Alex Garland's A24's 'Civil War' movie is provoking debate about its timing amid a contentious election year. Watch the trailer.
Joel (an excellent Wagner Moura) admits he’s mostly in it for the rush. A mournful voice of wisdom comes from Sammy (Stephen McKinley Henderson), an aging journo working “for what’s left of The New York Times,” as Joel sneeringly puts it. But what's at stake in this war?
Foregrounding the body of the soldier as a medium of sensory experience and as a body at risk, their work recalls the long history of war photography, painting, and film, dramatizing the importance of the figure of the body in narratives of war, and the power of somatic imagery to shape...
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But then last year, the AP obtained and published the footage, which showed what really happened: Troopers swarming Greene’s car, stunning him repeatedly, punching him in the head, dragging him by the shackles and leaving him prone on the ground for more than nine minutes. At times, Greene...
On June 14, 1888,The New York Timesreportedthat the members of the Shaler's Brigade Association, a Civil War brigade under the leadership ofGeneral Alexander Shaler, had the previous day dedicated four monuments at the field of Gettysburg. The dedication was part of a twenty-five-year reunion...
Inspired by the death of four family members from "legal drugs" Texas filmmaker Kevin Booth sets out to discover why the Drug War has become such a big failure. Three and a half years in the making, the film follows gang members, former DEA agents, CIA officers, narcotics officers, ...
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He mentioned that part of his route down to Florida was going to take him near Shiloh National Battlefield. Ryan noted his interest in that battle and the larger war, which necessitated me calling into the show and sharing my experiences visiting the site two times. I friended him on Face...
At the end of the school year, I like to show my 8th grade students the movie “Freedom Writers.” It’s a good culminating film for the class because many of the subjects and texts we read are mentioned by the characters –“The Diary of Anne Frank,”“To Kill a Mockingbird,”thec...