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Looking For the Good War — Elizabeth D. Samet

3/8/2022

World War Two is, as we all know, “the Good War,” and those who fought it, “The Greatest Generation.” In …

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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 …

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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 …

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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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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 …

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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 …

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Wild Wild Country: Believing it All

5/8/2018

Anyone who has ever lived in, or been drawn to, Oregon, its coastal villages, conifer forests, big cities or high-desert …

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Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun? a documentary ….

3/3/2018

Travis Wilkerson’s new film, Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun?, is having a few, hard to find, viewings in the …

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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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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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