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Aug 14, 2017 · August 14, 2017 at 9:00 pm. In This Corner of the World. The latest in a series of tear-jerking anime movies to make their way over to North American theatres is a coming-of-age story set in 1940s ...
- “Dr. Strangelove”
- “Hiroshima, Mon Amour”
- “War Games”
- “Crossroads”
- “White Light, Black Rain”
You can’t have a conversation about nuclear weapons without Stanley Kubrick’s “Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb” sliding into the discussion. Whether you’re speaking with a B-52 pilot, a film festival audience, or the Department of Defense, “Dr. Strangelove” always comes up. Kubrick’s introduction to the subject ...
Historical world events mark our lives like dots on a timeline. To me, Renais’ 1959 feature debut, “Hiroshima, Mon Amour,” centers around the question: Where and who were you when you learned that the atomic bomb dropped? The film helped kick off the French New Wave, and centers around a two-day, romantic extra-marital affair between a French actre...
Some film lines are so iconic that they’re quoted long after the movie’s release and the words affect generations to come. “Shall we play a game?” of John Badham’s “War Games” is etched in the memory of every nerdy kid. It unleashes a wild story. In this 1983 science fiction film, teenager David Lightman (Matthew Broderick), filled with an innocenc...
I remember the first time watching Bruce Conner’s masterpiece “Crossroads,” thinking how simple yet brilliant it was. Conner trusted in the simplicity of the bomb. He didn’t need to do much to show the sublime and chilling nature of these apocalyptic nightmares. The film depicts tests involving the detonation of a weapon with a yield equivalent to ...
It may have been 75 years ago, but the memory remains painfully fresh to the surviving victims of the atomic bombs that fell on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The survivors, known as “hibakusha,” suffer from the effects of radiation poisoning, loss of family and friends, and discrimination. Survivors’ stories are the wrenching focal point of the HBO docum...
- Smriti Keshari
Apr 8, 2017 · April 8, 2017. A fact that will come up in nearly every review of the film Your Name as it opens in theaters across North America this weekend is how it was the highest-grossing film in Japan last ...
Aug 10, 2017 · In This Corner takes painstaking efforts to recreate the look and feel of Hiroshima before the bomb, and makes it into a bustling region of forgotten life. Katabuchi's years of research for the ...
Aug 4, 2017 · Columbus: Directed by Kogonada. With John Cho, Haley Lu Richardson, Parker Posey, Michelle Forbes. A Korean-born man finds himself stuck in Columbus, Indiana, where his architect father is in a coma.
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- Drama
- Kogonada
- 2017-08-04
Sep 8, 2017 · It: Directed by Andy Muschietti. With Jaeden Martell, Jeremy Ray Taylor, Sophia Lillis, Finn Wolfhard. In the summer of 1989, a group of bullied kids band together to destroy a shape-shifting monster, which disguises itself as a clown and preys on the children of Derry, their small Maine town.
Dec 20, 2017 · The Greatest Showman: Directed by Michael Gracey. With Hugh Jackman, Michelle Williams, Zac Efron, Zendaya. Celebrates the birth of show business and tells of a visionary who rose from nothing to create a spectacle that became a worldwide sensation.
