Posts Tagged with ‘Movies:WW II’
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The War: A Memoir – Marguerite Duras
01 May 2019Marguerite 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
20 Nov 2018We 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
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.…
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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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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 Imitation Game” Could Be A Better Imitation
22 Dec 2014There’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
16 Aug 2014Maurice 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
06 Feb 2013Masaki Kobayashi’s war time epic, The Human Condition, at 9 hours and 45 minutes, in black and white, with subtitles…
