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THE MT VOID
05/31/24 -- Vol. 42, No. 48, Whole Number 2330

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Topics:
         Middletown (NJ) Science Fiction Discussion Group
         Mark's Picks for Turner Classic Movies in June (comments
                 by Mark R. Leeper and Evelyn C. Leeper)
         THE SOUL OF BATTLE (book review by Gregory Frederick)
         Choices (letter of comment by Norman Salt)
         Which Side of History? (letter of comment
                 by Charles S. Harris)
         This Week's Reading (adaptations)
                 (book comments by Evelyn C. Leeper)

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TOPIC: Middletown (NJ) Science Fiction Discussion Group

June 6:  INCEPTION (2010) & short story "The Circular Ruins" (1940)
     by Jorge Luis Borges
     <https://books.google.com/books?id=1FrJqcRILaoC&pg=PA7>

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TOPIC: Mark's Picks for Turner Classic Movies in June (comments
by Mark R. Leeper and Evelyn C. Leeper)

For the 80th anniversary of the _Day landings, how could we not
recommend Turner"s D-Day marathon: 24 hours, 11 films about D-Day?

THURSDAY,  June 6
  6:00 AM    Code Name: Emerald (1985): A spy tries to get
             information about D-Day plans.
  8:00 AM    The Americanization of Emily (1964): A British war
             widow falls for an American sailor.
  10:00 AM   George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey (1984):
             Biography of one of the directors who filmed combat
             footage during WWII.
12:00 PM    36 Hours (1964): Nazis use subterfuge to try to
             convince an American that the war is over.
  2:00 PM    Red Ball Express (1952): Focuses on racial integration
             in one platoon.
  3:30 PM    D-Day the Sixth of June (1956): Love triangle set in
             Britain before the Normandy invasion.
  5:30 PM    George Stevens: D-Day to Berlin (1994): Documentary
             covering the push from D-Day to Berlin.
  6:30 PM    Overlord (1975): A soldier trains for D-Day.
  8:00 PM    Saving Private Ryan (1998): Surely everyone knows the
             plot of this one.
11:00 PM    The Longest Day (1962): The major film about D-Day
             with the usual epic scale and dozens of stars.
  2:15 AM    Eye of the Needle (1981): A german spy tries to leave
             Britain with information about D-Day.
  4:15 AM    I See A Dark Stranger (1946): A Irish woman becomes a
             Nazi spy.

If you aren't up to seeing them all, the most important ones to
see would be SAVING PRIVATE RYAN and THE LONGEST DAY.   Of SAVING
PRIVATE RYAN, Mark wrote at the time, "This is perhaps the most
realistic and at the same time perhaps the most violent war film
ever made.  Eight men are sent on a mission of mercy in the week
following the Normandy Invasion.  Along the way we see the
invasion of Europe from the perspective of a grunt soldier.  It is
not a pleasant sight.  This is an answer to every war movie that
ever made battle look glorious.  Rating: 9 (0 to 10), +3 (-4 to
+4)".

Before SAVING PRIVATE RYAN came out, THE LONGEST DAY was
considered the definitive D-Day film, and in some sense it still
is.  While SAVING PRIVATE RYAN covers D-Day, a lot of time is
spent on the (fictional) story of trying to find the fifth brother
from a family after the first four have been killed in combat that
day.  THE LONGEST DAY, on the other hand, is strictly about the
D-Day invasion and sticks pretty much to the facts.  Yes, the
dialogue is not necessarily exactly what was said, and some some
incidents might be fictionalized, but it doesn't invent an entire
story line.

For documentaries, "George Stevens: D-Day to Berlin" is more
D-Day-specific than the more general Stevens biography..

On the other hand, if you've already seen those, try sampling some
of the lesser-known ones.

["George Stevens: D-Day to Berlin" (1994), Thursday, June 6,
5:30 PM]
[SAVING PRIVATE RYAN (1998), Thursday, June 6, 8:00 PM]
[THE LONGEST DAY (1962), Thursday, June 6, 11:00 PM]

[-mrl/ecl]

Other films of interest include:

SATURDAY,  June 1
1:45 PM    The Bad Seed (1956)
4:15 PM    The Boy with Green Hair (1948)

MONDAY,  June 3
4:00 PM    Ben-Hur (1959)

WEDNESDAY,  June 5
7:00 AM    Cat People (1942)
8:15 AM    The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)

THURSDAY,  June 6
6:00 AM    Code Name: Emerald (1985)
8:00 AM    The Americanization of Emily (1964)
10:00 AM    George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey (1984)
12:00 PM    36 Hours (1964)
2:00 PM    Red Ball Express (1952)
3:30 PM    D-Day the Sixth of June (1956)
5:30 PM    George Stevens: D-Day to Berlin (1994)
6:30 PM    Overlord (1975)
8:00 PM    Saving Private Ryan (1998)
11:00 PM    The Longest Day (1962)
2:15 AM    Eye of the Needle (1981)
4:15 AM    I See A Dark Stranger (1946)

FRIDAY,  June 7
4:15 AM    I See A Dark Stranger (1946)

SUNDAY,  June 9
12:15 AM    Never Open the Door (1952)
10:00 AM    Never Open the Door (1952)

MONDAY,  June 10
8:00 PM    Psycho (1960)

MONDAY,  June 17
4:15 AM    Judex (1963)
10:00 PM    Superman: The Movie (1978)

FRIDAY,  June 21
6:15 PM    The Strangler (1964)

SUNDAY,  June 23
8:15 AM    Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1932)

MONDAY,  June 24
8:15 AM    Watership Down (1978)
10:00 AM    The Thing from Another World (1951)
8:00 PM    The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)

TUESDAY,  June 25
1:30 PM    Brigadoon (1954)

WEDNESDAY,  June 26
6:00 AM    The Story of Mankind (1957)
2:45 PM    The Beast with Five Fingers (1946)
4:15 PM    You'll Find Out (1940)
6:00 PM    M (1931)

THURSDAY,  June 27
6:00 AM    Dracula A.D. 1972 (1972)
7:45 AM    The Satanic Rites of Dracula (1973)
9:30 AM    It's Alive (1974)
11:15 AM    From Beyond the Grave (1973)
1:00 PM    Equinox (1970)
2:30 PM    The Shout (1978)

[-ecl]

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TOPIC: THE SOUL OF BATTLE by Victor Davis Hanson (book review by
Gregory Frederick)

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