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Despite the United States actions in the Gulf, when we think of the military, we think of the elderly vets of WWII or of the 40-somethings who returned from Vietnam. Even on Veterans Day, if we think of veterans at all, we don't envision members of the present armed forces, many of whom have seen conflict...
...American landscape printed in the September issue of Atlantic Monthly, James Howard Kunstler cites zoning codes as the source for our current civic discontent. Originally, zoning was a response to industrialization, a determination by the inhabitants of a town that they would not be overwhelmed by immense factories. After WWII, zoning codes became even more restrictive so as to separate most aspects of life from each other. Today, Kunstler says, "What zoning produces is suburban sprawl, which must be understood as the product of a particular set of instructions.... [This] model of the human habitat dictated by zoning...
...WWII! The Good War. The war. The bigger, better sequel to the War to End All Wars. With a unified national will to defeat the Axis, and Broadway, Hollywood and Tin Pan Alley operating at full throttle, every G.I. could hit the beach with a song in his backpack. Terrific songs, many of them. They still sound swell today, and they even look good on the bandbox stage of Manhattan's Blue Angel Supper Club in a larkish but poignant revue called Swingtime Canteen, directed by Kenneth Elliott...
Levy and co-director Alain Ferrari included footage documenting the most gruesome, tragic and horrifying events of the war. Scenes from concentration camps, the morgue, the hospital, the aftermath of a massacre on the streets of Sarajevo, are, as Levy reminds, eerily reminiscent of scenes from WWII. Watching this footage is moving and affecting, but the impact is almost completely emotional. "Bosna!" fails to place the complex war in a political context outside of its clear agenda...
Were this just a story of disillusionment, of a woman's dreams shattered by the harsh realities of post-WWII Italy, "Mamma Roma" would be just another neo-realist film. Part of Pasolini's genius lies in his inability to rest in any one school or style. He has too much to say to remain only in the neo-realist genre, the genre most suited to his Marxist leanings. The film often seems torn between its clear Marxist stance and its religious overtones, as its many artistic influences and ideas blend together to create an omnipresent tension. Pasolini creates...