Americans have perpetuated a mythic version of the past that never even approximated reality and today has become downright malignant.
By Andrew Bacevich Apr 30, 2009
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A tender porn-theater family saga, with boils; a sexy ghost story from Macedonia; Al Pacino's junkie breakthrough; and the story of World War II heroine Hannah Senesh.
By Andrew O'Hehir
January 31, 2009
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French screen legend Jeanne Moreau will make you weep in Israeli director Amos Gitai's breathtaking and unconventional "One Day You'll Understand."
By Andrew O'Hehir
November 1, 2008
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When President Johnson asked that question about John McCain's father, Adm. Jack McCain, the answer he got was not flattering. But McCain got a promotion from LBJ anyway.
By Tom Brune
October 29, 2008
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Mocked on initial release and long unavailable, Max Ophüls' wide-screen spectacle "Lola Montès" returns in a lustrous restoration. So what's the big deal?
By Andrew O'Hehir
October 10, 2008
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Pasolini's "Salò" blends fascism, de Sade and upscale art cinema into the most notorious film in the medium's history. Watch it at home!
By Andrew O'Hehir
October 8, 2008
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The cinema icon talks about reshaping American mythology with his WWII epic, "Miracle at St. Anna," and what Hollywood would look like if he were in charge.
By James Hannaham
September 25, 2008
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I used to think America was just weird; now it's feeling a lot like 1932.
By Cary Tennis
September 10, 2008
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Claude Miller's wrenching "A Secret" distills the French nation's Nazi-era guilt into one family's incredible-but-true wartime story.
By Andrew O'Hehir
September 5, 2008
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Czech master Jirí Menzel's black comedy about a lovable innocent turned Nazi collaborator is a work of nettlesome genius. Will anybody notice?
By Andrew O'Hehir
August 29, 2008
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Carl Dreyer's erotic witch-hunt drama "Day of Wrath," made in Nazi-occupied Denmark, resurfaces with shattering clarity after a digital restoration.
By Andrew O'Hehir
August 26, 2008
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Eager to catch the ultraviolent WWII shootout "Inglorious Bastards," loaded with blaxploitation beefcake and naked chicks? Come on over!
By Andrew O'Hehir
August 13, 2008
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How Charlie Chaplin's poisonously dark "Monsieur Verdoux" drove the audience away -- and was embraced by critics and filmmakers as a masterpiece.
By Andrew O'Hehir
June 12, 2008
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A British paper lures Eastwood and Lee into an unfortunate feud. Here's the real question: Which of their films should the other one have made?
By Andrew O'Hehir
June 11, 2008
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Hot she-wolves of the SS, rescued from the memory hole. Also: Buddhism for murderers, housewife seeks Asian stud and more.
By Andrew O'Hehir
April 11, 2008
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Kurt Vonnegut's new posthumous collection reveals the seeds of a modern masterpiece.
By Steve Almond
April 7, 2008
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A haunting new alternative history imagines an invading German army living alongside the natives in rural Wales.
By Laura Miller
March 18, 2008
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"Suite Française" made her a posthumous literary sensation. But newly published work raises the question: Was Némirovsky a Jewish anti-Semite?
By Allen Barra
February 6, 2008
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Gone are the days when stern words by a U.S. president could prevent rash action by an errant foreign leader like Musharraf.
By Sidney Blumenthal
November 8, 2007
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Janet Malcolm's search for the real Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas exposes some hard truths about the duo and biography itself.
By Christine Smallwood
September 27, 2007
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Ken Burns makes deeply emotional films that pluck America's chords of memory. In the case of World War II, this approach feels absolutely right.
By Gary Kamiya
September 25, 2007
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How suggestible are you? CBS's "Kid Nation," NBC's "Bionic Woman" and ABC's "Private Practice" aim to play you like a fiddle.
By Heather Havrilesky
September 23, 2007
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The filmmaker behind "White Light Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki" shares the survivors' stories he explores in his devastating documentary. An interview and podcast.
By Andrew O'Hehir
August 6, 2007
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What can I do to realize my fantasies? Do I have any free will at all?
By Cary Tennis
April 19, 2007
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A New Zealand man snaps pictures of women in the bathroom, breast-feeding may help prevent cancer, and comfort women did, indeed, exist.
By Catherine Price
April 17, 2007
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