I watched Katyn only the previous night and watching another movie about something that I had barely any knowledge about made me certain that there are never enough movies around the world wars. In that way I think 9/11 and the “War Against Terrorism” are not as diverse even though there are already 9/11 literature [...]
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PIFF Movie Review: Katyn
In Terry George’s Hotel Rwanda journalist Jack Daglish tells Paul, “I think if people see this footage they’ll say, ‘Oh my God that’s horrible!’ and then go on eating their dinners.” During the Katyn Massacre, that is what the whole world did. On the night that I watched Andrzej Wajda’s Katyn, after the movie ended [...]
PIFF Movie Review: Divorzio all’italiana
Ferdinando Cefalù is a well-read graduate born in an aristocratic family and unhappily married to an annoying romantic. He would have grown accustomed to his life much like his father, being satisfied with the occasional grasp of the maid’s derriere, but he lays his eyes on young Angela. Angela is a distant cousin who is [...]
Movie Review: Der Untergang
Traudl Junge of Munich became the secretary of Adolf Hitler in 1942. She recounts the Führer’s final days (20th April to 30th April of 1945) in his Berlin bunker at the end of World War Two. The Führer is shown as a man close (or beyond) to breakdown. Blinded by his passions and his beliefs, [...]