Vietnam War
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The Beach (2000) – Danny Boyle
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Great it´d be if its understandably-wrapped-in-commercial-crap internal jungle-fever madness would outgrow the bills to pay for this watered down effort.
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Across the Universe (2007) – Julie Taymor
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Unannounced musical pushing Dear Patience for the trailer-allergic expecting pure dialog. It sugar-shocks with its spiral-singing flopping in steady but annoying beauty.
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Taxi Driver (1976) – Martin Scorsese
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“Morbid self-attention” won’t get you to revenge the world against what’s wrongly dark and seldom slightly right. “Don‘t you want to make it, mister?”
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Rushmore (1998) – Wes Anderson
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Strongly-subtle dark comedy that can for days on end make one consistently laugh out loud at punch-line silences that stitch to the mind.
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The Weight of Memory (March 1973 – Onward) The Vietnam War: 01×10 – Kenn Burns & Lynn Novack
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The White Christmas nightmare ending of a 30-year war that ironically led to Vietnam´s own “Vietnam”—and the final episode of this historical masterpiece.
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A Disrespectful Loyalty (May 1970-March 1973) The Vietnam War (2017): 01×09 – Kenn Burns & Lynn Novick
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Oft-repeated bravery tends to lose its influence, but sacrificing one’s blood-earned trophies while Death keeps girding the biggest nothing in history does not.
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The History of the World (April 1969-May 1970) The Vietnam War (2017): 01×08 – Kenn Burns & Lynn Novick
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Life preservation bears the brunt of an honor that stutters. All parents must be killed in order to break free from a Vietnamised Nixonian low.
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The Veneer of Civilization (June 1968-May 1969) The Vietnam War (2017): 01×07 – Kenn Burns & Lynn Novick
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The shit-sandwich has gotten big enough to feed everyone not hungry twice—but Nixon, Kissinger and the Saigon cowboys are all doing just fine.
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Things Fall Apart (January-June 1969) The Vietnam War (2017): 01×06 – Kenn Burns & Lynn Novick
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Got offended by Tet, got let down by Lyndon, got sick from a reality that cannot be smelled through television…and now Dick is coming.
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This is What We Do (July-December 1967)The Vietnam War (2017): 01×05 – Kenn Burns & Lynn Novick
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A war with no front is a body-count war that can only be won after the crossover point of dehumanization that Stalin-statistics promise.
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Resolve (January 1966-June 1967) The Vietnam War (2017): 01×04 – Kenn Burns & Lynn Novick
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There is no point in wondering if your son has fallen face down in the bony lunar dust or not: they will let you know.
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The River Styx (January 1964-December 1965) The Vietnam War (2017): 01×03 – Kenn Burns & Lynn Novick
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You´ll get lots more of this coup shit because reelection is the root of all evil in your Kennedy-less rolling thunder of a world.
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In Country (1989) – Norman Jewison
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You can´t come back from a raw deal that was mainlined to you and got you grief-infected for life and just forget about it.
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Dispatches (1977) – Michael Herr
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A novel that should be “read” in Braille with eyes closed while in nature to virtually realize what a year in-country does to you.
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Rolling Thunder (1977) – John Flynn
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Founding father of the Vietnam-Vet-Vendetta genre that´s still vein-popping while advocating separation of mind and body when it comes to romancing pain.
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Riding the Tiger (1961-1963) The Vietnam War (2017): 01×02 – Kenn Burns & Lynn Novick
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Doc-decker Kenn and his proficient cut-crew vigorously but slow-motionly zoomIng in and out of the Burning lotus position that made everyone uncomfortable.
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Déjà-Vu (1858-1961) The Vietnam War (2017): 01×01 – Kenn Burns & Lynn Novick
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Eloquently gelatinized historical coverage of a century of colonizing French-oppression of the Vietnamese people—before American military advisors started to stack up like dominos.
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The Vietnam War (2017) – Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross
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Unpretentious accompaniment piece of mature modern-minimalism that carries itself with the heaviest of solemnities while propelling a rice paddy of 2000-yard-stare flashbacks.
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Hamburger Hill (1987) – John Irvin
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By far the goriest, most visually grounding of the Revival-wave of vet-approved Vietnam war films that muddied the Clearwater of the late Eighties.
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Let It Bleed (1969) – The Rolling Stones
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A fine album about violence, anxiety and fear that somehow feels very relaxing to listen to. Perfect tunes from what is basically an American band.
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Born the Fourth of July (1989) – Oliver Stone
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An important story about disillusionment prevented from further skipping generations thanks to putting resources and creative control into the hands of those who lived it.
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Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker´s Apocalypse (1991) – Fax Bah
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Eleanor Coppola´s heart is really where this film-of-a-film is coming from. It domestically follows her husband´s dive into the spreading jungle darkness.
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Apocalypse Now (1979) – Francis Ford Coppola
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Far-out anti-war/pro-drugs cinematic experience that hits its heart-target as a perfect Parthian shot taken while exiting the dark 1970’s jungle.
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Hearts and Minds (1974) – Peter Davies
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A sweaty collage of participant-perspectives circling down the drain of an exhausted conflict that Americans so tip-of-the-iceberg-ly deemed too long.
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Full Metal Jacket (1987) – Stanley Kubrick
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A two-parter prequel to “Birdy” (1984) following the character’s experience in the millitary from boot camp to combat under the name of private Joker.
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Quarry (2016– ) – Michael D. Fuller, Graham Gordy
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No one will object to the over-tantalization of characters while swimming the oppressive swamps of an ill-sense of memory that is rage-cursed.
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First Kill (2001) – Coco Schrijber
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The terrible intrusion of war shared and explained by the time-anchored hearts & minds of interviewees who are displaying acute withdrawal symptoms on camera.
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The Deer Hunter (1978) – Michael Cimino
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Haunting downer that sinks deep into disillusionment, betrayal and post traumatic spleen-depression by Russian rouletting us between their past and present like prison toys.