‘Foxtrot’ Is a ‘Catch-22’ for Our Time
Samuel Maoz's philosophical black comedy is a triptych of surrealism laced with insights about warfare and grief that are both timeless and timely.
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Apocalypse, American Style
Apocalypse Now is the most iconic American film about America’s War in Vietnam. But we are not here to expand the myth. We are here to explode it.
The Difference Between Truth and Honesty: Director Richard Linklater on ‘Last Flag Flying’
“The people who complain about the military the most are the military,” says Richard Linklater. That’s why they like his film, Last Flag Flying.
‘Land of Mine’ Explores the Intolerable Costs of Nationalistic Vengeance
Land of Mine is perhaps the most powerful denunciation of nationalism's destructive force as we'll see on movie screens in 2017.
Artist Phil Collins Examines How War Is Presented to the Public in ‘how to make a refugee’
Phil Collins examines the consumerist aspects of depicting war in his short film 'how to make a refugee'.
Juxtapositions of Beauty and Destruction in Michael Cimino’s ‘The Deer Hunter’
Unlike war films to follow, there's no post-war celebration to be had in The Deer Hunter.
Double Take: Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove (1964)
With its obvious satire of male aggression and its parallel with today's news headlines, why aren't students 'getting' this classic ultimate black comedy?
‘Eye in the Sky’ Shows There Is No Remove When Waging War from a Distance
For all the intelligence and firepower that such technology allows, drones also raise pressing questions, laid out in Eye in the Sky with a schematic and often unnerving precision.
‘Vice and Virtue’ Is Resoundingly Allegorical and Artificial
Roger Vadim’s 1963 wartime drama Vice and Virtue is an almost abstract, self-parodic vision of decadence.