censorship forces TV prod's to turn to film

[jc]

Censorship of the airwaves in Berlusconi's Italy led TV producers to turn to film to put their point across. John Hooper meets those who dared to revolt<br><br>Among those interviewed for Sabina Guzzanti's "satirical documentary" Viva Zapatero! is Furio Colombo, a former editor of the Italian leftwing daily L'Unita. He recalls how his family kept bound editions of the newspaper from previous years. As a boy, he says, he used to leaf through the volumes from the years that saw the rise of fascism. "I remember I used to wonder why people didn't see," he tells Guzzanti, "because at first there were so many who later became anti-fascists, and even joined the Resistance, who took part or said weak-kneed things like 'Despite everything, Italy's still a democracy.'"<br><br>…<br><br><!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://film.guardian.co.uk/features/featurepages/0,,1819856,00.html">film.guardian.co.uk/features/featurepages/0,,1819856,00.html</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--> <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=jc@rigorousintuition>jc</A> at: 7/14/06 9:03 am<br></i>

[Gouda]

Bumping with a hearty endorsement for Sabina Guzzanti (she's got more <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>there</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> there than Jon Stewart by far.) Her documentary <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>Viva Zapatero!</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> is excellent, a mindbogling story (even for hardened cynics like us) of Berlusconi's fascism in action, and her brilliant resistance. <p></p><i></i>