Archive for the ‘Movies’ Category
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Journey’s End – WWI Drama, 2017 Film
11 Jul 2019R. C. Sherriff, writer of such strange film scripts as The Invisible Man (1933,) based on H.G. Wells 1897…
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Keeper of the Flame – A 1943 Movie for Today
27 Jun 2019In 1943 the United States was fully engaged in desperate wars in Europe and the vast Pacific. Film studios…
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The War: A Memoir – Marguerite Duras
01 May 2019Marguerite Donnadieu was seventeen years old when she moved to France from a small village near Saigon, Vietnam, where…
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Soldiers Alive – A Novel of the Japanese in China, 1937
11 Jan 2019For century upon century, from the time of the stories of Gilgamesh (18th BCE), stories of war have been told…
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Resistance and Subversion in Literature and Movies
20 Nov 2018We like our stories of resistance to great evil to include bold cunning, great daring and a good complement…
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War / Shame: Ingmar Bergman
28 Sep 2018Ingmar Bergman‘s films are not generally thought of among war films: couples down and apart, landscapes severe and forbidding,…
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The Damned Days of August: 6th and 9th
06 Aug 2018Today is August 6, 73 years after the first use of a nuclear explosion in a war in human…
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All The Kings Men: Old Templates for New Demagogues
18 Jul 2018After recent study and due consideration I can say with certainty that to call President Trump the reincarnation of…
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J.D.Salinger – War Troubled
26 Jun 2018Combing through the archives for my proposed magnum hopus, “What We Talk About When We Talk About War,” I came…
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Black Rain, Two Movies — Hiroshima After the Bomb
23 May 2018The enormous, instantaneous destructive power of atomic weapons is the first, and sometimes the only, image that comes to mind…
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The Crazy Iris — Japanese Writers and the Atom Bomb
17 May 2018Not much is more startling to read than a paragraph beginning “At about noon on the day Hiroshima was bombed…
