Besides being more directly reflective of Japan’s public discourse, theseJapanese-made WWII moviescover aneven wider range of topics than American co-productions. After all, Japan wasn’t just fighting against America during WWII — it invadedChina, fought theSoviet Union, and suffered greatly on...
movies; Hekmat was no Mata Hari at all but was a legendary entertainer and important member of Cairene high society; and Sansom was not the Sam-Spade-like sleuth who solved the case but one of several diligent British intelligence officers who helped catch the two German spies. In fact, ...
The only reason why it's surprising to seeDunkirkranked so high according to MetaCritic is the undeniable legacies of the other WWII movies mentioned here. Similar to Spielberg, Nolan transitioned into the war genre after finding tremendoussuccess with sci-fi and action films, and in both instanc...
collects five movies produced in England from 1942 to 1958. Two of them were made by Ealing Studios under the reign of owner-producer Michael Balcon, so this box belongs to the string ofEaling restorationsreleased this year by two companies, Film Movement and Kino Lorber, who seem to be ...
The story of Anne Frank (Billie Boullet) and her Jewish family became famous in the decades after the war. ButA Small Lightadds more context to the story by retelling it from the perspective of Miep Gies (Bel Powley), the secretary of Anne’s father, Otto Frank (Liev Schre...
–William Astore, Lt Col, USAF (Ret.), author of Hindenburg: Icon of German Militarism With its changing points-of-view and reverse timeline, Peter Van Buren’s “Hooper’s War” is a spiritual cousin to the movies “Rashômon” and “Memento”. The book is set in an alternate World...
While it’s not the Dirty Dozen or Saving Private Ryan, the Monuments Men is a great look at the Second World War from a rather unique perspective. The story is about a different breed of a soldier with a very noble mission – to protect not just the lives of civilians but ...
My experience of the “untraveled folks of Mainland China”, or at least the ones I knew, was that they were pretty well informed about the outside world with one exception; they believed what they saw in Hollywood movies. They were shocked when they found out I didn’t own a gun...
That is why I have decided to show the impact of the war on everyone's life from the perspective of a solitary little man. We have already seen a lot of physical horrors in war movies, but this movie is different. In The Shepherd, I want to show the psychological trials that people ...