Posts Tagged with ‘Movies:America’
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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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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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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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“Border Incident,” 1949 and Desperate Men At the Border
18 Apr 2017Anthony Mann was a prolific director (42 credits) of Hollywood movies from the early ’40s to the late ’60s. Many…
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“Conspiracy” – A Film About Men and Laws
31 Mar 2017As I heard Judge Neil Gorsuch last week during the hearings on his suitability for the Supreme Court, repeatedly assert that…
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Movies: Black Fiction, Black History
22 Feb 2017What a great couple of months it’s been for movies about the African-American experience. The African-American Film Critics Association calls 2016…
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Where to Invade Next – Michael Moore
09 Mar 2016Despite the contentious nature of his movies Michael Moore has never been a mean or belligerent film-maker. He has seemed…
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The Big Short: The Street, The Book, The Movie
22 Jan 2016There are no good guys in Adam McKay’s new movie, The Big Short, nor in the book of the same name…
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Trumbo: On the Black List for Being Red
14 Dec 2015Yep. Go see it. Good, straight-ahead story, mixed fabulously well with archival footage of the era – the ’40s and…
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A Poet and His Work, In Film
20 Oct 2015Poetry in film, now there’s a small sub-genre of the movie world. Hayden Reiss‘s long labor of love, Robert Bly:…
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Robert Bly, Poet, Crying Out….
17 Oct 2015I saw a wonderful documentary film the other day, titled Robert Bly: A Thousand Years of Joy, about which more…
