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Thank you for your article on the movie Black Hawk Down [CINEMA, Dec. 17]. Even though I consider myself an antiwar, liberal, all-you-need-is-love woman bored to tears by war movies, I've been eagerly awaiting this film ever since reading Mark Bowden's brilliant book of the same title. I hope every American will look beyond the labels "war movie" and "failed mission" and see the moving story about heroes willing to give their lives for their country, humanity and ideals that most Americans, including myself, give only lip service to. KARIN ANDERSON Marina...
...veteran with a B.A. in film, I must take exception to an omission from TIME's list of "The Greatest Combat Films of All Time" [CINEMA, Dec. 17]. In my opinion, the very best and still the most relevant combat film ever made was Michael Cimino's The Deer Hunter (1978), which featured heroic performances by Robert De Niro and Christopher Walken. The film won the Academy Award for Best Picture, Cimino earned an Oscar as Best Director, and Walken got one for Best Supporting Actor. REIN J. VANDERZEE JR. San Antonio, Texas...
...playing a man who discovers a secret brew that makes him invisible. Mr. X could sit in on conspiracies and expose the bad guys to make the world a better place. Years later, Ashok Kumar said to me: "In the worst moment of pain, man needs a dream. Cinema should do the job of a good dream." I was already a filmmaker by then, and he had it right. Kumar gave India very sweet dreams...
...Black Hawk Down Ridley Scott's harrowing replay of a 1993 Somalian debacle for U.S. troops is pure cinema in action. In nearly two hours of relentless warfare (think of Saving Private Ryan without the slow bits), it shows how a director can marshal images and sounds, biography and geography, to create emotion pictures. With Gladiator, Hannibal and now this ultimate war movie, Ridley's on a roll...