The New York Times – Film:
The biopic director argues that the physicist who oversaw creation of the atomic bomb was both the most important person who ever lived and hopelessly naïve.
Category: World War II (1939-45)
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‘Tirailleurs’: Movie Honors the African Soldiers France Tried to Forget
The New York Times – Film:
The success of “Tirailleurs,” set in the mire and mayhem of World War I, has helped resurface the often neglected story of colonial soldiers forced to take up somebody else’s fight.
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Friedrich Cerha, 96, Who Finished Another Composer’s Masterpiece, Dies
The New York Times – Music:
His skill in completing Alban Berg’s “Lulu” almost 40 years after Berg’s death was considered one of the greatest operatic achievements of the 20th century.
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Touring Atomic New Mexico and the State’s Surrounding Attractions
The New York Times – Travel:
The Southwestern state was central to the development of nuclear weapons. When the testing ground for the first detonation recently reopened for visitors, a writer decided to confront that difficult history.
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A 16th-Century French Chateau That Honors a Family’s Histories of Exile
The New York Times – T Magazine:
For centuries, the owners of an ancestral estate have sought to secure within its walls the worlds they lost.
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Opening Old Wounds as the Man Who Warned About the Holocaust
The New York Times – Film:
In the solo play “Remember This,” David Strathairn portrays Jan Karski, a witness to the Nazi genocide during World War II.
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Book Review: ‘The Twilight World,’ by Werner Herzog
The New York Times – Film:
In “The Twilight World,” the filmmaker Werner Herzog vividly reconstructs the personal war of Hiroo Onoda, who stayed in the jungle for years after World War II ended.