Tag Archives: World War I

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 | Leave a comment

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