Revisionist. There, that’s it. A one word review, succinct, neat, accurate. Need I say more? Hopefully the answer on your lips is yes. Oh go on then, I’ll give you the full Great War Films experience. There’s something a bit different about Great War Films compared to any other genre of film. They’re all, at […]
Read more "The Red Baron (2008)"Everyone knows Lawrence of Arabia, it’s one of those films that’s just part of the furniture of cinema history. If it suddenly wasn’t there, magically stolen by some alien civilisation somehow, we’d notice it was gone. The slightly brighter piece of carpet below its spot in the corner of the dusty room where we’d kept […]
Read more "Lawrence of Arabia (1962)"There are at least three films dealing with Mata Hari on my list. I’ve made my way through one of them, ‘Mata Hari’ (1930) which was a bit of a struggle. That can probably be blamed more on the era it was produced in than on the subject matter. Mata Hari was a name I […]
Read more "Fraulein Doktor (1969)"If I say Canada, what do you think of? Assuming you don’t live there you probably think of Mounties, Snow and people saying ‘aboot’ when they mean ‘about’. From a Great War perspective the Canadians come out of the history books looking courageous and fierce. They fought with valour at the big ding dongs in […]
Read more "A Bear Named Winnie (2004)"My film today comes with some Great War Film pedigree attached. This is the middle film in a triptych from director Howard Hawks. Starting with ‘The Dawn Patrol’ in 1930 which will get a review at some point, followed by my film today ‘Road to Glory’ and finishing with the slightly rubbish ‘Sergeant York’ Hawks […]
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