the class struggle, and it is hard not to see how much more real and meaningful this film is.” Dennis Schwartz<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Captivating and cinematically beautiful, Winstanley<\/i> chronicles the idealistic endeavours of Gerrard Winstanley (who advocated a form of Christian Communism) and his followers \u2013 the \u2018True Levellers\u2019 or \u2018Diggers\u2019 <\/span>\u2013 <\/span>from 1649 to 1651 to establish a commune on common land in Surrey. With its timeless themes of the stricken many versus \u201cthe covetous few\u201d, it is as relevant now as ever.<\/span><\/p>\n

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“It looks so real it’s like a documentary shot in the 1640s.”IMDB<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Further reading<\/h4>\n
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    1. Dennis Schwartz Review<\/a><\/li>\n
    2. The Guardian<\/a><\/li>\n
    3. Criterion Forum<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Trailer<\/h4>\n