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- Elegant and sad, Letters from Iwo Jima is a war movie about loss. Director Eastwood conceived it as a companion piece to Flags of Our Fathers, and it is at once a more finely focused and more profound film, with violence that can never answer the questions raised by its long moments of anticipation.
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Feb 19, 2007 · Letters From Iwo Jima is Clint Eastwood’s deeply moving reflection on a tradition so alien as to be incomprehensible to those of us who inhabit another time and place, another universe of...
Dec 22, 2006 · In a pivotal sequence, Nishi -- a horseman who competed in the Los Angeles Olympics of 1932 -- orders his medic to treat a mortally wounded American GI with what remains of their morphine. Later he...
Elegant and sad, Letters from Iwo Jima is a war movie about loss. Director Eastwood conceived it as a companion piece to Flags of Our Fathers, and it is at once a more finely focused and more profound film, with violence that can never answer the questions raised by its long moments of anticipation.
- Clint Eastwood
- Cynthia Fuchs
- Warner Bros.
With a cast of characters that includes a former baker, who wants only to see the child born after his induction, a comrade doing penance following his disgraceful dismissal from an elite home-guard, and an Olympic equestrian champion who brought his stallion to the island, Letters lovingly develops the humanity of the Japanese soldiers our ...
Dec 20, 2006 · They show how the experience of war is both a shared and a divisive experience, separating the dead from the living and the winners from the losers, even as it binds them all together. Both films...
Feb 25, 2007 · Letters is framed by the discovery of a cache of letters hidden in 1945 and exhumed 60 years later.
Jan 23, 2007 · The story of the 35-day World War II battle for the Japanese island of Iwo Jima, told from the perspective of its defenders, including unconventional Lt. General Kuribayashi (Watanabe),...
