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Out on DVD | Inglourious Basterds
I’m still not fully won over by Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds, but there’s no denying his darkly comic World War Two action movie’s brazen counter-factual cheek or its genre-hopping panache. The story that allows Tarantino to hop from genre to … Continue reading
At the Cinema | The White Ribbon – Michael Haneke’s film gets under the viewer’s skin
Austrian director Michael Haneke has a knack of getting under the viewer’s skin – as anyone still in therapy after a viewing of Funny Games or Hidden will attest. His new movie, a period drama filmed in austere black and … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema Releases, The Best View
Tagged Funny Games, Germany, Hidden, Hitler, Michael Haneke, Nazis, Palme d'Or, White Ribbon
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Hitler learns that the Avatar trailer sucks
So the much-hyped trailer for James Cameron’s forthcoming sci-fi epic Avatar – unleashed in cinemas with much fanfare ten or so days ago – failed to knock fans’ socks off, despite the Titanic king’s promises. Happily, it did inspire this … Continue reading
The Best view | Inglourious Basterds – Quentin Tarantino’s WW2 revenge fantasy: it’s not only the spelling that’s juvenile
“Once upon a time in Nazi-occupied France…” So begins Quentin Tarantino’s much-hyped World War Two action movie, an ultra-violent fairy tale in which a band of scalp-hunting Jewish-American soldiers go on the rampage behind enemy lines… and, in an … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema Releases, The Best View
Tagged Apache, Brad Pitt, Cannes, Christoph Waltz, Daniel Bruhl, Diane Kruger, dirty dozen, Eli Roth, Ennio Morricone, enzo castellari, Ernst Lubitsch, Hitler, Inglourious Basterds, jackie brown, Jewish-Americans, Leni Riefenstahl, Mélanie Laurent, Michael Fassbender, Nazis, quentin tarantino, Sergio Leone, Sherlock Holmes, spaghetti western, Third Reich, World War Two
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Out on DVD | Valkyrie
Despite the looming presence of two major stumbling blocks, Valkyrie, Bryan Singer’s true-story movie about a plot to kill Hitler at the height of World War Two, makes a surprisingly effective wartime thriller. The first obstacle in the viewer’s path … Continue reading
The Best view | Good – Sleepwalking through the nightmare of Hitler’s Germany
We would all have been heroes had we lived in Hitler’s Germany, wouldn’t we? We would have recognised the dangers of Nazism from the start, held fast to our moral principles and taken an unwavering stand against evil. Of course, … Continue reading
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Tagged CP Taylor, Good, Hitler, Holocaust, Jason Isaacs, Jodie Whittaker, Mark Strong, Nazis, Philipp Bouhler, Vicente Amorim, Viggo Mortensen
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At the Cinema | Valkyrie
As the tide of World War Two turns against Germany, an aristocratic army colonel joins a clandestine group of disillusioned fellow officers who are conspiring against the Führer in this gripping wartime thriller. Appalled by Nazi atrocities, Tom Cruise’s wounded … Continue reading
