Sean Axmaker

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After paying tribute to the American Marines who fought in the Pacific theater of World Wat II in Flags of Our Fathers, Clint Eastwood took a look at the soldiers on the other side of the battle. An American film shot almost entirely in Japanese, Letters from Iwo Jima (2006) invites us to experience the war from the perspectives of the men given an impossible order to hold the island at all costs as the tide of war turns against them.

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Baseball has been good to Kevin Costner. Bull Durham helped make him a movie heartthrob and Field of Dreams turned him into a heartland hero. A decade later he back onto the diamond, this time as a veteran pitcher on the downside of his professional career, in For Love of the Game (1999). Billy Chapel is a 19-year vet of the Detroit Tigers limping through a losing season to their final game. His arm is hurting, which only his lovable mug of a catcher Gus (John C.

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One of the great movie musicals, The Band Wagon (1953) stars Fred Astaire as Tony Hunter, a former Broadway hoofer who returns to New York when his Hollywood career dries up. He’s looking for a comeback and his friends, the fun-loving married couple Lester and Lily Marton (Oscar Levant and Nanette Fabray), have developed one just for him. When they sign Broadway’s hottest talent, enfant terrible Jeffrey Cordova (Jack Buchanan), to direct, Tony’s future seems bright indeed.

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You could collect the films of Argentine filmmaker Lisandro Alonso under the title “Into the Wild.” His characters go out of the cities and into the wilderness or the isolated backcountry, and characters who leaves the constraints of society for the primal or the internal. Jauja (2014), pronounced “How-ha,” is both: an odyssey into the badlands of Argentina where a bandit leader rules (by myth as much as by violence) and into a dream.

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Not so long ago in a galaxy not too far away, an ambitious young filmmaker named George Lucas tapped into the movies he loved in his youth and reimagined them as a science fiction odyssey that changed to face of popular culture around the world: Star Wars (1977).