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Showing posts with label movie. Show all posts
Showing posts with label movie. Show all posts
Thursday, June 20, 2024

Cool Hand Luke: "What we have here is a failure to communicate"

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A few nights ago, I saw the 1967 movie " Cool Hand Luke " starring Paul Newman .  Several minutes into watching the movie, I was r...
Monday, April 29, 2024

Civil War, the movie: In the first fight, I knew who was going to die

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       The map of the divided America in"Civil War" The new movie Civil War  is a love letter to journalism, maybe a little too mu...
Sunday, November 22, 2020

The Movies in Paris

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  A year ago on the Sunday before Thanksgiving, I drove southwest of Paris on a cold, cloudy day to visit the Circuit de Sarthe, the site of...
Sunday, May 3, 2020

Movies in the Time of Corona: Blue, White, Red--A Trilogy

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As part of my personal Corona Film Festival, I watched the trilogy Blue, White, Red:  Three Colours.  These magnificent stories of lo...
Saturday, April 18, 2020

Corona Movie Five: Kelly's Heroes

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Donald Sutherland as "Oddball" My youngest son and I have been watching movies every other day the past week and a half. Th...
Thursday, April 16, 2020

Corona Film Festival Movie Four: The Wild Bunch

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My son Nigel and I are having a Corona Film Festival. The most recent and fourth film on our list was " The Wild Bunch ."  The m...
Sunday, April 5, 2020

"Midway" Movie Shows How Great American Leadership Can Be

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My son Nigel and I just finished watching the movie "Midway." I first saw it in a theater in Paris in November. I cried thr...
Saturday, January 10, 2015

Politics and Freedom in "Fury"

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This morning I was reading Hannah Arendt's "The Promise of Politics" on freedom and leadership.  Politics, Arendt says, shoul...
Saturday, November 29, 2014

"Fury" for the Fifth Time, Focus on Faith

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Shia LaBeouf as "Bible" in "Fury." Yesterday my son Nigel and I went to see "Fury" for my fifth, his second ti...
Thursday, October 9, 2014

Apache Live Fire

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In mid-August I watched AH-64D Apache Longbow helicopters fire rockets and cannon at targets on Range 40 at Camp Grayling, Michigan.  The ex...