Episode 137: Anti (?) War Movies
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English - May 26, 2023 19:55 - 1 hour - 134 MB - ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsSociety & Culture Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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François Truffaut famously said in an interview with Gene Siskel that "I don't think I've really seen an antiwar film. Every film about war ends up being pro-war." What does it mean for a film to be "anti-war?" Is it true that to enshrine something to film is to ennoble it? We dig into the idea of anti-war cinema with the new adaptation of All Quiet on the Western Front (2022, dir. Edward Berger) and the perennial classic Apocalypse Now (1979, dir. Francis Ford Coppola).