Living Is Easy With Eyes Closed
Just saw this a second time. Nothing changes in the review! It’s out now on the regular circuit… Stop the …
Category Archives: Movies
The Golden Era — A Writing Woman in Occupied China
Ann Hui, the prolific Hong Kong director, not well known in the United States, adds a serious biopic of Chinese …
Looking for the Dead: Bertrand Tavernier Takes a Look at WW I
Some 350,ooo French soldiers in WW I have never been found. Is that possible? With almost one million five hundred …
“The Imitation Game” Could Be A Better Imitation
There’s an interesting irony to the title of the new movie about Alan Turing and the breaking of the German …
Blood and Oil: The Middle East in World War One
History written in text books is one thing, (hi)stories re-told from father to son, down the line of tribes and …
Arabs in WW I
This looks like this will be very interesting, from Al Jazeera: World War One was four years of bitter conflict from …
WW I: Coming Home from the Eastern Front
Almost everything we westerners know about WW I has to do with the Western Front, the British, the French, the …
Particle Fever – A Movie to See
Stepping completely away from WW I (see all the postings below) or other day-to-day concerns, I spent a wonderful 90 …
The Well-Digger’s Daughter — Another Pagnol Gem
Maurice Pagnol, the French novelist, and film maker –just to hint at his curriculum vitae— is likely best known to …
A Soldier on the Southern Front — Italy, WW I
World War I brought with it some 10 million combatant deaths, 23 million wounded. Two and one half million non combatants died from fire and …
A Jail Break Against the Draft
On my way down to spend a week in the Mojave desert I queued up Edward Abby‘s Desert Solitaire on …
H2 Worker – Legal Immigrants and Illegal Employers
Update below. As a one-time volunteer for the United Farm Workers (AFL-CIO) the human cost of industrialized field labor has …