May 31, 2007

Dispatch #186: Memorial Day "War, what is it good for?" Edition

In This Dispatch:
* What's New: Dorm, Wide Awake, Hawk is Dying and more.
* What We're Watching: Ergo Proxy, Butcher Boy, and Family Law.
* Explore: Amos Gitai and Mark Savage.

"War - what is it good for? Absolutely nothing," goes the Edwin Starr song. (Or, "The horror... the horror..." as Brando said.) But if nothing else, the subject of war has given us some superb films. Whether the setting is the Civil War, WWI, WWII, or the Vietnam War - not to mention both wars in Iraq - the tragedies found in each have proven ripe fodder for filmmakers through the years... read the rest in the GreenCine Dispatch Newsletter #186 >>

Posted by cphillips at May 31, 2007 12:17 PM