Quick Recommendations
A quick note to applaud Will Smith’s “Amend: The Fight for America” now on Netflix. A very well done six …
Category Archives: Movies
Journey’s End – WWI Drama, 2017 Film
R. C. Sherriff, writer of such strange film scripts as The Invisible Man (1933,) based on H.G. Wells 1897 …
Keeper of the Flame – A 1943 Movie for Today
In 1943 the United States was fully engaged in desperate wars in Europe and the vast Pacific. Film studios …
The War: A Memoir – Marguerite Duras
Marguerite Donnadieu was seventeen years old when she moved to France from a small village near Saigon, Vietnam, where …
Soldiers Alive – A Novel of the Japanese in China, 1937
For century upon century, from the time of the stories of Gilgamesh (18th BCE), stories of war have been told …
Resistance and Subversion in Literature and Movies
We like our stories of resistance to great evil to include bold cunning, great daring and a good complement …
War / Shame: Ingmar Bergman
Ingmar Bergman‘s films are not generally thought of among war films: couples down and apart, landscapes severe and forbidding, …
The Damned Days of August: 6th and 9th
Today is August 6, 73 years after the first use of a nuclear explosion in a war in human …
All The Kings Men: Old Templates for New Demagogues
After recent study and due consideration I can say with certainty that to call President Trump the reincarnation of …
J.D.Salinger – War Troubled
Combing through the archives for my proposed magnum hopus, “What We Talk About When We Talk About War,” I came …
Black Rain, Two Movies — Hiroshima After the Bomb
The enormous, instantaneous destructive power of atomic weapons is the first, and sometimes the only, image that comes to mind …
The Crazy Iris — Japanese Writers and the Atom Bomb
Not much is more startling to read than a paragraph beginning “At about noon on the day Hiroshima was bombed …