Memorial Day
By Craig Kennedy - May 26th, 2008; 12:01 am
The setting is France, but the message is universal.
Wishing you a peaceful Memorial Day, in honor of those who have died on our behalf.
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One of the best movies on the subject of war, soldiering, and the politics of sacrifice ever made. And that scene plays brilliantly every time I see it.
That Kubrick guy knew a thing or two about ending a movie, no?
Nice touch, Craig. I didn’t watch it the whole way through because I’ve never seen “Paths of Glory” (shame on me). Is that Adolph Menjou, by the way?
In any case, you’ve inspired me to do a similar thing on my blog…I’ll get that up in a few secs.
Paths of Glory was this week’s Essential on TCM. I re-recorded it on DVD.
Anyone who hasn’t seen it must. Now.
It’s an Essential for a reason! :)
Oh man Dorothy, you have to catch Path’s of Glory. For modern audiences it’s probably a bit dated, but you’re a woman who knows her way around an old movie so it’ll be fine.
Kirk Douglas has that way of overacting a little, but for some reason, it’s charming when he does it…he’s so earnest.
The clip is much better in context, but it makes me misty eyed every time.
Also, yeah, that was Adolph Menjou and he was awesome.
Based on The Killing and Path’s of Glory, I can’t figure out why Timothy Carey didn’t get more work. Great character actor.
I’ve always wondered that too Craig. I thought Carey was stunning in both films. A real screen presence and an acting style that stood out as more modern in comparison to the films other actors.
Modern. Exactly.
Naturalistic rather than stagey.
The entire cast of Paths is pretty great, but it is kind of odd that Carey didn’t work more as a character actor. Everytime I see him in that role I think of a young, laconic Nicholas Cage.
I had the privilege of seeing a print of this in a theater last year and it’s amazing how well all of the black humor plays on the big screen. It’s easy to forget that as harrowing as the plot actually is this movie is as much a satire as it is a drama.
I admitted it before on HE, but again: I have not seen PATHS OF GLORY. I watch today.
This is what you’d call a must-see Christian.
Also, RIP Sydney Pollack.
(And Boo to a certain blogger who needed to indicate how unsurprised he was).
You’re still getting put in the spam file Jeff….not sure why.