Word: kwai
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...never seen Apocalypse Now, Platoon or Bridge Over the River Kwai, then go see Paths to Glory and learn your lesson about the atrocities of warfare. For everyone else, you're better off renting Dr. Strangelove or A Clockwork Orange to get a taste of Kubric's true talent for innovation than wasting your time and money on this disappointing film...
Harvard Film Archive. "Two Mikes Don't Make A Wright" at 2, 5 and 7 p.m. "The Bridge on the River Kwai," a classic war drama that pits two proud enemies against each other in a battle of honor and survival at 8:30 p.m. Carpenter Center. $5 for students...
Harvard Film Archive. "Two Mikes Don't Make A Wright" at 2, 5 and 7 p.m. "The Bridge on the River Kwai...
...enthralls. It has the breadth and intelligence of the David Lean epics from whose plots it borrows: the juggling of passion and politics in Doctor Zhivago, the muddle of racial emotions in A Passage to India, the grandiose failure of colonial outsiders in The Bridge on the River Kwai and Lawrence of Arabia. But Indochine's vision is essentially feminine; its ample grief is that of a mother mourning her lost children in a land shifting and receding under her feet...