All In One Boat

~ And Heading Through the Straits of Messina

All In One Boat

Category Archives: Movies

Quick Recommendations

12/16/2021

A quick note to applaud Will Smith’s “Amend: The Fight for America” now on Netflix.  A very well done six …

Continue reading »

Share this:

  • Email
  • Facebook
  • Print
  • Twitter
  • More
  • Pinterest
  • WhatsApp

Like this:

Like Loading...

Journey’s End – WWI Drama, 2017 Film

7/11/2019

  R. C. Sherriff, writer of such strange film scripts as The Invisible Man (1933,) based on H.G. Wells 1897 …

Continue reading »

Share this:

  • Email
  • Facebook
  • Print
  • Twitter
  • More
  • Pinterest
  • WhatsApp

Like this:

Like Loading...

Keeper of the Flame – A 1943 Movie for Today

6/27/2019

  In 1943 the United States was fully engaged in desperate wars in Europe and the vast Pacific. Film studios …

Continue reading »

Share this:

  • Email
  • Facebook
  • Print
  • Twitter
  • More
  • Pinterest
  • WhatsApp

Like this:

Like Loading...

The War: A Memoir – Marguerite Duras

5/1/2019

  Marguerite Donnadieu was seventeen years old when she moved to France from a small village near Saigon, Vietnam, where …

Continue reading »

Share this:

  • Email
  • Facebook
  • Print
  • Twitter
  • More
  • Pinterest
  • WhatsApp

Like this:

Like Loading...

Soldiers Alive – A Novel of the Japanese in China, 1937

1/11/2019

For century upon century, from the time of the stories of Gilgamesh (18th BCE), stories of war have been told …

Continue reading »

Share this:

  • Email
  • Facebook
  • Print
  • Twitter
  • More
  • Pinterest
  • WhatsApp

Like this:

Like Loading...

Resistance and Subversion in Literature and Movies

11/20/2018

  We like our stories of resistance to great evil to include bold cunning, great daring and a good complement …

Continue reading »

Share this:

  • Email
  • Facebook
  • Print
  • Twitter
  • More
  • Pinterest
  • WhatsApp

Like this:

Like Loading...

War / Shame: Ingmar Bergman

9/28/2018

  Ingmar Bergman‘s films are not generally thought of among war films: couples down and apart, landscapes severe and forbidding, …

Continue reading »

Share this:

  • Email
  • Facebook
  • Print
  • Twitter
  • More
  • Pinterest
  • WhatsApp

Like this:

Like Loading...

The Damned Days of August: 6th and 9th

8/6/2018

  Today is August 6, 73 years after the first use of a nuclear explosion in a war in human …

Continue reading »

Share this:

  • Email
  • Facebook
  • Print
  • Twitter
  • More
  • Pinterest
  • WhatsApp

Like this:

Like Loading...

All The Kings Men: Old Templates for New Demagogues

7/18/2018

  After recent study and due consideration I can say with certainty that to call President Trump the reincarnation of …

Continue reading »

Share this:

  • Email
  • Facebook
  • Print
  • Twitter
  • More
  • Pinterest
  • WhatsApp

Like this:

Like Loading...

J.D.Salinger – War Troubled

6/26/2018

Combing through the archives for my proposed magnum hopus, “What We Talk About When We Talk About War,” I came …

Continue reading »

Share this:

  • Email
  • Facebook
  • Print
  • Twitter
  • More
  • Pinterest
  • WhatsApp

Like this:

Like Loading...

Black Rain, Two Movies — Hiroshima After the Bomb

5/23/2018

The enormous, instantaneous destructive power of atomic weapons is the first, and sometimes the only, image that comes to mind …

Continue reading »

Share this:

  • Email
  • Facebook
  • Print
  • Twitter
  • More
  • Pinterest
  • WhatsApp

Like this:

Like Loading...

The Crazy Iris — Japanese Writers and the Atom Bomb

5/17/2018

Not much is more startling to read than a paragraph beginning “At about noon on the day Hiroshima was bombed …

Continue reading »

Share this:

  • Email
  • Facebook
  • Print
  • Twitter
  • More
  • Pinterest
  • WhatsApp

Like this:

Like Loading...
← Older posts

♣ Quotes

  • On Life and Death
  • On Time
  • On War
  • Workers, Unions and Organizing in Literature

♣ Search Here

♣ Categories

African-American Books Books:Fiction Books:History Books:Memoir Books:Nonfiction Books:Science Books:Translation Books:War China Climate Change Drought Egypt Essay:Will Kirkland Essays Fiction Fiction:American Fiction:Arabic Fiction:War Fiction:WW I France History Japan Movies Movies:America Movies:Documentary Movies:France Movies:Middle East Movies:War Movies:WW I Movies:WW II Music Novels Poetry Poetry:Will Kirkland Science Spain Translation Travel Reports Turkey Vietnam War WW I WW II WW I Timeline

♣ blog roll

  • ! The Last Dog Watch
  • .Ara Guler (Turkey) Photographs
  • .Will Kirkland Photos
  • Bridge of Hearts
  • California League of Conservation Voters Blog
  • Earth Policy Institute
  • Junk
  • Kutub: A Reading Group
  • Open Secrets
  • Siegfried Sassoon War Journals

♣ Environment: Action

  • Acterra
  • Blue Energy Group
  • Climate Solutions
  • Earth Policy Institute
  • Ecological Buddhism
  • International Rivers
  • Junk
  • Rocky Mountain Institute
  • Union of Concerned Scientists
  • Union of Concerned Scientists
  • Western Climate Initiative

♣ Environment: Blogs

  • Attention to the Unseen
  • California League of Conservation Voters Blog
  • Junk

♣ Environment: Documents

  • Discovery of Global Warming
  • IPCC 2021 Report
  • Resources for Climate Change
  • Wangari Maathai: Nobel Peace Prize Speech

♣ Environment: Organizations

  • Baiji Foundation — Freshwater Diversity
  • Center for Biological Diversity
  • Dispatches from the Vanishing World
  • Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
  • International Rivers
  • Quaker Earthcare Witness
  • Surfrider Foundation
  • The Species Alliance
  • Weather and Climate.net

♣ Pieces of Peace

  • Bridge of Hearts

♣ Politics:Blogs

  • RobertScheer

♣ Public Policy

  • Climate Solutions
  • Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
  • Open Secrets
  • Resources for Climate Change
  • The Drum Major Institute for Public Policy
  • Western Climate Initiative

♣ Religion: Documents

  • UU World: The Fundamentalist Agenda

♣ War & Empire:Blogs

  • War In Context

♣ War & Empire:Documents

  • National Security: Principles to Live By
  • Siegfried Sassoon War Journals

♣ War & Empire:Organizations

  • National Security Whistleblowers Coalition
  • The International Crisis Group

♣ Back Issues

Proudly powered by WordPress Theme: Chateau by Ignacio Ricci.

%d bloggers like this: