[lit-ideas] Movies
- From: "Andreas Ramos" <andreas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Lit-Ideas" <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2006 13:43:04 -0800
Watched...
Manchurian Candidate (1962). Cold War drama thriller. Ultra-right wingers save America from
Commies. It's fairly watchable. Frank Sinatra does some lousy acting. Angela Lansbury is
very good as the reptile mother.
Joyeux Noel ("Merry Christmas") (2005). A French/German film. During WWI, French, German,
and Scottish soliders faced each other in trench warfare. On Christmas, soliders put down
their weapons and visited each other. Very powerful movie about war and the people caught up
in it. Very good ensemble acting. Excellent details about life in the trenches. Beautiful
music. The film is tri-lingual, in French, English, and German, with sub-titles, although
many of the background comments aren't translated. For example, one German says to another
"Mut hoch" ("Raise the dog high").
yrs,
andreas
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