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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, …

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1898 – Spain’s Last Men in the Philippines,

6/30/2017

I happened across Salvador Calvo‘s, 2017 movie 1898: Our Last Men in the Philippines / 1898: Los últimos de Filipinas  …

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Wonder Woman – More of the Same Manly Stuff

6/19/2017

Let me introduce myself as one of the only moviegoers in the western world to see Wonder Woman— on the …

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WW I: Not What Caused it, but What It Was Like

6/7/2017

The interest of readers in World War I seems to divide into three main categories: high-level diplomatic threats, promises and …

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On War with Gwynne Dyer

6/5/2017

On War with Gwynne Dyer is a seven episode television series done in 1983 under the auspices of the Canadian …

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Japan, After the War, Two Widows, Two Movies

6/3/2017

In nineteen forty-seven, a year and a half after the end of WWII, Japanese film makers were still facing war-time shortages, …

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More Post-War Movies: Three from Japan

5/30/2017

It is of continuing interest to me how people in all their cultural wrappings respond to portrayals of themselves as …

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Japan’s WW II Cinema: Bucking Up the Home Front

4/28/2017

Watching Japanese films from the 1940s and 50s  is difficult for many.  No big sword fights,no clothing shed in intimate love affairs. …

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Goya’s Ghosts

4/1/2017

Having carried some of the images of Francisco Goya’s Disasters of War in my mind from an early age, it …

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“Conspiracy” – A Film About Men and Laws

3/31/2017

As I heard Judge Neil Gorsuch last week during the hearings on his suitability for the Supreme Court, repeatedly assert that …

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Theeb: A Bedouin Boy in the WWI Desert

7/19/2016

Aimless movie wandering sometimes pays dividends.  We happened into a streaming presentation of Theeb, by British-Jordanian director, Abu Nowar. Recipient of considerable …

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Halima’s Path: Love, Neighbors, Enemies and Loss in the Bosnian War

12/2/2015

I prefer movies that immerse me in the real world, rather than those which provide distraction, through song and dance, fanciful fictions  or …

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