The recountal is tinged with documentary footage and nigh-experimental scintilla attempting to visualize the stuff of poetry that hint at this being something exceptional from a master’s intellect.
Tag: war movies
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Sunken Roads: Three Generations After D-Day
Unfortunately, what Juergens presents onscreen comes across more like a loose scrapbook or vlog than a film.
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In Hacksaw Ridge, a conscientious objector must prove himself in battle
Mel Gibson is back with a biopic of the World War II hero who never fired a shot.
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An old-fashioned take on today’s armed forces, and the rest of this week’s movies
A roundup of new and notable movies playing in Chicago between January 10 and 16
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Revisiting Walter Hill’s 1981 quasi-war movie Southern Comfort
The director of The Warriors has become so alien to contemporary American cinema that his movies feel new again.
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Never mind Bruno, here’s The Hurt Locker
Kathryn Bigelow’s heart-stopping war movie is being showered with accolades, all deserved. Also this week: Bruno, the Chicago premiere of Godard’s Made in U.S.A., and a brooding (what else?) documentary on Beethoven.
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Too close? Maybe, maybe not.
Is the American public too close to the war in Iraq, as a Trib teaser suggests? Or is it the opposite?