Better than AFI’s Top 100: Un Certain Regard

(For an introduction to the project and an index of other entries in the series, click here. For a list of more than 800 films which I considered for the top 450 and my eligibility qualifications, click here. And for a way to vote on what you think the top 100 American narrative fiction feature films are, click here.… Read More Better than AFI’s Top 100: Un Certain Regard

June 18, 2017March 12, 2021 Tim2 Comments

Five Came Back (2017)

Dir. Laurent Bouzereau. I’ve spent some time thinking about what made Five Came Back so effective as a lens to view World War II, and at first I thought it was the subject matter. Entering this documentary and having little more prior knowledge than some vague understanding of John Ford and Frank Capra’s World War II service, I assumed that… Read More Five Came Back (2017)

April 13, 2017July 27, 2018 TimLeave a comment

Seeing Things Secondhand

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Better than AFI’s Top 100: Un Certain Regard

Five Came Back (2017)