In This Corner of the World

The life of a Japanese girl during wartime

"...film, a bright white flash from the direction of Hiroshima. But director Katabuchi (Mai Mai Miracle) leavens this multi-award-winning..."

Aug. 25, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Barefoot Gen

"...experiences as a survivor of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima when he was 6 years-old. Nakazawa's story begins with..."

Feb. 12, 1993 Movie Review by Pamela Bruce

Colombiana

A professional assassin by day, a vigilante by night: Zoe Saldana is Luc Besson's latest femme fatale.

"...Kamen), Megaton simply does not live up to the Hiroshima-leveling explosivity of his surname. Colombiana is one long megayawn;..."

Sept. 2, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Academy Award-Nominated Documentary Shorts 2005

A rare opportunity to see what's considered the best in the field of short docs; plus all four nominees have a socio-political bent.

"...from its cavity. Japanese-American filmmaker Steven Okazaki returns to Hiroshima 60 years after the first atomic bomb destroyed the..."

April 7, 2006 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Japanese Story

An off-the-charts performance by Toni Collette is just one of the many rewards of this unconventional love story.

"...but a philosophical one; like the lovers in Resnais’ Hiroshima Mon Amour, Sandy and Hiromitsu are strongly representative of..."

March 5, 2004 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Austin Film Society Documentary Tour

White Light/Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

"...Boy," a 15-kiloton uranium bomb, on the center of Hiroshima, killing 140,000 people. Three days later, "Fat Man," a..."

Sept. 14, 2007 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Letters at 3AM

8:15am, the moment Hiroshima was bombed, comes around every morning: It is something we live with

"...delivering 9,000-worth of horsepower, dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. And just 24 years after that, people walked on..."

Aug. 3, 2007 Column by Michael Ventura

Hiroshima Mon Amour

When it comes to Alain Resnais' Hiroshima Mon Amour, "such a film about the darker side of love, much like the darker side of war, should not be ignored," writes Eli Kooris.

"...Hiroshima Mon Amour..."

Sept. 5, 2003 Screens Review by Eli Kooris

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...100 kilotons (almost five times the force of the Hiroshima bomb that immediately killed 140,000 people) ..." The yield..."

Jan. 23, 2004 Column

Trust the Bush Administration

"...100 kilotons (almost five times the force of the Hiroshima bomb that immediately killed 140,000 people) ..." the yield..."

Jan. 19, 2004 Postmarks

Memoir of War

WWII literary adaptation lacks the novel's spark and insight

"...Duras, the novelist (The Lover), philosopher, screenwriter (Oscar-nominated for Hiroshima Mon Amour), and director (played here by Thierry). Tellingly,..."

Aug. 31, 2018 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Point Austin: In Memory

The dead we remember, and the lessons we still need to learn

"...of Memorial Day with the visit of Obama to Hiroshima, the first sitting U.S. president to make that pilgrimage...."

June 3, 2016 News Column by Michael King

An Eye for History

"...Austin Chronicle: Did the bomb and Hiroshima change the war for you?..."

April 23, 1999 Arts Feature by Sam Martin

Nukes Are Back!

The Bush administration plans for the next (little) nuclear wars

"...years after Harry Truman incinerated the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Soviet Union successfully tested its own..."

Jan. 16, 2004 News Feature by William M. Adler

War Drums

"...as immediately devastating as the 1945 nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Those analogies are presented not by wild-eyed..."

Feb. 21, 2003 News Feature by Michael King

Labyrinth of Cinema

House director’s love letter to movies, peace, and history

"...like the final days of Japan’s Edo period and Hiroshima days before the atom bomb terrorized its inhabitants. The..."

Dec. 31, 2021 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

Pet Sematary Remake to Close SXSW Film

Midnighters, Festival Favorites, plus shorts all announced

"...(Anna Bergmann), Akiko Takakura survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima – in the midst of total destruction she finds..."

Feb. 6, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Mile 22

Wahlberg and company get bloody as a CIA black ops team

"...something) are globally located, which have the power of Hiroshima AND Nagasaki combined. We know this because Silva has..."

Aug. 24, 2018 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

God's Not Dead: A Light in Darkness

Evangelical film franchise rolls into volume three.

"...freshly haunted by the 20th-century horrors of Auschwitz and Hiroshima. The more literal-minded God’s Not Dead franchise of faith-based..."

April 6, 2018 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Amour

Death is part of love’s bargain, a fact filmmaker Michael Haneke lays bare.

"...Trintignant (A Man and a Woman) and Emmanuelle Riva (Hiroshima, mon amour). Playing an elderly couple, Georges and Anne,..."

Jan. 25, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Wild Grass

Alain Resnais' glorious-looking film spirals in its subjective viewpoints with a main character who may be mad or merely madly in love or perhaps maddened that love has somehow eluded him.

"...French New Wave; his early masterworks Night and Fog, Hiroshima Mon Amour, and Last Year at Marienbad are as..."

Aug. 20, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Departures

This Oscar-winner for Best Foreign Language Film is a gentle and comedically nuanced exercise in mourning from Japan.

"...account of the aftermath of the Allied bombing of Hiroshima adapted from Keiji Nakazawa's long-running manga. I still believe,..."

Aug. 28, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Angels & Demons

The chase is on, but there's no Holy Grail to be found in this suspenseless trail of decoded symbols.

"...(the so-called "God Particle"), which will set off a Hiroshima-like house-cleaning at the stroke of midnight (when, um, the..."

May 15, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Magic Time

Oh, the sights you'll see at First Night Austin

"...be installed at City Hall, then sent to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. 3-3:45pm...."

Dec. 28, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Questioning Ventura

"...dropped on Nagasaki. Little Boy, which was dropped on Hiroshima, was a uranium-235 gun-type of bomb. He states that..."

Aug. 6, 2007 Postmarks

Japaniversary

A decade at SXSW and Japan's musical jack-in-the-box has lost none of its delight. China, Singapore, India, and Iran take their cue, in baby steps.

"...Formed in 2000 by vocalist/accordionist Izumi Goto, Hiroshima's Nekomushi is known for highly theatrical performances and far-reaching..."

Feb. 23, 2007 Music Feature by Greg Beets

Pissyourpantstastic

They're still streaming into SXSW from the land down under

"...of their youth listening to Ian McCulloch. I Heart Hiroshima sounds a little like every band out of Boston..."

Feb. 23, 2007 Music Feature by Michael Bertin

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...• Marking the 60th anniversary of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, Austin Peace Action is sponsoring a..."

Aug. 5, 2005 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Godzilla

This is the original and uncut version of the 1954 Japanese monster picture.

"...did a slight nine years after the bombings at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, is the director’s metaphorical take on the..."

July 23, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Braying for Plutonium

The U.S. Dept. of Energy visits Amarillo in search of friendly site for manufacturing nuclear warheads.

"...six times more explosive than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945. "Use of these weapons would cross an..."

July 11, 2003 News Feature by William M. Adler

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