Posts Tagged with ‘Movies’
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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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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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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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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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Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun? a documentary ….
03 Mar 2018Travis 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,
30 Jun 2017I 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
19 Jun 2017Let 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
03 Jun 2017In 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
30 May 2017It 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
28 Apr 2017Watching Japanese films from the 1940s and 50s is difficult for many. No big sword fights,no clothing shed in intimate love affairs.…
