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The War: A Memoir – Marguerite Duras

5/1/2019

  Marguerite Donnadieu was seventeen years old when she moved to France from a small village near Saigon, Vietnam, where …

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Resistance and Subversion in Literature and Movies

11/20/2018

  We like our stories of resistance to great evil to include bold cunning, great daring and a good complement …

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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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“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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Massacre in Rome, Richard Burton as a Nazi

9/24/2015

Surely 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

9/14/2015

The 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

9/7/2015

Roberto 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

8/31/2015

1972 in Czechoslovakia was 4 years after the 1968 Prague Spring, seven months of relative freedom which ended abruptly with …

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“The Imitation Game” Could Be A Better Imitation

12/22/2014

There’s an interesting irony to the title of the new movie about Alan Turing and the breaking of the German …

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The Well-Digger’s Daughter — Another Pagnol Gem

8/16/2014

Maurice Pagnol, the French novelist, and film maker –just to hint at his curriculum vitae— is likely best known to …

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The Human Condition: What Is A Man to Do? Japan in Defeat

2/6/2013

Masaki Kobayashi’s war time epic, The Human Condition, at 9 hours and 45 minutes, in black and white, with subtitles …

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