Tag Archives: World War I

Babylon Berlin

Posted on February 12, 2018 by admin

“Dad says the anticipation of having something is often more fun than actually having it. I think he’s crazy. I hate waiting for things. I like to have everything immediately. I can’t think of anything I’d rather anticipate than have right … Continue reading →

Posted in How Movies Work | Tagged 1920s, Achim von Boris, Alfred Hitchcock, Babylon Berlin, Cabaret, Cloud Atlas, David Bordwell, Fritz Lang, Game of Thrones, Henk Handloegten, Liv Lisa Fries, Lola Rennt, M, PTSD, Run Lola Run, Sense8, shell shock, Suspense, The Third Man, thriller, Tom Tykwer, Volker Bruch, Volker Kutscher, Weimar Republic, World War I, World War II | Comments Off

Battlefield 1

Posted on October 17, 2016 by admin

“In the end, the film would merely consist in showing a victim, a man who had been subjected to an entirely unjust and appalling fate, and, on the other, the mechanism leading up to it. This would be inappropriate, for … Continue reading →

Posted in How Movies Work | Tagged All Quiet on the Western Front, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Barbara Tuchman, Battlefield 1, D-Day, Erich Maria Remarque, Flyboys, Francois Truffaut, Gavrilo Princip, history, realism, Saving Private Ryan, The Guns of August, trench warfare, World War I, World War II | Comments Off

Nameless, Unreasoned, Unjustified Terror

Posted on February 8, 2016 by admin

Last summer I jumped into the rabbit hole that is the twisted imagination of Charlie Manson, courtesy of Karina Longworth’s podcast You Must Remember This, which covers “the secret and/or forgotten history of Hollywood’s first century.” Now Karina is starting a new … Continue reading →

Posted in How Movies Work | Tagged Arthur Miller, Blueprint for Armageddon, Carl Foreman, Communism, Dan Carlin, Elia Kazan, Franklin Roosevelt, Gary Cooper, Hardcore History, High Noon, Hollywood Blacklist, Japanese Internment, Karina Longworth, On The Waterfront, podcasts, The Blacklist, The Crucible, The Political Thriller, Vladimir Lenin, World War I, You Must Remember This | 1 Comment