The Archers Hit a Bull’s-eye: Powell and Pressburger’s A Matter of Life and Death
“This is the universe. Big, isn’t it.”
Category: War
In the Realm of Natural Transcendence: Emir Kusturica’s Life Is a Miracle
Out of the pastoral
Punishment Parks: The Battle of Algiers on DVD
Look familiar?
Don’t Follow Leaders: Animal Mother in Full Metal Jacket
Kubrick’s shaman/artist takes on “the leaders”
The Altered State of War: Heaven, Hell, and the Structure of the Combat Film
“The duality of man. The Jungian thing, sir.”
Animation · Historical & Epic · War
Private Snafu’s Hidden War: Historical Survey and Analytical Perspective
The famed doofus of WWII propaganda cartoons served purposes patriotic and perfidious
Worthy of the Slaughter? On Saving Private Ryan
It’s not just Ryan who needs saving. My friend Kevin and I were lingering over one too many bourbons. The jukebox was playing “What If God Was One of Us.”[…]
Vittorio de Sica’s The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1971)
“His Finzi-Continis, set in the years 1938 to 1943, is an autumnal work in two senses – the subject is the last golden flash of freedom before one of history’s major tragedies,[…]
Combat Autopsy: Raoul Walsh’s The Naked and the Dead
“What is most disturbing about all of this is the straight, uninflected manner in which Walsh visualizes the story.” Writers on film rarely discuss the combat genre and, when they do, they[…]
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