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Editor in Chief Bill ![Workbencher Fezian](boards/icons/workbencher.gif) | 07 Jun 2024 5:05 a.m. PST |
D-day has also drawn the attention of numerous filmmakers over the years. Here are ten of the best D-day films, each suggestive of the invasion's prominent place in international memory. Military: link |
79thPA ![Supporting Member of TMP Supporting Member of TMP](boards/icons/sp.gif) | 07 Jun 2024 6:19 a.m. PST |
I'm not familiar with some of those. |
martin goddard ![Sponsoring Member of TMP Sponsoring Member of TMP](boards/icons/sponsor.gif) | 07 Jun 2024 9:31 a.m. PST |
Overlord looks raunchy! martin |
0ldYeller | 07 Jun 2024 9:50 a.m. PST |
Martin – Overlord (1975) was on TCM yesterday – not really about D-Day that much – more of what used to be called a "pot-boiler" or pulp-fiction movie. |
ZULUPAUL ![Supporting Member of TMP Supporting Member of TMP](boards/icons/sp.gif) | 07 Jun 2024 11:42 a.m. PST |
Saw Overlord yesterday, didn't like it, too weird. |
Old Contemptible ![Supporting Member of TMP Supporting Member of TMP](boards/icons/sp.gif) | 07 Jun 2024 6:35 p.m. PST |
Those first 20 or so minutes in "Saving Private Ryan" were epic. |
42flanker | 08 Jun 2024 3:07 a.m. PST |
I liked "Overlord." It's very much of its time. A small budget b/w British feature of the mid-70s. Becuase of the intimate scale, it achieves a fairly authentic period atmosphere. It's not really about the landings, though, which feature marginally.* The film is more a meditation on one individual's apprehension of death, intensified by the tentative romance he has shortly before embarking. The tone is elegaic, but with no sentimentality and or heroics other than a young man reluctantly being prepared to do his bit. {*Spoiler alert: as the poster campaign of the time hinted, our man does not get very far up the beach} |
Shagnasty ![Supporting Member of TMP Supporting Member of TMP](boards/icons/sp.gif) | 08 Jun 2024 9:30 a.m. PST |
left out was a personal favorite,"The Americanization of Emily." |
Brunanburh | 04 Jul 2024 6:10 a.m. PST |
I haven't seen No.1, have probably seen 'The Longest Day' too often, didn't like 'D-Day, the Sixth of June' or 'Overlord', agree that the first 20 minutes of 'Pvt Ryan' were awesome but the one I most enjoy is the Ike one with Tom Selleck. Not much action but the characterisation is for me first class. |
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