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The Red is what we need. The film subsidies behind the Iron Curtain produced some of the most fascinating and some of the most unusual films ever made. The Polish system in particular was quite interesting. There are better articles on the internet to read about it, but if I recall correctly they created film units consisting of directors, cinematographers, etc. that were essentially entirely self-directed. Their sole responsibility was to make films, not make a specific type of film. This birthed Kieslowski, Zulawski, etc. The Czech system produced an insane amount of great films in a short period, and the Soviet system gave insane budgets to War and Peace as well as to Solaris, and gave money to German and Sokurov and others to make totally uncommercial films. From a capitalist perspective, the Brits birthed both Jarman and Greenaway through public endowments. Red is the color of great, daring art!
Sure, the Soviets banned a lot of great art, but Ruffalo was in Margaret so...