Fugitive Days

Inspired by P.T. Anderson’s ardently anti-authoritarian blockbuster One Battle After Another, the most unabashedly militant feature released by an American studio in a month of Sundays, a program of films that consider, from a wide array of perspectives, armed underground resistance, its human toll, and the aftereffects of the fight on those who’ve retired from the field, as well as their loved ones. In-fighting Irish Republicans (John Ford’s The Informer), Baader-Meinhof–inspired blunderers (R.W. Fassbinder’s The Third Generation), fellow travellers with the Algerian Front de Libération Nationale and their pied noir opposite numbers (Philippe Garrel’s Liberté, la nuit), Weathermen-esque fugitives from justice adrift in the Reagan ’80s (Sidney Lumet’s Running on Empty)… you’ll find them all here, and plenty of other insurgents, agitators, and refugees from the front besides.