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The Haunting of Julia 1977
Mia Farrow is the angel of death. Shimmering beneath that child-like face and those delicate blue eyes are the contours of a skull. In Full Circle (the original British title of The Haunting of Julia), Farrow’s Julia Lofting attempts to recover from her daughter’s accidental death and her husband’s abusive treatment by doing what George C. Scott’s John Russell would do several years later in The Changeling: occupy a baroquely furnished home with an atrocity in its past as a…
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Oppenheimer 2023
Biopics in the late 1930s always had some disingenuously passing reference to a briefly appearing character who would prove to be historically significant beyond the scope of the film. "What is the name of that young soldier?" "I don't know. I think I heard someone refer to him as... NAPOLEON!" (Orchestral sting.) In Oppenheimer, Nolan makes reference to a young upstart from Massachusetts who voted against Strauss's appointment to Eisenhower's cabinet. His name is... JOHN F. KENNEDY. It telegraphs that…
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Sangam 1964
No mention is made of China, but Raj Kapoor plays a Canberra bomber pilot in the Indian Air Force who volunteers for a mission to airdrop supplies from a Dakota cargo plane over surrounded Indian troops in a Himalayan valley during the 1962 Sino-Indian War. The conflict was essentially a border dispute over a stretch of land east of Bhutan, but it also followed the Tibetan Uprising in 1959, during which India granted asylum to the Dalai Lama, an action…
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Closeness 2017
I won't bury the grisly lede: some Chechen rebel snuff will sneak up on you if you aren't forewarned. It shows up on a television set several characters watch, and it is absolutely appalling. If you refuse to watch actual captured Russian soldiers from the First Chechen War begging for their lives and being slaughtered graphically on video—then skip the television segment. It's difficult to justify the presence of this footage in any context, except as a testament to the…
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