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“I dedicate this award to the thousands of people all over the world who, like me, come back from war safe and sound,” said Israeli war veteran and (first-time) filmmaker Samuel Maoz (above, lower photo) upon receiving the Golden Lion for his graphically violent war drama Lebanon at the 2009 Venice Film Festival. “Apparently they are fine, they work, get married, have children. But inside [...]

Lew Ayres and Louis Wolheim in All Quiet on the Western Front The silent version of the best picture Academy Award winner All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), in my view the greatest war movie ever made, will be screened at New York City’s Film Forum on Monday, August 3. Showtimes are at 3:20, 6:50, and 9:20. Having been restored and preserved by the [...]

"German filmmakers have tackled the touchy subject of whether the Allied firebombing of Dresden at the end of World War Two was a ‘war crime’ with a carefully balanced melodrama that got its worldwide premiere on Monday. "Showing the German point of view of anything in World War Two is always likely to cause a stir — and that’s precisely what the makers of Dresden [...]

"It is rabidly anti-American, and it is the biggest draw in town." That’s the headline of Sarah Rainsford’s BBC article on the Turkish blockbuster Valley of the Wolves – Iraq, directed by Serdar Akar, and adapted from a successful local TV series by Bahadir Ozdener. In Valley of the Wolves, Turks are shining heroes whereas Americans firebomb mosques, execute innocents, and deal in organ trafficking. [...]