Lina Wertmüller became the first ever female director nominated for Best Picture for a movie that, to my surprise, turned out to be about an amoral hatchet murderer trying to seduce his way out of a concentration camp.
Tag Archives: World War II
FROM HERE TO ETERNITY (1953)
A big romantic melodrama among army guys and ladies on Hawaii, with the impending doom of Pearl Harbor hanging over everything.
DOCTOR ZHIVAGO (1965)
An epic of Russian history that’s more interested in its central love dodecahedron than it is in Russian history, a fact that leaves me wondering what the point of it all is.
THE LIFE AND DEATH OF COLONEL BLIMP (1943)
A truly amazing movie that takes a negative stereotype and helps us understand him, in beautiful technicolor, with some of the most interesting performances I’ve seen, all made in England during the Blitz.
THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI (1957)
A famous war drama that is actually about something more interesting, told on a grand scale by David Lean and bunch of great actors.
ROMA CITTÁ APERTA (1945)
Perhaps the definitive “neorealist” film, shot in the rubble of Occupied Rome just after the Nazis had left.
CASABLANCA (1942)
Maybe the classic Old Hollywood movie, made at the height of World War II and maybe one big metaphor for the war itself.
SHOAH (1985)
An absolutely essential first-person historical document about one of the worst events in history.
SOPHIE’S CHOICE (1982)
Meryl Streep’s all-timer of a performance can’t make me ever want to watch this movie again.
WHITE CHRISTMAS (1954)
Great Irving Berlin songs, great performances, and a plot you shouldn’t think about too hard.
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