| | Gross: Heroism never enters the picture, apart from the willingness of Kirk Douglas’s Colonel Dax to try to expose the hypocrisy and wrongdoing of executing three men for cowardice. Seung-woo Kim, Approved His estrangement from Prince Hal (Keith Baxter), the man destined to become Henry V, plays as both inevitable and tragic, and the closing observation that Hal became a prudent, humane king who “left no offense unpunished nor friendship unrewarded” rings with both truth and regret. Kali (pronounced Kaylee) lives in Utah and loves it there. Elliott Gould, Renoir fills Grand Illusion with hopeful suggestions that a common humanity can overwhelm nationalism, but also a sense that the possibility for that sort of connection is slipping into the past — along with any sense that war can be a noble exercise. Between 1945 and 1946, Roberto Rossellini released three movies depicting various phases of World War II. This Samuel Fuller-vehicle stars Richard Basehart as Corporal Denno, whose superiors gradually get killed off one by one, forcing him to take control. Instead, this Rashomon-inspired drama explores what it takes to act honorably under the most trying circumstances imaginable. The ending of this grim war drama is all tension. Also excluded are films that blur genres, like the military science fiction of Starship Troopers and Aliens (even if the latter does have a lot to say about the Vietnam War). What are your thoughts on the top 10 Korean War movies? Kwai contains all of the above, but it feels remarkably intimate thanks to its focus on a handful of characters played by Sessue Hayakawa, William Holden, Alec Guinness, and others. Angela Lansbury, R While an official end to the war won’t occur till nearer the end of the year, I say we start celebrating now by looking back at the films about the devastating conflict. Labiche doesn’t care for art, but he comes to recognize what the stolen treasures mean for a country struggling to hold on to its soul. Tae Guk Gi uses the divide that separates the brothers to mirror the divide the war cut between nations and families. During the Korean War peace talks, U.S. troops fight to retake a hill from the Communist Chinese forces. True true. Michael O'Shea, With updated release dates where available. and the even better The Steel Helmet. Donald Sutherland, | (The extended versions released in 2001 and 2019 include even more episodes, including a French plantation sequence that provides an even stronger connection to the colonialism of Conrad’s book and the colonialist roots of the war.). They are so different from one another, but their messages are similar. | In the process, he seems to summon war to his village, first in the form of a partisan militia who enlists him to fight the German invaders, then in the form of the Germans themselves, who arrive not just as conquerors but as gleeful sadists with no regard for human life. (On the occasion of the death of R. Lee Ermey, the real-life drill instructor who played the same in Full Metal Jacket, Swofford offered a remembrance in the New York Times with the headline “Full Metal Jacket Seduced My Generation and Sent Us to War.”). Asked why there’s little killing in his films, Truffaut replied, “I find that violence is very ambiguous in movies. 2015’s The Long Way Home is one of these movies. Not only is it a lovely romance, it’s also an important social commentary on a problem faced by service members at that time; it was illegal for American GIs to marry Japanese women during the war, much less fly them back to the states. Speaking to Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribune in 1973, Francois Truffaut made an observation that’s cast a shadow over war movies ever since, even those seemingly opposed to war. He had first tried to film The Big Red One in the 1950s but couldn’t make it happen. Hyeong-jin Kong, Votes: The actor’s company Outlier Society will produce a film based on the DC superhero. His Mohicans plays like the work of a director trying to figure out what in all those images of combat and doomed love moved him so much then and how he could use his own voice to have the same effect on others. Coppola famously had a difficult time making the film, so difficult that his experiences inspired the great making-of doc Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse. endears us to the characters and makes us cry when they’re killed. For example, some films claim to be antiwar, but I don’t think I’ve really seen an antiwar film. | Winner of short subject awards at Cannes and the Oscars, French director Robert Enrico’s adaptation of an Ambrose Bierce story offers a succinct, haunting depiction of a second chance that’s not what it first appears. Directors: It stars veteran actors Robert Ryan and Aldo Ray as Lt. Benson and Sergeant Montana, respectively. A judge has now decided that Harris will remain in jail until trial. | The first Hollywood film about the Gulf War, the Edward Zwick–directed Courage Under Fire was also one of the first to address the then-hot-button issue of women in combat. They fall in love, get married, and have a child — at which point Max learns that Marianne might not be who she seems. It’s a stark, haunting depiction of innocence lost that’s built around unblinking re-creations of World War II atrocities. David O. Russell’s Three Kings begins as a darkly comic heist film in which three soldiers (George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, and Ice Cube) try to make an easy score in the chaos at the end of the Persian Gulf War. The plot is simple — the surgeons and nurses of MASH  4077 use humor to cope with their bloody duty. Rereleased in France in 1946, the film didn’t sit as well with many French critics, who found its depiction of connections between French and German officers and its pacifist attitude out of step with the times. The ideal to which many subsequent star-packed World War II films aspired, John Sturges’s The Great Escape fills a German POW camp with James Garner, Richard Attenborough, Charles Bronson, Donald Pleasence, James Coburn, and, most memorable of all, Steve McQueen as allied prisoners determined to break out. While an official end to the war won't occur till near the end of the year most likely, let's start celebrating now by looking back at the films about the devastating conflict. Its realization looked increasingly less likely as the years went on, but the always intrepid Fuller persisted. Even those who survive war end up hollowed out on the inside, one way or another. 102 min Samuel Fuller Jürgen Prochnow stars as the experienced and disillusioned unnamed captain whose sense of military duty and commitment to his men overwhelms open distaste for Hitler, Nazism, and the execution of the war. Over the course of the film, Flyora’s face becomes a map of trauma (an effect the then-13-year-old Kravchenko achieved partly through hypnotism). Something I hope people will most appreciate about this film is that it isn’t your typical war hero movie — it really lets the worst of war dangle in front of the audience like a corpse hanging from a tree. The end of the 20th century stirred a great deal of reflection about what happened in the middle of it, particularly during World War II. Used to working on small budgets, he barely left Israel to create a war-spanning story that follows a 1st Infantry squad from North Africa, through Italy, D-Day, and finally to a Czech concentration camp. But it’s also the story of one man’s tragic end and of his horrifying rush of reflection and regret. Meanwhile, at home, their lives mirror the unsettled, distrustful wartime atmosphere in which no place feels safe and nothing can be taken at face value. Co-written by Edmund H. North and Francis Ford Coppola, Franklin J. Schaffner’s epic-scaled biopic focuses on Patton’s World War II experience. Stars: 1.” But it wasn’t just Germany that came to find the film troublesome. It’s funny and audacious, but also shot through with a sense of sadness and loss, thanks in large part to Mélanie Laurent’s turn as the sole survivor of an opening scene in which Landa hunts for a Jewish family in hiding.