WW I In The Italian Alps: Torneranno i Prati by Ermanno Olmi
Ermanno Olmi is best known in the United States for his 1978 movie, The Tree of Wooden Clogs, even though …
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War in Movies: Small, Tense, and In Your Face
The 38th Mill Valley Film Festival has made a special effort to find and present Spanish language films this year, …
Massacre in Rome, Richard Burton as a Nazi
Surely one of the lesser known movies from the Italian film corpus on WW II is Massacre in Rome, (Rappresaglia) …
Rome, Open City, 1945
The Nazi occupation of Rome ended on June 2, 1944, nine months after it had begun, four days before the …
General della Rovere – Roberto Rossellini Looks at Choices in War
Roberto Rossellini’s Generale della Rovere, 1959, while not properly part of his great WW II trilogy which defined the emerging Italian …
Resisting Tyranny – Led by the Young
1972 in Czechoslovakia was 4 years after the 1968 Prague Spring, seven months of relative freedom which ended abruptly with …
The Crimson Field: Nursing at the Western Front
Happy to recommend a PBS/BBC mini-series that hasn’t got much attention: The Crimson Field Set in an imaginary field hospital …
Testament of Youth — WW I Pacifist Comes to Film
Vera Brittain, one of the least lost of the Lost Generation of WW I, is on her third revival …
The Water Diviner: In Galipolli Looking for Bones
Russell Crowe New Zealand/Australia’s perennial candidate for the movies’ most manly man, does a creditable job of re-visiting the trauma of …
Restrepo — Documenting Soldiers In A War
Hand-held verisimo video has been much in the news lately, bringing, at long last a change in perception about the reality …
1,000 Times Goodnight – a Film about Temptations (of death)
I am a great admirer of Juliet Binoche, as many movie goers are; if she’s in a film I’ll go out of …
Oh What a Lovely War! — Irony and WW I
When Richard Attenborough’s movie, Oh What A Lovely War! appeared in October, 1969 I didn’t see it. Regardless of his …