Warfare – War time by Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza (from August 21st in the cinema) is a very tough War Movie that catapults to the front with disturbing realism. It is taken from a true story and is based on the direct testimonies of a group of men of the special bodies of the American Navy, the Navy Seal, including Mendoza himself, here at his debut in directing. The film tells in real time the dramatic mission of November 19, 2006 in Ramadi, Iraq.
The exit of Warfare – War time It is an opportunity to retrace here i Best war movies ever, especially concentrated on scenes of epochal fights, grim realism and horror trauma.
Here, in our opinion, the 10 most beautiful war films.
Nothing new on the western front (2022) by Edward Berger
A powerful and heartbreaking film, of perforating visual charm, which revisits the great literary classic of Erich Maria Remarque. During the First World Warenthusiastic German kids enlist and reach the western front in northern France. The ardor soon breaks against horror and despair. Trenches, mud, merges torn, an angered fight against survival. Meanwhile, the minimalist but disturbing theme of the soundtrack of Volker Berttelmann He stuck on him.
Four Oscar prizes Conquered: Best international film, photography, scenography and soundtrack.
The Great War (1959) by Mario Monicelli
Between Italian comedy and history, between irony and drama. Alberto Sordi And Vittorio Gassman Together, two smart ones who seek in vain to avoid the front. Here they are at the front, in 1916, First World War, in the trench, on the march, in the cold, between so much fear, so cowardly that it becomes heroes.
Golden lion At the Venice Film Festival and three David di Donatello on the bulletin board.
Glory horizons (1957) by Stanley Kubrick
A very hard film, which is a radical stance against the stupidity of the war. With impressive battle sequences, in black and white.
Financed by his star Kirk Douglas which was impressed by Armed robbery by Kubrick, based on the novel of the same name by Humphrey Cobb, Glory horizons It is at any time an appeal against horror and senselessness of the war.
During the First World War two French generals order an impossible suicidal attack for ambition and firmness. When the company ends in a disaster, one of the two asks for the shooting of three soldiers at random to save his face.
Save the soldier Ryan (1998) by Steven Spielberg
Inspired by the true story of the Niland brothers, the film moves with raw and effective realism in the battle scenes, especially in the initial sequences of the landing in Omaha Beach.
In June 1944, during the landing in Normandythe American captain played by Tom Hanks He receives the order to bring his dapheel beyond the enemy lines to find and save the soldier Ryan (Matt Damon), the only survivor of four brothers.
Five Oscars won, mostly technical, including best direction.
Apocalypse Now (1979) by Francis Ford Coppola
War of Vietnam1970, third year of conflict. An American captain (Martin Sheen) is hired to trace and kill a charismatic colonel (Marlon Brando), in the Cambodian jungle, apparently completely crazy. To do this, he undertakes a dangerous and hallucinated journey, in the heart of human darkness.
Two Oscar prizes (sound and photography) and three Golden Globe (directing, unprotected actor to Robert Duvall and soundtrack).
The battle of Algiers (1966) by Gillo Pontecorvo
Golden lion At the Venice Film Festival, it is a rigorous (black and white) representation of the Algerian fight for independence from France, fought between 1954 and 1962. A strong film, with an almost documentary cut, still testimony to historical facts that are not so distant.
Narrated mostly in flashbacks, it is mainly interpreted by non -professional Algerian actors. In particular, the revolutionary Ali La Pointe (Brahim Haggiag), with the background music of Ennio Morricone.
1917 (2019) by Sam Mendes
Mud, Marci corpses, horse carcasses, sudden explosions, skeletons of homes devoured by the flames: the race against time and against the death of two young military is a tragic and beautiful staging that, yet pulsate with life.
Inspired by the stories of the First World War that the grandfather made to Sam Mendes, 1917 It reconstructs an impossible and heroic mission, as a tribute to all soldiers, of the past and the present, and their sacrifice.
Two British corporals (George Mackay and Dean-Charles Chapman) are part of the eighth battalion allocated in the north of France. They are called to a test that looks like suicide.
A war and survival film that is An immersive and exciting experiencealways alongside its protagonists.
Go and see (1985) by ėlem Klimov
With terrible realism, the Russian director takes us during the Second World War, in the German occupation of the Belarus in 1943. More than scenes of epic battles, the film puts us in front of the trauma of the war, with sequences of atrocious cruelty, through the gaze of the young protagonist Fljora (Aleksej Kravčenko), a teenager who in the end, thus tried by what has been experienced, will seem to have the face of an old man.
The room often stops on Most of the spectral floors. It seems to be in a group of horror. It is no coincidence that the title of the film is a verse of the apocalypse.
Strongly antimilitarist, Go and see He won the Venice Classici Prize for the best film restored at the 2017 Venice Film Festival.
Randy (1985) by Akira Kurosawa
A spectacular reinterpretation of the tragedy King Lear of Shakespeare, in a meditation on the power and horror of human madness. In the Feudal Japan Of the 16th century, the elderly gentleman divides the kingdom between his three children: a blood fratricidal war is unleashed between palace and turbid conspiracy machines. The meaning of “Ran” in Japanese? “Chaos”.
An Oscar won for costumes and Bafta for best foreign film.
Platoon (1986) by Oliver Stone
By drawing on his personal experience as a volunteer during the war in Vietnam, Stone brings us into the conflict, as if we had also been recruited together with the young protagonist (Charlie Sheen), in an authentic and engaging representation of the front. With him in the damp little wet of the jungle, waiting for the enemy attack.
Four Oscars On the bulletin board (best film, direction, assembly, sound) and three golden globe (best film, direction, unprotected actor at Tom Berenger, ruthless sergeant with a disfigured face).
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