Word: hiroshima
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...finest and most provocative French films of the past 20 years: Truffaut's Jules and Jim and The Wild Child; Godard's Les Carabiniers; and Rossellini's The Rise of Louis XIV. The slide show has been assembled by Alain Resnais, director of such films as Hiroshima Mon Amour, Last Year at Marienbad and La Guerre Est Finie. Today's class will be a bit longer than usual, but I believe you will find the experience entertaining as well as instructive...
...Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August of 1945 are limited nuclear war. It is limited because the United States at the time has only a few atom bombs. Also, it has a monopoly. Neither condition any longer persists. Americans need to reread John Hersey's Hiroshima. Anyone who calls for limited nuclear war is a madman. He must be seized and placed under heavy guard in a ward for the criminally insane. Henry Ratliff
...radio exchange would have been ludicrous had it not taken place between two members of an Air Force team searching frantically for a nine-megaton warhead, 450 times the yield of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. The warhead was blown from the Titan II missile that exploded into flames near Damascus, Ark., two weeks ago. Despite pleas by nearby residents for reassurance that there was no danger of toxic fumes or radiation, the Air Force was determined to keep secret for a time the embarrassing fact that the warhead had been lost and then found a short time later...
When the volcano erupted last May 18 with the force of 500 Hiroshima-size atomic bombs, it blew away a cubic mile of earth, killed at least 31 people (another 32 are missing and presumed dead), destroyed or damaged 220,000 acres of timberland and created a monumental dredging job on three nearby rivers. In the four months since then, the mountain has been restive but not cataclysmic. There have been four major eruptions and numerous smaller ones, the most recent on Aug. 15. But Mount St. Helens lets no one rest, especially scientists...
Fuller's boys manage to turn up everywhere that's anywhere in the war--we're almost surprised that they don't show up on the outskirts of Hiroshima in August, 1945--but a sequence inside a Nazi concentration camp is certainly not a Hollywood war movie cliche. And while Fuller's treatment of the episode is painfully simplistic, it is also simply painful. Hamill discovering a room of ovens filled with human skeletons, Marvin silently baring his heart to a little boy whom he has just liberated--these are moments that we have seen in other films; but Fuller...