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‘I considered starting over as a farmer’: Masao Adachi on political cinema, revolution and Japan today
3+ hour, 10+ min ago (742+ words) The director and ex-Japanese Red Army militant discusses his new film Escape, about the anarchist fugitive Satoshi Kirishima, the frustrations of radical film-making and progressive politics Last month, on the same day that Revolution+1 " a fictionalised account of the life…...
Stay Alive: Berlin 1939-45 by Ian Buruma – how Berliners defied their Nazi masters
1+ week, 6+ day ago (833+ words) An immersive account of how the inhabitants of a liberal city " including the author's father " survived fascismIn December 1941, the Nazi authorities received a letter from a'soldier complaining that, on his recent leave in Berlin, he had been thoroughly disgusted by…...
TR-49 review – inventive narrative deduction game steeped in the strangest of wartime secrets
1+ mon, 3+ day ago (783+ words) PC; InkleThe UK game developer's latest is a database mystery constructed from an archive of fictional books. Their combined contents threaten to crack the code of realityBletchley Park: famed home of the Enigma machine, Colossus computer, and, according to the…...
Key factors in the unstoppable rise of fascists in Germany | Letters
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (331+ words) Dr Jens Holst on why voters are drifting towards the right, Ahmed Dirie on arming ourselves against Fascism 2.0 movement, and Paul Gander on the role of the state and the media As important and accurate as Tania Roettger's portrayal is,…...
The Apartment: Billy Wilder’s Christmas classic is the blueprint for romcoms everywhere
2+ mon, 1+ day ago (262+ words) The 1960 film about a downtrodden insurance worker and his burgeoning crush is full of staccato repartee and unforgettable jokes. It's barely aged a day For romantic comedies and Christmas movies alike, a little misery can go a long way. No…...
Sad wartime fate of Chris Rea’s grandfather | Letters
2+ mon, 1+ day ago (284+ words) Andrew Keeley sheds light on the life of Camillo ReaThose of us who grew up in 1970s Middlesbrough remember with pleasure the Rea family cafes and our pride in the local boy's chart successes (Chris Rea obituary, 22 December). What is less…...
Ira ‘Ike’ Schab, one of last remaining Pearl Harbor survivors, dies aged 105
2+ mon, 3+ day ago (444+ words) Schab was a 21-year-old navy musician aboard USS Dobbin when Japan carried out surprise attack in 1941 A second world war veteran who was among the last survivors of the 1941 Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor died on Saturday. Ira "Ike" Schab,…...
The Effingers by Gabriele Tergit review – a vivid portrait of Berlin before the Nazis
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (997+ words) Written in 1951 and now translated into English for the first time, this family saga by the acclaimed German author recaptures a golden age for Jewish lifeIn 1948, the German Jewish author Gabriele Tergit travelled to Berlin. There, in ruins, was the…...
Primitive War review – it’s Green Berets vs dinosaurs in cheerfully cheesy Vietnam war gorefest
2+ mon, 4+ week ago (604+ words) Set to an on-the-nose soundtrack of Creedence Clearwater, an elite squad of soldiers are suitably unprepared for their large-toothed assailants in this jungle thrillerAimed squarely and unabashedly at viewers who love soldiers, gore and dinosaurs " as well as dinosaurs goring…...
Digitised official records of Nuremberg trials made available online
3+ mon, 4+ day ago (269+ words) Launch on 80th anniversary of groundbreaking legal effort comes after 25-year project by Harvard law school library A fully digitised collection of the records of the Nuremberg trials is being launched online to mark the 80th anniversary of the start of the…...