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Bleu Poster

13Dec11

I like how you included non-military war films (e.g. Au revoir les efants). To think that the civilian and military spheres of warfare are separate is to be anachronistic.

Marjorie

1Jun10

I think you should update this list and add Wajda's "Katyn."

Blue K, Custodian of the Cinema

7May10

Thank you, Sir Kenji. You deserve to be knighted for this!

you really like Lust, Caution that much? wonderful choices but you can easily alter Howl's Moving Castle with Nausicaa (though both are fabulous moving paintings) and the mediocre Black Book with the mighty Soldier of Orange. by the way, i adore Neighbors but...it's kind of a misfire for a list like that...of...heavily tragic themes :S i need to see Rivette's two-folder Joan of Arc epics and a Greek film could fit here as well ;) i had to edit due to my stubborness of correcting mistakes, haha. we don't have much of a war film production but one that definitely reaches the heights of Klimov and Keaton (whether it's satire or not) and i dare surpasses your favorite Patient (hehe) is Glory Sky by Kanellopoulos. i'll also keep an eye on the Yugoslav production i've missed since The Ambush is one of the seminal of our region as well as The Danube Waves!

Kenji

5May10

I'm not any more keen on Born on 4th July than Platoon really, it's a borderline inclusion with better films missing, but i think it's more critical of the US in Vietnam than is Platoon. Which Greek films should be included? If only more Greek films were available in UK

Dimitris Psachos

4May10

you really like Lust, Caution that much? wonderful choices but you can easily alter Nausicaa with Howl's Moving Castle and the mediocre Soldier of Orange with the mediocre Black Book. by the way, i adore Neighbors but...it's kind of a misfire for a list like that...of...heavily tragic themes :S Oliver Stone's film is a bit overrated but i believe you prefer it more to Platoon???? i need to see Rivette's two-folder Joan of Arc epics and a Greek film could fit here as well ;)

Franklinton Underground Cinema

12Mar10

"Shame" is an extraordinary film about civil war. A very different kind of war film.

Matt Kilgore

2Feb10

Hiroshima Mon Amour is probably the most notorious of "arty" films, but I do like it. Grand Illusion and the other top ten are really good too. Grave of the Fireflies needs to be higher though.

apursansar

4Dec09

Another great list, my personal favorite which I hope you´re also going to include is "When the Tenth Month Comes" about the final days of the Vietnam War.

gojira

15Nov09

Another solid list but I would add: 12 o'clock High directed by Henry King Battleground directed by William Wellman (battleround is the film that was used to force Louis Mayer out of MGM.)