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It is also the best movie seen that uses a drama to tell history, without going to speculation such as with JFK,Nixon or Hoffa.
We can see how precarious countries sit in establishing new governments when their history is one of colonization and those who were the colonizers continue to pull the strings of power and force.
The first scene in the stairs is fantastic, but it isn't the only one, there is later a scene when Veronika attempts committing suicide, and another, in my opinion one of the most powerful scenes in movie history, the bombing of Veronika's house when she runs the stairs in the middle of fire, to find her apartment completely destroyed.
:-) My mother is a Civil War buff, and a history teacher, and every summer we would watch this movie (we had recorded it off TV), over several, several nights until we got through the whole thing.
As a history of Custer, this insn't even close (Custer dies to help the indians?
The 20th Century may well turn out to be the first and last century of the United States in the History of the World.
Clint Eastwood scores big in this thriller from 1993.Teamed with an absolute master of edge of your seat suspense,Wolfgang Peterson, Eastwood delivers as only he can.Also,John Malkovich goes on my list of most effective screen villains in the history of cinema as the demented assassin.As for Rene Russo as Clint's love interest,I think Kirk Douglas said it best when he said,referring to his own career,"I keep getting older,and my leading ladies keep getting younger".This film is a very effective thriller with enough plot twists and surprises to keep you going.Eastwood and Peterson should team together more often.
In summary, the film could use many improvements, but the quality actors and great music earn its place in film history.
A good old-fashioned flight-and-revenge western, given a twist and a touch of gravitas by injecting a little black social history into its plot.
Michael Radford, the director of "The Merchant of Venice" makes a tremendous job in opening the play, as he makes it more accessible for everyone to have a great time at the movies watching this thorny account of a horrible time in history.
East Side Story entertains and informs about an unknown part of Cold War history.
Instead, Any Gun Can Play lovingly parodies some of the biggest films in Spaghetti Western history.
It had some real interesting things in it that marked it's time in history, and some fun things that they don't have people do in today's film because it's not pretty.
For history buffs, people who like period films, and those that are in the film appreciation groups will like this one.
Kline plays Howard Brackett, a small town history teacher who excitedly sits down to watch the Academy Awards this year because one of his former students (Matt Dillon) is a nominee.
Samuel Fuller knows war, and is one of the only directors in American movie history who could accurately portray the horrific experiences of it in a form like the motion picture.
The whole thing revolves around the most egregious bit of miscasting in the history of school plays.
No. New York couldn't be so simple and there has been no human being in the history of mankind that has the "hutzpah" of Hitch.
Based on a classic TV series that stands alone in British TV Comedy history.
If one is to question every aspect with which one finds room for disagreement,and much of recorded history is based on contemporary opinions - often biased - then one should leave the cinema, because their prejudices will always spoil their enjoyment.
George Armstrong Custer is known through history as an inept General who led his rgiment to their death at the battle of Little Big Horn.
The "Odessa Steps" sequence in Potemkin is one of the most famous in the history of cinema.
This is particularly troubling since it seems to demean not only the characters in the movie, but also the history of immigration itself.
It was a delightful comedy of a period of history that doesn't lend itself easily to that genre.
Warner Brothers tampered considerably with American history in "Big Trail" director Raoul Walsh's first-rate western "They Died with Their Boots On," a somewhat inaccurate but wholly exhilarating biography of cavalry officer George Armstrong Custer.
It is always great to see a movie that teaches us about history in Africa as they are definitely too few.
I can't think of another title that can beat The Big Trail in evoking a sense of living history on the trail to Oregon.
More importantly, this radiantly beautiful film is a much needed reflective mirror for us to view the history of immigration of 'foreigners' into America at a time when the very mention of the word 'borders' is a political fuse.
Jenny Augutter is especially believable in her role as 'Bobbie' the older sibling of her sister Phyllis and brother Peter.The adventures they discover and relationships formed in their new home and surrounding area are very real and fascinating.The scenery is lovely,the trains a part of Britain's vast history and the soundtrack is very moving.
We had so many wonderful movies, like Batman Begins, Sin City, Corpse Bride, A History of Violence.....Coming up we also got Brokeback Mountain, King Kong....But if this year the only great movie that came out was Everything Is Illuminated, then we wouldn't miss all this year has brought.
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