[3] December 5, 2012
Miracle Mile [4] (1988) is about the last 24 hours of life on Earth. A nifty blend of conflicting moods, there’s terrific suspense and unexpected bursts of snarky humor set against an apocalyptic background.
[3] Miracle Mile [4] (1988) is about the last 24 hours of life on Earth. A nifty blend of conflicting moods, there’s terrific suspense and unexpected bursts of snarky humor set against an apocalyptic background.
[6] Some of the science on display in When Worlds Collide [7] looks suspect today... but then we’ve had 60 years of advancement since the film was made. What still rings true are the ways in which humans react.
[9] Every year seems to bring another filmic variation on Dickens’ immortal A Christmas Carol [10]. But none of them has succeeded in surpassing the 61-year-old British version starring Alastair Sim.
[12] Defiance [13] could easily have been just a story about killing and revenge. But this based-on-fact effort is also about something even more challenging – building a society more or less from scratch.
[15] Thrilling, complex and troubling, Munich [16] is one of the great films of Steven Spielberg's maturity. Lurking deep inside its white-knuckle action is an inescapable conundrum: What if the persecuted become persecutors?
Links:
[1] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/Film+Blog/feed
[2] http://drupal.org/node/11816
[3] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/program-notes-miracle-mile-1988
[4] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097889/
[5] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/18975#comment-form
[6] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/program-notes-when-worlds-collide-1951
[7] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=author:%22Barbara+Rush%22+title:%22When+Worlds+Collide%22
[8] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/program-notes-when-worlds-collide-1951#comments
[9] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/program-notes-christmas-carol-1951
[10] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=author:%22Alastair+Sim%22+title:%22Christmas+Carol%22
[11] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/program-notes-christmas-carol-1951#comments
[12] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/program-notes-defiance-2008
[13] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=author:%22Daniel+Craig%22+title:%22Defiance%22
[14] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/18854#comment-form
[15] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/program-notes-munich-2005
[16] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=author:%22Steven+Spielberg%22+title:%22Munich%22
[17] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/18839#comment-form
[18] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314
[19] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314?page=8
[20] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314?page=5
[21] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314?page=6
[22] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314?page=7
[23] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314?page=10
[24] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314?page=11
[25] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314?page=12
[26] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314?page=13
[27] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314?page=41