Been on a history tear lately and in brief.
DRESDEN--The German miniseries about the infamous bombing in 1945 was surprisingly disapointing with an over long and involved forbidden romance between a good german girl and a shot down British bomber pilot and even more surprisingly unimpressive Dresden Bombing and firestorm. It is like they spent all the money on the love glop and ran out just when the bombs started to drop.
PARTITION--a really excellent--as in David Lean level epic about the creation of Pakistan and the forbidden love between a Sikh man and a Moslem woman that ends badly due to Moslem tendencies towards intolerance. Stars Neve Campbell as an Englishwoman who tries to help. Best film in this post.
CHARLIE WILSON'S WAR--a very good if incredibly crude film with Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts about a Democrat congressman who resolves to help the Afghan people throw off the yoke of the Evil Communist empire. Except for the complete absence of Ronald Reagan whom apparently had nothing to do with fighting the Cold War in the 80s, this is quite a good film and history lession. Also has a cast of some of the hottest babes ever to grace a film about the fight against the red menace. Mike Nicholls--the director is apparently a rump man.
PRINCES IN THE TOWER--remember in THE TOWER OF LONDON when Basil Rathbone orders Boris Karloff to kill his two nephews--one of which is Donnie Dunnigan? This is an attempt to solve the "mystery" of the mysterious crime.(It was Richard the Third or if one prefers Vincent Price, Lawrence Olivier, Ian Holm, Patrick Troughton, Basil Rathbone and Boris Karloff) Could have been a contender but succumbs to unwarranted crudity, silly political correctness(feminism in the most inappropriate of places) and just dopiness near the end
DRESDEN--The German miniseries about the infamous bombing in 1945 was surprisingly disapointing with an over long and involved forbidden romance between a good german girl and a shot down British bomber pilot and even more surprisingly unimpressive Dresden Bombing and firestorm. It is like they spent all the money on the love glop and ran out just when the bombs started to drop.
PARTITION--a really excellent--as in David Lean level epic about the creation of Pakistan and the forbidden love between a Sikh man and a Moslem woman that ends badly due to Moslem tendencies towards intolerance. Stars Neve Campbell as an Englishwoman who tries to help. Best film in this post.
CHARLIE WILSON'S WAR--a very good if incredibly crude film with Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts about a Democrat congressman who resolves to help the Afghan people throw off the yoke of the Evil Communist empire. Except for the complete absence of Ronald Reagan whom apparently had nothing to do with fighting the Cold War in the 80s, this is quite a good film and history lession. Also has a cast of some of the hottest babes ever to grace a film about the fight against the red menace. Mike Nicholls--the director is apparently a rump man.
PRINCES IN THE TOWER--remember in THE TOWER OF LONDON when Basil Rathbone orders Boris Karloff to kill his two nephews--one of which is Donnie Dunnigan? This is an attempt to solve the "mystery" of the mysterious crime.(It was Richard the Third or if one prefers Vincent Price, Lawrence Olivier, Ian Holm, Patrick Troughton, Basil Rathbone and Boris Karloff) Could have been a contender but succumbs to unwarranted crudity, silly political correctness(feminism in the most inappropriate of places) and just dopiness near the end
