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Original title: Good Times, Wonderful Times
Year: 1966
Running time: 70 min.
Country: United States
Director: Lionel Rogosin
Screenwriter: Tadeusz Makarczynski, Lionel Rogosin
Cast: Documentary, Self: Molly Parkin
Genre: Documentary. Drama. War
Synopsis: Lionel Rogosin’s Good Times, Wonderful Times (1965) is a biting critique of political complacency amidst nuclear armament and America’s escalating involvement in Vietnam. This message comes by way of sardonic visual and aural contrast where the idle chatter and swinging music of a London cocktail party is juxtaposed with bleak archival footage of nuclear devastation, fascism, concentration camps, and protest. This didactic mode of assemblage indicts the film’s frivolous partygoers for their tacit support of continued warfare and oppression. The urgency of its message prompted one critic to write: “[Rogosin] has managed brilliantly to set the present world—and the urgent questions of personal responsibility—teetering on the stem of a Martini.”

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Good Times, Wonderful Times

1966

Lionel Rogosin