[lbo-talk] and then there's always war movies....

Marv Gandall marvgand at gmail.com
Mon Oct 29 04:33:59 PDT 2012


Good list. Also, the Australian antiwar films, Breaker Morant and Gallipoli. TBattle of Algiers reminds me of another great Pontecorvo film, Burn.

On 2012-10-29, at 1:26 AM, andie_nachgeborenen wrote:


> The Dirty dozen
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> A bridge too far
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> The seven samurai
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> Stalingrad (German, anti war)
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> Casablanca (hey, it's about the occupation of Paris and the war in North Africa)
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> The battle of Algiers
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> Open city
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> Gone with the wind
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> Clint eastwood's us and japanese Iwo Jima set
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> The sands of Iwo Jima (john Wayne, camp)
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> The pianist (not camp)
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> The big red one
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> The bridge over the river Kwai
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> Henry V (Branagh)
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> Glory
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> Apocalypse now
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> Sent from my iPad
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> On Oct 28, 2012, at 7:35 PM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote:
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>> My faves:
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>> --Zulu (introducing Michael Caine, based on actual event)
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>> --Paths of Glory (banned in France for a while, based on actual event)
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>> --Forbidden Games
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>> --Ballad of a Soldier (Russian)
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>> --The Cranes Are Flying (Russian)
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>> --Battle of the Bulge (for pure camp, with the immortal Robert Shaw)
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>> --The Wild Bunch (for philosophizing, gore, and Robert Ryan)
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>> and folks tell me, haven't seen it yet
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>> --All's Quiet on the Western Front
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>> Joanna
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