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“De Nadie” (Laguna Productions) is an incredible film and it impresses beyond the wildest imagination. It looks at reality from the inside and makes you wonder if the human hasten actually exists.
Immigration is such an vital topic nowadays and seems to be the major news memoir slow the upcoming presidential election. As Americans, we only gain one side of the epic and that is the American side. We hear and we read about those deported all of the time but they are nameless and faceless people. They are not a piece of us and we tend not to care about them. “De Nadie” gives them both faces and names. In reality we are all immigrants living in a nation of immigrants–we have all advance to America from somewhere else–at least some portion of our family did but we have chosen not to remember that. The film shows us what we have not seen and chosen not to remember nor talk about. We observe that coming to America is no simple saunter and it is not fair about a border crossing. To learn about immigration we must venture to the source and that is in the home country of those who arrive here. The film looks at Mexico as the home country and takes us along the road to the United States. As we fade we forget what it is to be human. After all we live in America, the land of plenty and opportunity. Not only do we feel that the country is ours but we conclude the door to others and at the same time, ignore the steady boom of poverty. As Americans we should be ashamed because we know that our continent is more than unbiased one country. We despise instead of helping and by doing so, we lose our sense of humanity.
I do not judge many of us truly understand the scrape of Central Americans who form their blueprint through Mexico and it is painfully shown here. These people are forced into making astronomical sacrifices objective so they can live better lives and provide for their families. As the son of American immigrants who came here from Russia, I have been privy to may stories but to actually observe the struggle makes everything I have ever heard become accurate. Isn’t life really about wanting to do better? If so, why does anyone have the just to squash that desire? The entire aspect of immigration to America from Mexico has caused ample debate but we have not been aware of the route that Central Americans have had to buy to simply salvage closer to their goal of immigration to the United States.
By looking at the stories of several immigrants. The film explores the many challenges that they face—everything from transportation and health issues to downright government corruption and the shatter up of families. There are times that I felt, while watching the film, that I had seen too worthy and did not want to glance anymore but then the movie brings forth compassion as if it is a sudden ray of hope. So often we forget about the human side of immigration and peek at it as only an yelp. “De Nadie” puts a face on immigration and makes us survey at it in a completely different way–the arrangement we should notion it.
This ugly documentary depicts the difficult hump and struggle of immigrants trying to earn it to the US through Mexico and Central America. It provides troubling insight into the abuses suffered at the hands of Mexican authorities. No surprise it won at the Sundance Film Festival.
For music lovers, the wonderful soundtrack alone is worth the pick.
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WOW! To many Americans, the French and Indian War, was a casual footnote in a long ago history class. Ditto for references to Braddock’s Defeat, Fort Duquesne, and Geo. Washington’s initial exposure to warfare. To a few more, it might generate a recollection that, if they ever read it, “The Last of the Mohicans” by James F. Cooper, was plot during this war. It also inspired Longfellow’s record poem, “Evangeline”. A reference to the Siege of Louisbourg or the Plains of Abraham will likely result in a blank ogle. My experience over the years has been that our Canadian neighbors and friends have, in many ways, a better plan of what this war meant to North America than we Americans do. I refer not only of the loss of Canada by France to Britain, but the planting and sprouting of issues during this war, that would fuel and feed the sparks of the American Revolution. This series does a incredible job of taking powerful history, keeping it honest, chronilogical, understandable, AND, above all, Racy. It somewhat came across as if I were watching an action/adventure/war movie EXCEPT that I’ve read several dozen books about the French and Indian War (aka the Seven Years War) and the historical accuracy is generally here. To those of you with an Ph.D. in history I say, relax, relish, and remember; to those without, belief, be pleased, and learn. Your time will be well spent.
“The War that Made America” is an overview of most of the major events, and the people enthusiastic in them, of the French and Indian War. It’s sort of documentary/miniseries hybrid. Like a documentary, it’s narrated by an actor- Graham Greene, occasionally shows paintings and drawings from the era, and presents maps to highlight where the historical events took station. However, unlike most documentaries, there are no historians discussing the subject or fresh scenes of areas where the battles took residence. Instead, the film attempts to bring the main events of the war to life by “re-enacting” them through the utilize of actors. I’m hestitant to consume the word “re-enactment” to recount the live-action scenes because that conjures up images of middle-aged, overweight folks waddling about in period costumes and “dying” melodramatically for the camera. The “War that Made America,” although obviously constrained by a rude budget, appeared to have made attempts to to avoid the image of “passe guys playing army” that unfortunately attaches to most documentaries that rely heavily on the services of amateur historical enthusiasts. The live action scenes are fairly subdued and I didn’t stare any 300lb fifty-year faded privates or corporals.
For its historical viewpoints, the documentary appears to have relied heavily upon the work of historian Fred Anderson- the author of the “Crucible of War” which is a terrific book on the Seven Years War. Thus, unbiased as Anderson portrayed in his book, the American Indian tribes are shown as serious political players in the struggle and not objective peripheral allies as they are usually portrayed by other historians. Further, since Anderson thinks that the guerilla warfare of expertise of American ranger outfits is nothing more than a memoir, Robert Rogers and his rangers are not even mentioned which may surprise some people. However, the film does avoid one of Anderson’s more loopy beliefs- James Wolfe was suicidal and that battle of the Plains of Abraham was simply a method for him to extinguish himself.
The documentary focuses on most of the notorious events of the war- the attack on Jumonville’s glen, the battles of Fort Necessity, Monogahela, the Bloody Morning Scout and Lake George, Fort William Henry, Ticonderoga, and the Plains of Abraham. It also discusses the problems that the British high issue had with the colonial assemblies (something Anderson focused heavily on in his book) . Approach the raze, it point to some of the events of Pontiac’s uprising. Also, the film constantly reminds the viewer that the French and Indian War is crucial to opinion why the American Revolution occured.
That link between the French and Indian War and the American Revolution is mostly demonstrated by the film’s portrayal of the key role that young George Washington played in the F&I war and how it shaped his development as a man and as a commander. The role of George Washington is nicely played by Larry Nehring- a Cleveland stage actor who has Washington’s imposing height and auburn hair. (Although he’s a microscopic too used to be playing a man who was unprejudiced in early 20′s when most of the events of the film rob residence. The film also has an incredibly overaged “Mary Jemison.)
The film is fairly even handed. It does not pretend that the Indians were not responsible for atrocities such as the Fort William Henry massacre or for what Shawnee raiders did to the Jemison family. Thus, it’s not as “PC” as some have complained here especially in light of the fact that there are “historians” out there who have attempted to whitewash every Indian atrocity.
Overall, this was a very nicely done documentary on a engrossing subject. Yes, it had a public TV documentary budget and looks it, but it does appear that the producers tried hard to accomplish every cent count. It provides a nice overview for people not really familiar with this period of history. It probably going to be shown in a lot of schools.
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“America: Stories of War” is a ample collection of 36 DVDs, representing over 170 hours (7+ days!!!) of war documentaries and theatrical films dealing with various conflicts throughout America’s history. Attractively packaged in a tin designed to behold like an ammo can (complete with battle scars), this collection from Mill Creek Entertainment assembles two of their sets in a single, larger package, including a documentary site that’s also titled America Stories of War and a 50 movie space titled Combat Classics 50 MoviePack.
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The documentaries are spread over 24 single-sided DVDs and mask the following:
* The Civil War (10 documentary segments)
* World War I (10 segments)
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* World War II (91 segments)
* The Korean War (32 segments)
* The Vietnam War (51 segments)
One might quibble about the exclusion, especially, of the Revolutionary War and other conflicts such as the War of 1812, the Spanish-American War, and the unique War in Iraq, but with nearly 200 documentary segments included for the five conflicts listed above, it’s easy to overlook these omissions. There’s also a definite amount of propaganda throughout some of the documentaries, but that’s largely overshadowed by some amazing images captured by numerous combat photographers.
Both the Civil War and World War I documentaries were produced by Creation Films and are of new vintage, carrying a 2008 copyright date (the only licensed material in this otherwise public domain collection) . As I viewed the Civil War documentary segments, they reminded me of a terrible man’s version of “Ken Burns’ The Civil War” that was broadcast on PBS. While the production values aren’t in the same class as the Burns film, the narration is compelling in its enjoy draw and, after a tiring, inaugurate, I found myself thoroughly engrossed in the material. The World War I documentaries fare a bit better; motion relate cameras had been developed by that time and cameras were taken into battle. I hadn’t heard about Creation Films before watching these two documentaries, but despite what must have been a modest budget, the documentaries are well done and I’d be keen in seeing other documentaries that the company might effect in the future.
The World War II segments comprise the largest allotment of the documentaries and include some critical documentaries that were developed for television, including NBC’s Emmy award winning “Victory at Sea” (yes, the novel Richard Rodgers/Robert Russell Bennett find is intact), “Crusade in Europe,” which was one of the earliest war documentary series developed for television, running on ABC from May to October of 1949, and “Crusade in the Pacific,” a syndicated series. All of the World War II films that were portion of Frank “It’s a Fantastic Life” Capra’s “Why We Fight” series are also included in this grouping.
Many of the Korean War segments are from yet another television documentary series, “The Substantial Record,” that ran on ABC from 1953 to 1959. This series was produced by the U.S. Army and the Department of Defense. Likewise, the Vietnam War segments are also government productions, but some of the segments are in color.
The films selection is a decidedly mixed bag as the films included consist of older films that have slipped into the public domain due mainly to lapses in copyright registrations. There are some bonafide classics and advance classics in this group, including “One of Our Aircraft is Missing” and “The Immortal Battalion” (both British films made during the years of World War II), as well as “Go for Broke” and “Blood on the Sun,” among a few others. But the mountainous majority of the films are B-movie programmers from the U.S., England, and Europe that were produced between the 1930s and 1980s. There are even a few made-for-TV movies in the mix, including “The Sunless Brigade” a/k/a “Carter’s Army” and “Hitler’s SS: Portrait in Sinister.” The bulk of these films are focused during the World War II era, but a few films like “Drums in the Deep South” and “Hearts in Bondage” are region in the Civil War era and then there’s the irregular film like “Eagle in a Cage” that tells the myth of Napoleon’s exile and “The Notice of the Hawk,” a drama that uses an African uprising as its backdrop.
The films appear to be unrestored, but are in relatively proper shape. However, most of the discs have four films on a single side, so there is some occasional digital breakup/blurring in scenes where there is a lot of motion, due to the compression of so many films on each disc. But, considering that a collection like this is the only diagram that many of these older films will ever peek a release on DVD, they are generally acceptable.
The challenge for many purchasers of this location will be finding time to conception the many hours that are included in this collection and, in fact, this is one of the few times where it’s glowing to say that this collection offers years of viewing pleasure. In fact, this location is so spacious that viewers will need to poke themselves, perhaps watching a film each week along with several of the documentary segments. Veterans, military enthusiasts and those eager in a visual history of America’s conflicts will score mighty to like in this location. While the documentary segments (comprising two-thirds of this residence) rate an easy *****, the theatrical film selection isn’t quite up to scratch and, as such, my overall rating for the station is closer to **** & ½.
AMERICA: STORIES OF WAR 36 DVD COLLECTION from MILL CREEK ENTERTAINMENT combines their previously issued 24 disc war documentary residence with COMBAT CLASSICS 50 MOVIE PACK, for a total of 170-plus hours of programming. Several of the documentaries included here are licensed exclusively to this manufacturer. Audio and video transfer quality is generally quite superb, but does depend in some cases on condition of vintage stock footage.
This fresh package consists of discs stored in heavy dusky paper envelopes; each has a circular-shaped cellophane window on one side for rapid identification of the dvds. The set’s container is a well-constructed olive drab tin replica of an ammunition box. The hinged lid is held securely closed at one narrow raze by a spring-loaded clasp. It also has an attached lunch box style handle for easy transport. Opening the top reveals an insert photo of loose copper-tipped ammo. Flip this up for access to DVDs and a 40-page contents booklet.
Overview of DOCUMENTARIES–
AMERICA DIVIDED (2008) – Includes vintage maps, photos, newspapers and art, plus re-enactor footage and keen break-downs of troop movements during battle. Narration: Ray Foushee. Reliable transfer quality.
THE WAR TO Kill WAR (2008) – Rare vintage films and photos, plus spirited maps yelp the narrative of the first global conflict of 1914-18. Narrator: Fred North. Capable quality transfer.
GREAT BATTLES OF WORLD WAR II – Various contemporary U.S. gov’t and studio shorts picture the war’s progress. Most expose sincere battle footage captured by Signal Corp and other cameramen. With contributions from Hollywood actors, directors and crews. Most films are in remarkably valid condition for their age.
WAR IN EUROPE and WAR IN THE PACIFIC – “Europe” consists of 26 chapters while “Pacific” has 24. Obvious segments appear sunless. Some include unique narration. Hard to identify these as none have unique credits. “Mill Creek” logo appears on-screen occasionally.
VICTORY AT SEA – Award-winning half-hour series first broadcast on the NBC-TV network in 1952. Scored by Richard Rodgers, with narration provided by Leonard Graves. Unusual films are well-preserved. Audio is muffled on some episodes.
THE FORGOTTEN WAR – Includes chapters of TV series “The Enormous Portray” that originally aired beginning in 1953, plus a John Ford-directed color documentary (that’s blurry), Some titles have muffled sound, other appear grayish.
AMERICA’S CONFLICT – Color and b&w government-produced films of varying transfer quality are quite gripping overall. Famed actors contribute narration for some.
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What an exceptional series! My daughter, who teaches art, encouraged us to hold this series of programs because she was deeply inspired by watching one of the programs, so we gave it a try. Wow! What an adventure, visiting unbelievable, racy people from all across the country, and feasting on the rich diversity of elegant, works of crafted art! You meet toothsome, amusing, earthy, fearless people of many different “types” who fraction their lives and works. You view them doing their work, gathering in communities, struggling to score their intention through life… and bearing the mosts aesthetic, diverse works! The quality of the creations makes it harder to discern art from craft. But the best fraction is unprejudiced delighting in memoir after yarn of improbable people, the inviting accounts of their life journeys, to communities that support them, and their awesome works of art! Another delight is the photography of the people and the environments from which their works arise. The filming and editing are exceptionally graceful and often worthy!
This series came as a fabulous surprise; I had never heard of it and had grievous expectations. But the consistent high quality of the interviews and the visuals, and the tremendous diversity of the featured artists, makes it a stand-out in the art documentary genre. It emphasizes each artist’s sense of location, as well as illustrating the plot creative traditions are fused with culture and passed down over generations. A must-see for anyone enthusiastic in the creative process.
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What really astonishes about Cabiria is that it was made in 1914. Technically it appears to be far grand to most films from this ‘early silent’ period. The yarn is bewitching if somewhat complex and the acting is naturalistic. There are some extraordinary moments in this film, moments of dread, violence, comedy and ample human emotion. At times the scenes of terror really startle because they are so unexpected in a film from 1914. The tale carries the viewer far and wide over the Roman world, but does so in such a arrangement that the narrative feel does not overshadow the human drama and the complex emotions of the characters. This is a high quality DVD. The characterize is beautiful with only a few signs of print decay. The biggest spot probably arises from the titles often being very long and rather flowery in their language, so that it is significant to finish the DVD to read them. I have read that Cabiria was at one time shown at a length of three hours. This DVD is unbiased over two hours. I have no doubt that this version is the most complete available, and given the variable speeds of restful films it is difficult to contemplate how powerful, if any, of the film has been lost. It would be grand if there was some more detailed information, on the DVD packaging, which might positive up this sigh. Furthermore I have seen stills of Cabiria which prove that some prints were originally tinted. It would have been better if the film could have been restored with these recent colours. These are, however, minor quibbles and do not change my decision to rate this DVD as highly as is possible.
This was the first complete still movie I have ever seen, and it was inspiring to see and ponder its making 88 years ago. Considering the small technology in movie-making then, this movie was and is a masterpiece. It has astounding scenery and/or sets, and the costuming reflecting the veteran Carthaginian and Roman cultures is well-done, although I can spy the influence of the styles of 1914 in clothing, hair, and makeup.
The melodramatic acting is corny at times, but it gave rise to discussion in my family about how exaggeration was needed in mute movies to compensate for the lack of speech, which in unique movies carries a lot of weight in creating the record. The written interludes with dialogue and narration were not frequent, and therefore not stupid, however, I often found it hard to follow the place, which has as remarkable to do with my unfamiliarity of the history of the period, as to uncertainty about what the acting was portraying. Nevertheless, I kept my eyes glued to the veil, following the exiguous Roman girl Cabiria, sold to the Carthaginians to aid as a ceremonial sacrifice, later rescued to aid in the palace, and all the ensuing events surrounding her as the tides of war surge between Rome and Carthage.
I discovered this movie after watching the movie, “Genuine Morning Babylon” which is about two young Italian men who go to America to gain work, and ruin up meeting the film producer, D.W. Griffith. Griffith has honest viewed “Cabiria” and is so overwhelmed, he throws away his unique film to compose one called “Intolerance” which he vows to manufacture as excellent as Cabiria. In Intolerance he tries to recreate an elephant statue he had seen in Cabiria, and so while watching Cabiria, I was looking for and found those elephant statues. This historical chain of movies, from Cabiria, to Intolerance, to Gracious Morning Babylon, is an enthralling stare in itself.
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“Seven Days in May” was a so-so book that John Frankenheimer turned into an absolutely smart movie. It’s an obedient cold-war drama, made at a time when tension between this country and the Soviet Union was at boiling point. At the center of the chronicle is President Jordan Lyman, a well-meaning, somewhat naive chief executive who has pushed through a nuclear disarmament treaty with the Soviets, which most of the country, and all of the military, terror the Soviets have no device of honoring. The stage is area for a political confrontation between the president’s supporters, who feel they must attend him whatever their private apprehensions, and his opponents, who terror he is selling the country out. Enter at this point a career soldier with political ambitions, General James Scott, who plans to assign his astronomical popularity to work in devising a way that he thinks will achieve his country, which is nothing less than a military situation to overthrow the government. However, loose lips can sink a ship, and a few chance words approach the ears of Colonel Jiggs Casey, a Marine torn between his loyalty to his general, General Scott, and his commander in chief, president Lyman. What makes a agreeable soldier, and what makes a apt patriot? That is the pickle Casey has to reach to grips with as he realizes that the clock is ticking, the status is underway, and there are less than seven days left before something very mountainous goes down.
The movie has minimal action and a lot of dialogue, but the tension is maintained nicely throughout, and the acting is uniformly edifying. Among the qualified cast, the standouts are Frederic March as the president, Burt Lancaster as General Scott, Kirk Douglas in one of his finest roles as Colonel Casey, and Ava Gardner, quiet drop-dead blooming, as Scott’s cast-off mistress, drowning herself in booze, self-pity and resentment. The final verbal confrontation between Casey and Scott reach the movie’s waste is one of the best I’ve ever witnessed on film. The movie grabs possess of you from the opening frames and keeps you riveted fair to the waste, all the while making you wonder, could it really happen here? Let’s hope we never salvage out…
There were a number of pleasurable political thrillers in the Sixties, and Seven Days in May is one of the best. Fredric March stars as the President who is trying to push through a nuclear disarmament treaty, but he is meeting a lot of resistance. Chief among them is General Burt Lancaster, who has decided to remove over the government to continue building America’s military. Lancaster has developed an clarify belief for his takeover, but his assistant, Kirk Douglas, has been left out. When Douglas begins to suspect something, the tension starts to rise. The dwelling sounds extraordinary, yet as written by the titanic Rod Serling and directed by John Frankenheimer, it is only too believable. The performances are all top notch by the stars, while Ava Gardner as Lancaster’s musty mistress and Edmond O’Brien as an alcoholic senator supporting the treaty shine in supporting roles. This is a sparkling movie that will hold you befriend to a time not long ago when the Icy War had stupefied the world. This is the kind of brilliant, tense thriller I wish we could seek more of these days.
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Rabbit ears on pawn shop televisions are about my speed; needless to say, I don’t seek television. However, kind friends mainline this series two or three shows at a time, and they got me hooked: were I to be completely impartial, I might have to admit to giving serious plan to obtaining this by less-than-legal-means. It actually might be worth jail time.
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Speaking as someone who was born in America’s deep South, this series captures everything about Louisiana that is engrossing. (Spanish Moss, vampires, latent racism and homophobia, the dichotomy between Christian Southern values and patriarchal, brutality-enforced poverty, sassy Southern women who know how to fight with chains, etc.)
What it makes it really stand out, though, is the casting: there isn’t a terrible actor in the bunch–and they are all believable as Southern archetypes. Nelsan Ellis as the short order cook/drug dealer Lafayette and Stephen Moyer and Anna Paquin as the romantic leads give mesmerizing performances.
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True Blood, or possibly the modern series of books from which it arose, is an spirited station of stories: Faulkner says that the only thing really worth writing about (or thinking about, by extension) is the human heart in conflict with itself. The Southern United States depicted in Moral Blood is conflict embodied–you are a supposed to be a advantageous Christian, and follow the rules of an established society, but you live in the middle of a swamp so dense and wild that it believably could be home to minions of Satan, like vampires.
It’s a lot to reflect about. If you are one of those artistic/professional types with too powerful to do, don’t commence watching this; it becomes an obsession.
And Now: A Short Review of the Dependable DVD–this is the regular, not Blu-Ray version, as my $100.00, cigarette-burned, pawn shop t.v. doesn’t do Blu-Ray.
Price: $10.00 less than my local electronics store.
Extras: There is some very silly stuff here that was not on the fresh websites for the series: ads for lawyers for vampires; vampire hotels; vampire dating, all done with the appropriate levels of erroneous terrible acting and camp.
Don’t be jumpy to stare at the French language ad as well. It uses all of six French words which you probably already know.
There is also a short video parody of someone like Hugh Downs doing an in-depth record on vampires. Complete with dreadful video backgrounds for foreign locales and hokey vampire internet conspiracies, this is a well-done, satirical background engage on some of the ‘vampire movement’s more glossed-over history.
One negative: the commentary tracks play over the novel episodes; it’s super to stare for about five minutes, and then it’s a limited bit like dissecting a romantic relationship–the mystery dies once the magic interested gets out into the shiny light of day.
However, overall, Good Blood Season One is well worth watching again–particularly in the pilot episode, the acting, and the disaster the cast and crew build into characterization and detail, is even more distinct the second time around.
“Thou Shall Not Crave Thy Neighbour.”
True Blood ponders the question: Why do generous girls tumble for poor boys? Alan Ball is perhaps best known for his originality and aesthetics in writing the Academy-Award-winning screenplay for American Beauty, and for creating the HBO television note Six Feet Under. Based on Charlaine Harris’s Sookie Stackhouse series, Ball’s unusual HBO series, Accurate Blood (which recently premiered on HBO on September 7, 2008), is another expedient reason to occupy a television these days. Space in Bon Temps, Louisiana, the Southern Vampire television series tells the gothic cherish record of Sookie Stackhouse (Anna Paquin), a telepathic waitress, who falls in fancy with the town vampire, Bill Compton (Stephen Moyer) . Sookie is a virgin, “cursed” with the ability to hear people’s thoughts. Bill is a 173-year-old vampire who, despite his Southern charms, has only one thing on his mind when it comes to Sookie. Meanwhile, as religious leaders and government officials debate the safety issues surrounding the co-existence of vampires and humans, “Dreadful Things” (as the show’s theme song suggests) are happening to the residents of Bon Temps. The show’s soundtrack (by Gary Calamar) is equal parts “swampy, bluesy and spooky.” Ryan Kwanten plays Sookie’s brother, Jason Stackhouse, a sex addict who is also addicted to “V” (vampire blood) for its viagra-ecstasy-like effects. William Sanderson and Chris Bauer play the puny town’s rather inept investigating law enforcement officers. Mighty like Six Feet Under, Correct Blood reveals Alan Ball’s genius for recent storytelling. Good Blood is not only television with fangs, it is television at its bloody best.
12/12/08 Update: Suitable Blood received a Golden Globe nomination this week.
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I had wanted to like this movie so worthy. As distinguished as I wanted to like Windtalkers. Both had potential to be really mammoth but were unable to rise above an absolutely juvenile and cheesy script. I am an avid WWII buff and I give alot of license to war movies and don’t prefer them apart for their accuracy or lack there of but this one not only insults the viewer but the legacy of the 92nd/Buffalo.
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The Grand : Absolutely aesthetic cinematography. If you could peaceful the sound (dialogue) one might believe they were watching a comely decent WWII era movie. Battle scenes were shot well. Uniforms were handsome expressionless on correct and the weapons were proper although Thompson SMGs and 1911 .45 caliber HGs did not have 100 round clips……
The Poor : Bad and embarrassing dialogue embellished with overacting which made it almost funny. Obligatory nudity. Soldiers using language and phrases that would be obsolete only today. A German louspeaker that blares Axis Sally’s propaganda for several square miles over the battlefield and is audible to all. Fragmented fable with a total lack of cohesion (like this review) . My current is the commanding white officer (Nokes? ) stating that the Germans were going to cause a run riot by piping in the propaganda. I mediate that those audacious soldiers were more involved in staying alive and protecting their comrades than starting a rush riot in Italy under fire. But then again this shows the mentality of Spike Lee and the writer.
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The Gruesome : All white officers and soldiers portrayed as bigoted haters. In one instance the commanding officer refuses to fill members of the 92nd crossed the river so does not send supporting artillery strikes. His reasoning for this is “He is lying”.
This same commanding officer condescendingly orders a shadowy soldier to glean him water. The shaded soldier spits into the canteen before giving it to white officer. Not only does this lower the mentality of the movie several notches but also slanders the memory of those valiant men of the 92nd/Buffalo that fought for their country.
This movie had potential, unfortunately it was executed by someone who was unable to swear. It is filled with contemporary language, original topics of discussion, terrible acting, and endless preaching about the evils of America. Spike Lee had scolded Clint Eastwood for not having any African Americans in Iwo Jima and had wanted him to rewrite history. Well, Spike has done that with this movie.
Positives:
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Negatives:
(1.) Disjointed storytelling with poorly constructed flashbacks (everyone’s currently approved cinematographic technique to showoff cleverness) .
(2.) Stereotypic characterizations with sophomoric scripting.
(3.) Cheaply constructed military & war effects e.g. military uniforms that stare as if they were cleanly pulled out of museum storage each day; cigarettes & munitions that last forever despite long term isolation from supply encourage.
(4.) Worst of all was that the well-known account of dim WWII infantry was turned into preachy propaganda & simplistic absolutes that do not permit the audience to be thoughtfully educated but instead to be insulted as if they were moronic simpletons.
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Amos Lassen
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“Constantine’s Sword (First Hurry Features), based on the bestseller by James Carroll, is a search for the truth that comes face-to-face with persecution and violence in the name of G-d not only in the past but at explain as well. The film, directed by Oren Jacoby, examines the legacy that has been passed from generation to generation beginning with the Emperor Constantine and extending to unique day religious fanaticism.
The film plays like a detective tale. We follow Carroll as he goes into his maintain past and into the larger world where he finds Christian church violence against non-Christians. We go to the Air Force Academy where we explore evangelicals trying to bag converts within the armed forces of America and we view how religious influence can bring about serious consequences on American foreign policy. We are then faced with the examine of whether it is fanaticism fueled by religious fervor that threatens the unique world.
The title, “Constantine’s Sword” refers to the Christian dismal which caused the Emperor Constantine to bawl “in this notice you will conquer” thereby making the inappropriate a symbol of war rather than a symbol of appreciate and peace.
The film looks at the history of Christianity as a trend that caused oppression which led to the most deplorable crime of all, the Holocaust. It also looks at the reveal day and concentrates on the family of Mickey Weinstein and how it challenges the evangelicalism of the Air Force Academy.
This is perhaps the most radiant documentary I have ever seen and it mesmerized me completely. It exposes religion as an underlying and unhealthy trend in the original world and compares the religious fervor of today with the Crusades when so many were slaughtered in the name of G-d. This is a film that will fling and appall you. Hopefully it will also cause you to interrogate yourself in order to live a better and more fair life.
“Constantine’s Sword,” the movie version of John Carroll’s book, is now available on DVD; it can also be watched on-line if you have Netflix.
There’s a mountainous deal of autobiography in the film. Carroll’s father, Joseph Carroll was an well-known Air Force general; an FBI agent, Joseph Carroll was then sent to the fresh Air Force, commissioned a colonel, and within two years was a major general. He was the founding director of the Air Force’s Office of Special Investigations, and then the founding director of the Defense Intelligence Agency; it was he who brought the photos of Russian missles in Cuba to Kennedy’s attention.
The younger Carroll grew up on military bases, met John XXIII with his family as a teenager, and in the wake of the nuclear uncertainty of the Frigid War, opted to pursue those things that would last. His first mass was notorious at a chapel on an Air Force base; growing disillusioned with the war in Vietnam, and feeling called to follow the Prince of Peace, he slipped in fair a diminutive allusion in that first homily. He preached on Ezekiel’s vision of the dry bones; he mentioned they had been burned by the sun. More than that, burned by napalm. Such a dinky rebellion-such a miniscule insult to the military-but enough to drive a wedge between James and Joseph.
Carroll was a priest from 1969-1974, increasingly active in opposing the war, which destroyed his faith in both governmental and churchly authority. In an interview from those days he notes the silence of the US Catholic hierarchy to the bombing of civilians in Vietnam and opines, “Were US bombers dropping contraceptives on the Vietnamese, the American Catholic hierarchy would have condemned it quickly; but we were dropping napalm, and they said nothing.”
These personal stories are sketched throughout the movie, which begins at the US Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, and the speak of aggressive evangelization of non-Christians, especially Jewish students, by evangelical churches in the place and by evangelical faculty, staff and students of the Academy. He interviews Academy graduate Mikey Weinstein, who was disturbed when one of his two sons then at the Academy told him of anti-Jewish slurs he had been subjected to, and of the aggressive promotion of “The Passion of the Christ” by the Academy.
Carroll uses this incident to commence into a discussion of two issues: the history of Christian hostility to Jews, and of the linkage of Christianity with military power. He visits Milvian Bridge outside Rome, and Constantine’s vision of a improper with the motto, “In hoc signo vinces,” becomes the guiding metaphor for the book-”Irascible and sword become one. Christianity turns violent.”
He surveys how this baptized violence spread across Europe, and became a means to unite feuding Christian kingdoms in a war against a popular enemy, the Muslim “infidel”-and against closer enemies, against whom Christians had a long-standing grudge.
Carroll relates how he grew up in a typical Irish-Catholic family, trusting in a holy church with holy saints, priests and bishops. Now he saw those “holy” priests and bishops calling for bloody conquest, even leading pogroms against Jews in the name of Christ.
He travels to Spain, where Jews were first forced to convert to Christianity; then, when Christians became suspicious of the integrity of those they had forcibly converted, the Spanish Inquisition was created to investigate and to punish. When Jews were expelled from Spain, many were welcome in Rome, until 1555, when chief Roman inquisitor Giovanni Cardinal Caraffa became Pope Paul IV, who restricted Jewish intercourse with Christians and created a ghetto in which they must live.
Though unusual popes, especially John Paul II, have taken immense strides to repair relations with Jews, Carroll doesn’t reflect they’ve gone far enough. John Paul denounced Nazi antisemitism, but blamed it on neo-paganism, refusing to retort that another fraction of its foundation was the legacy of Christian anti-Judaism, of accusations of “Christ-killer” and the blood libel. Only this can define the collusion of many Catholic prelates with Nazism. He goes to Trier, where one of the supposed relics brought aid from the Holy Land by Helena, the Robe of Christ, has been kept since the time of Constantine. The Bishop of Trier supported the National Socialists in the election of 1933, and to celebrate their victory, arranged for the Robe to be displayed. Vice Chancellor Franz von Papen represented Hitler, and, with the bishop, sent a telegram to Hitler pledging their mutual cooperation. While it was on exhibit, Eugenio Pacelli (later Pope Pius XII) signed the concordat with Hitler-protecting the institutional church while accepting Nazi rule. Pacelli might not have been “Hitler’s Pope,” says Carroll, but he was certainly “Hitler’s Cardinal.”
That same year Edith Stein wrote to the pope to warn of Nazi antisemitism and of the dim future that would face Europe’s Jews; five years later, now known as Teresa Benedicta of the Heinous, she lamented in her diary that the pope had never bothered to answer … and that all she had predicted had reach lawful. This wasn’t mentioned in her canonization in 1998; she was canonized as a martyr, despite the fact that she went to Auschwitz not because of her Catholic faith, but for her Jewish blood.
In Rome, the anti-Jewish legislation of Paul IV was rescinded when Italy unified and the pope was banished to the Vatican; it was revived by Mussolini, however, and when in 1943 Mussolini rounded up the Jews of Rome to deport to Auschwitz, the pope said nothing. A survivor says in the film, “If the pope had only taken the anxiety to go outside the gate-and not say anything, unprejudiced do as he did when Rome was bombed-just go outside the gate and stand in silence, with his arms raised in the compose of a spoiled, there might never have been a deportation. Italians and German Catholics would not have gone along with it.” But he never appeared.
Carroll affirms the strides taken forward by the Catholic Church in the latter allotment of the 20th century, especially the “change that mattered most” at Vatican 2, the decree, Nostra Aetate. But he wonders how grand it has sunk in. He speaks with Fr. Stanislaw Obirek, a Polish Jesuit, suspended by his order because, Carroll says, he wanted a fuller accounting for the Catholic Church’s role in Polish antisemitism.
Returning to the US, Carroll listens to the rhetoric of George Bush’s “war on panic”-language of “crusade,” “honorable vs. irascible,” “God is not neutral”-and hears echoes of past attempts to fuse dismal and sword That’s what frightens him about what he saw happening at the Air Force Academy; it appears to be a case of religion and military power coming together, with young evangelicals in the military inspired by their religious zeal to fight Middle East enemies. This isn’t the spirit of Jesus, but the spirit of Constantine, which is aloof alive after 1700 years.
The movie can be faulted for its disparagement of Scripture (Carroll accepts uncritically whatever Elaine Pagels tells him), but it remains a considerable testimony to the experiences of those who have been carve by Constantine’s sword.
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King Boxer (aka Five Fingers of Death) came out in 1973 and is a classic example of a Shaw Brothers kung fu film – a genre they helped pioneer and perfect with this movie being one of the finest efforts from this time period. It also has the distinction of being the first kung fu film to be released in the United States, honest ahead of Bruce Lee’s equally influential Enter the Dragon. In the 1980s, it inspired filmmaker John Carpenter to beget Huge Pain in Dinky China and more recently was a spacious influence on Quentin Tarantino’s Demolish Bill movies.
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The filmmakers beget unprejudiced the moral level of pacing with very short lulls between action sequences. Let’s face it – we’re not watching King Boxer for its thoughtful characterization. That is not to say that this film is not well made or doesn’t grasp itself seriously because it does, but it is hardly Shakespeare either. Director Cheng Chang Ho employs sudden zoom in and outs and even the occasional freeze frame during many of the film’s dynamic fight scenes. This is a beautifully shot movie with expert exercise of the 2.35:1 widescreen aspect ratio with superior compositions of every frame. The spend of shadows for dramatic do in one scene, and a brief fight that takes situation at sunset that looks like something fair out of 1950s Technicolor era, is fraction of the reason why this film is so revered among kung fu film fans.
King Boxer features betrayal, torture, revenge and even some gallant style redemption thrown in for sterling measure – all heightened to melodramatic levels making for a very provocative plod. Our hero has to deal with a devastating injury and his have self-doubts before he can face the abominable guys and employ the Iron Palm technique to assign the day. You soon accept yourself rooting for Chi-Hao to obtain the competition and the cute woman he loves as well. Even though our hero triumphs at the waste, it is a awful cost with friends, family and his mentor dull or horribly maimed all because of a petty rivalry between two martial arts schools.
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There is an audio commentary by filmmaker Quentin Tarantino and film critics Elvis Mitchell and David Chute. Treasure or abominate Tarantino, the guy knows his film history, displaying an impressive encyclopedic knowledge of kung fu cinema. For example, he not only talks about how it was the first kung fu film released in America but then rattles off 5-6 other films that came after. This is a very involving, information-packed track by three guys who are fans of the film and present a favorable adore for the genre. Highly recommended.
“Interview with Chang-Hwa Jeong.” He talks about how he got eager with the film. Initially, he found the script to be “favorite” and studied Chinese history and literature in order to form improvements. He talks about some of the techniques he weak to create the action sequences so engrossing and visceral.
“Interview with action director Lau Kar Hover.” Kar Cruise was the kung fu director on the movie and speaks about how he approached the many fight scenes, including the challenge of matching the actor with their stunt double seamlessly.
“Interview with film critic/scholars David Chute and Andy Klein.” Chute gives the film a historical context in terms of American cinema including its ghastly level of violence at the time. They point out that the soundtrack was a pastiche of music ripped off of other film and that this would often hamper its distribution because of rights issues.
Also included are two trailers and alternate opening sequence that features very vulgar opening credits.
Finally, there is a “Stills Gallery” with poster and promotional photographs.
I was surprised to stare some reviewers give this movie a lukewarm rating–not for the fighting as grand as for the movie’s situation. I’ve seen maybe 12 martial arts fliks–fewer than many reviewers, so maybe I’m a bit green. But I view the station was Spicy, and the acting outstanding. Although the position features very typical outcomes for the honorable and the abominable guys, and predictable subplots (like the hero’s faithfulness to his first girl attend home in the cramped village in spite of the very hot but sterling second girl who tempts him),the magic is in the details–we can guess that A will lead to B, but HOW THIS MOVIE GETS FROM A TO B is VERY WELL CRAFTED. As for the acting, the hero truly manages to be subtle at the same time that he is passionate. He shows a nice mix of the weak vs. the flashy (though detached understated) hero. I loved the clever switch from his playing the role of submissive reserved student who crawls out of the bar after being humiliated by the newly arrived fearsome abominable guy one day, to his return the next day to the bar in an oustandingly doughty and silly payback scene. The women were stereotyped, but managed to play their roles with that sexy Asian girl grace, and with a sweetness that didn’t seem overdone. As for the fighting? Who am I to say, but my eyes feasted. There was always a nice balance between the fighters so that it wasn’t definite till the very demolish who would fetch. And the transitions from one fighting scene to the next in the last half hour were done so well, and with such surprising location twists and drama that I was on the edge of my seat!
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