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EYE Film Museum is reviving the revolutionary year 1968. But didn't the wave of innovation start much earlier?

1968 was not just the year of flying Paris paving stones. It was also the year of violent race riots in America, of Russian tanks in Prague, of activist filmmakers and Czech surrealism. Those poignant images, plus the unsurpassed rock of the time performed by The Silverfaces, came by on the promising opening night of 1968: You Say You Want a Revolution. A beautiful and large-scale programme of films and talk shows that EYE Film Museum used for a month to...

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Leo Bankersen

Leo Bankersen has been writing about film since Chinatown and Night of the Living Dead. Reviewed as a freelance film journalist for the GPD for a long time. Is now, among other things, one of the regular contributors to De Filmkrant. Likes to break a lance for children's films, documentaries and films from non-Western countries. Other specialities: digital issues and film education.View Author posts

1968 was not just the year of flying Paris paving stones. It was also the year of violent race riots in America, of Russian tanks in Prague, of activist filmmakers and Czech surrealism. Those poignant images, plus the unsurpassed rock of the time performed by The Silverfaces, came by on the promising opening night of 1968: You Say You Want a Revolution. A beautiful and large-scale programme of films and talk shows that EYE Film Museum used for a month to...

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