Advantages: Stunning aerial sequences, great score, entertaining account Disadvantages: Too many cooks
The 1969 all-star big budget extravaganza 'The Battle of Britain' is recently arrived to DVD, albeit on region 1 only for the moment. Never fear though, it's an MGM release, and region 2 releases are never too far behind.
It's arrival on DVD is extremely welcome, as a buffed up widescreen print finally allows one to be totally smitten with the flying sequences. Presented as intended, and making full use of the scope process, the air battles are ... ...Hamilton (Goldfinger, The Ipcress File) brings the same effortless flow to the film that he used succesfully in his 1964 Bond outing. In recounting the heroic efforts of both the RAF and the Luftwaffe, he never lets the action overwhelm the story, while equally he never lets historical fact bog down a 133 minute production. Wilfred Greatorex and James Kennaway have assembled a mostly hit but sometimes miss screenplay, often bending the truth and ...
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Advantages: brilliant necessary truth telling Disadvantages: the truth hurts!
it's both utterly harrowing to watch this, but it is also a beautifully exact record and film. the film makers let the people, landscape, mad race haters speak for themselves, they approach a very wide range of people very tentatively usually allowing us to encounter them as they are, and want to present themselves and gradually introduce more contentious things to the conversation, often with horrifying results. this film is the twin of Lanzman's ... ...historical film about a unique horror that happened decades earlier. This is a unique horror that is decades long and ongoing; placades all over Israel screaming Arabs Go/Out/Expel/Transfer. Warning! The views expressed by Israeli officials soldiers etc. in this film are truly shocking, the hypocrasy grotesque, the echo in the mouths of Presidents and Prime MInisters a matter of the deepest shame -on all of us. You must see this film, without hesitation: ...
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