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...propelling him into the White House eight years later. This was Eisenhower's invasion, the one he had planned and argued for and believed in wholeheartedly. He meant every word of the order of the day he addressed to the servicemen he was sending into Hitler's Festung Europa: "Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Forces: You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade toward which we have striven these many months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: D-Day: IKE'S INVASION | 6/6/1994 | See Source »

...Holocaust is such an event. It is a topic -- the systematic destruction of European Jewry under Nazism -- that American movies have taken up gingerly, and only occasionally. It has been left mostly to the documentarians and to Europeans like Agnieszka Holland, who made the devastating Europa, Europa. But these are art-house films with small audiences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Heart of Darkness | 12/13/1993 | See Source »

Gabay compensates for Harvard's apparent social deficiencies by shedding his government concentrator-council president-nice guy from Quincy image and hitting the Boston club scene a few nights a month. "I like Avalon and Venus," he says. "Sometimes, once in a while, we'll try Europa...

Author: By Tara H. Arden-smith, | Title: GABAY STEPS OUT OF BEYS' SHADOW | 11/8/1993 | See Source »

Holland does not cloak that riddle as well as she might, and her variation on the Martin Guerre (or Sommersby) theme is predictable. But as she showed in last year's Europa, Europa, she also has a way of administering jolts from the blue that usefully subvert our narrative and moral expectations. The value of this bleak film, which says that the family, like any other institution, requires agreed-upon fictions to sustain itself, derives from that talent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Disorder And Early Sorrow | 3/8/1993 | See Source »

...favor of the treaty on European unity had once been a foregone conclusion, emerged from the tempest in a shaken and vengeful mood, facing a political crisis. Europeans elsewhere were praying that what they experienced was the storm before the calm. But nobody was foreseeing that the good ship Europa would reach safe haven anytime soon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Europe's Currency | 9/28/1992 | See Source »

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