Wild Wild Country: Believing it All
Anyone who has ever lived in, or been drawn to, Oregon, its coastal villages, conifer forests, big cities or high-desert …
Category Archives: Movies
Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun? a documentary ….
Travis Wilkerson’s new film, Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun?, is having a few, hard to find, viewings in the …
Language Does Not Lie — Victor Klemperer
Victor Klemperer was a philologist, a German and a Jew in Dresden during the Nazi regime and the world war. As …
1898 – Spain’s Last Men in the Philippines,
I happened across Salvador Calvo‘s, 2017 movie 1898: Our Last Men in the Philippines / 1898: Los últimos de Filipinas …
Wonder Woman – More of the Same Manly Stuff
Let me introduce myself as one of the only moviegoers in the western world to see Wonder Woman— on the …
WW I: Not What Caused it, but What It Was Like
The interest of readers in World War I seems to divide into three main categories: high-level diplomatic threats, promises and …
On War with Gwynne Dyer
On War with Gwynne Dyer is a seven episode television series done in 1983 under the auspices of the Canadian …
Japan, After the War, Two Widows, Two Movies
In nineteen forty-seven, a year and a half after the end of WWII, Japanese film makers were still facing war-time shortages, …
More Post-War Movies: Three from Japan
It is of continuing interest to me how people in all their cultural wrappings respond to portrayals of themselves as …
Japan’s WW II Cinema: Bucking Up the Home Front
Watching Japanese films from the 1940s and 50s is difficult for many. No big sword fights,no clothing shed in intimate love affairs. …
“Border Incident,” 1949 and Desperate Men At the Border
Anthony Mann was a prolific director (42 credits) of Hollywood movies from the early ’40s to the late ’60s. Many …
Goya’s Ghosts
Having carried some of the images of Francisco Goya’s Disasters of War in my mind from an early age, it …