Michael Cimino, 1976.
On Wikipedia: The Deer Hunter
(PSJ, 3/26/2020)
[Fun fact: One of the supporting actors in this film was an Oberlin alum, and was the real-life partner of Meryl Streep. (JTS, 3/26/2020)]
Showing posts with label Vietnam War. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vietnam War. Show all posts
Thursday, March 26, 2020
The Deer Hunter
Michael Cimino, 1976.
On Wikipedia: The Deer Hunter
(PSJ, 3/26/2020)
[Fun fact: One of the supporting actors in this film was an Oberlin alum, and was the real-life partner of Meryl Streep. (JTS, 3/26/2020)]
Wednesday, March 25, 2020
Jacob's Ladder
Adrian Lyne, 1990.
Zhuangzi dreamt he was a butterfly and after waking felt or feigned uncertainty about whether he might be a butterfly dreaming of being a man; in Jacob's Ladder a Vietnam veteran has become unable to tell which of the plausible and internally-consistent worlds he experiences is real, and which is something else. Psychological horror is at its most masterful when the hallucinations of terrifying abominations (and even the possibility that they aren’t hallucinations…) aren’t the most disturbing part of the story.
On Wikipedia: Jacob's Ladder
(JTS, 3/24/2020)
Apocalypse Now
Francis Ford Coppola, 1979.
On Wikipedia: Apocalypse Now
(JTS, 3/24/2020)
[I have a memory of watching this with JTS and WCS at the home of PSJ, together with a "The Making of . . . " documentary called "Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse" (JTS3, 3/26/2020)]
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