Posted on September 8, 2009 by cindyli106
Hangmen Also Die is a compelling drama about operations by a Czech resistance network during the Second World War. Like many other American films that were made during the war, Hangmen Also Die portrays the German Secret State Police (Gestapo) as reassuringly incompetent and corrupt. The resistance group, on the other hand, is admirably resilient [...]
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Posted on August 5, 2009 by cindyli106
The Long Night, Anatole Litvak, director (1947) DVD.
The Long Night, a classic work of film noir, tells the story of Joe Adams (Henry Fonda), a veteran, a blue collar worker, and then, suddenly, a suspected murderer barricaded in his room. The film, a remake of the French classic Le jour se lève (1939), is distinctive [...]
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Posted on April 3, 2008 by patrickgavin
Superbad. DVD-ROM. Columbia Pictures, 2007.
Described by students variously as “hilarious” and “really dumb, but funny,” Superbad is a morality tale about young adults struggling to make principled decisions in a society rife with hypocrisy and superficiality. One character-Fogell, played by Christopher Mintz-Plasse-attempts to achieve coolness by creating the new identity of McLovin (based on [...]
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