Posts Tagged with ‘Movies:War’
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WW I In The Italian Alps: Torneranno i Prati by Ermanno Olmi
21 Oct 2015Ermanno Olmi is best known in the United States for his 1978 movie, The Tree of Wooden Clogs, even though…
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War in Movies: Small, Tense, and In Your Face
14 Oct 2015The 38th Mill Valley Film Festival has made a special effort to find and present Spanish language films this year,…
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Massacre in Rome, Richard Burton as a Nazi
24 Sep 2015Surely one of the lesser known movies from the Italian film corpus on WW II is Massacre in Rome, (Rappresaglia)…
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Rome, Open City, 1945
14 Sep 2015The Nazi occupation of Rome ended on June 2, 1944, nine months after it had begun, four days before the…
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General della Rovere – Roberto Rossellini Looks at Choices in War
07 Sep 2015Roberto Rossellini’s Generale della Rovere, 1959, while not properly part of his great WW II trilogy which defined the emerging Italian…
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Resisting Tyranny – Led by the Young
31 Aug 20151972 in Czechoslovakia was 4 years after the 1968 Prague Spring, seven months of relative freedom which ended abruptly with…
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The Crimson Field: Nursing at the Western Front
20 Jul 2015Happy to recommend a PBS/BBC mini-series that hasn’t got much attention: The Crimson Field Set in an imaginary field hospital…
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Testament of Youth — WW I Pacifist Comes to Film
02 Jul 2015Vera Brittain, one of the least lost of the Lost Generation of WW I, is on her third revival…
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The Water Diviner: In Galipolli Looking for Bones
08 May 2015Russell Crowe New Zealand/Australia’s perennial candidate for the movies’ most manly man, does a creditable job of re-visiting the trauma of…
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Restrepo — Documenting Soldiers In A War
15 Apr 2015Hand-held verisimo video has been much in the news lately, bringing, at long last a change in perception about the reality…
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1,000 Times Goodnight – a Film about Temptations (of death)
14 Apr 2015I am a great admirer of Juliet Binoche, as many movie goers are; if she’s in a film I’ll go out of…
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Oh What a Lovely War! — Irony and WW I
11 Feb 2015When Richard Attenborough’s movie, Oh What A Lovely War! appeared in October, 1969 I didn’t see it. Regardless of his…
