If you read a negative review of this film, it may have been penned by a descendant of a Confederate soldier. The narrative since Appomattox, for the South, is to glorify the righteousness of their evil cause. And for over 160 years, they've been trying to erase this embarrassment to that narrative. Not all southerners were seditious traitors. As for the film. If you like history, you'll like it. If not, you probably won't. But you will learn about a man who is slowly being erased from history.
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Becoming Jane 2007
While this was a beautifully shot film, it really didn't do much for me. Maybe it was the fact that Anne Hathaway seemed ill suited for the role, or it just came across as too modern an approach to telling a story that should have been much more prim. I found it very predictable and never really became invested in either of the two lead characters or their romance. I guess if you are into Miss Austen's novels, then this…
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A Great Day in Harlem 1994
I learned more about jazz history in just one hour of this documentary, than in all 19 hours of Ken Burns' bloated and pontificating film on the same subject. The director, Jean Bach, who just passed away the other day at the ripe old age of 94, was a jazz fanatic and celebrated historian of this truly American art form. This was her first film, which documents one of the most famous photographs in history, the gathering of 57 of…
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