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5 days ago · A Meditation on Memory – Hiroshima mon amour (1959) Alain Resnais’s iconic French New Wave work is a poetic inquiry of war and memory rather than a documentary. With eerie images of the city’s devastation, the movie threads the tale of a French woman and a Japanese man in post-war Hiroshima.
5 days ago · If it wasn’t for the subtitles, you’d swear this was a British movie from the early 2000s, ... Mr. Takahashi narrowly escaped death when the atomic bomb landed on Hiroshima in 1945, killing ...
4 days ago · Review: In ‘Touch,’ a kitchen, curiosity and some bridges that can’t be crossed. Kōki, left, and Pálmi Kormákur in the movie “Touch.”. (Lilja Jonsdottir / Focus Features) By Robert ...
4 days ago · With Touch —adapted from the novel by Olaf Olafsson—Icelandic filmmaker Baltasar Kormákur gives us the thing we didn’t know we wanted: a cross-cultural romance that spans decades, built ...
4 days ago · Once the public learned of the Manhattan Project after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Oppenheimer—suddenly a household name as the "father of the atomic bomb"—became a national spokesman for science, emblematic of a new type of technocratic power; he appeared on the covers of Life and Time.
2 days ago · Set in a dystopian 2019, it tells the story of Shōtarō Kaneda, the leader of a biker gang whose childhood friend, Tetsuo Shima, acquires incredible telekinetic abilities after a motorcycle accident, eventually threatening an entire military complex amid chaos and rebellion in the sprawling futuristic metropolis of Neo-Tokyo.
6 days ago · I admire this film’s craft. And I would’ve appreciated a messier, inner-life impulse to go with it. “Touch” — 2.5 stars (out of 4) MPA rating: R (for some sexuality) Running time: 2:00 ...
