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Highlights of a recent documentary style video

#ThrowBackThursday This week, we've dug into the JPH collection and located another excellent film analysis; Hank Nelson's 'Kokoda: Pushing the Front Line', https://buff.ly/3Yj8asa Abstract: From the release of Damien Parer's Kokoda Frontline in 1942, there have been several high quality documentary films and many popular and scholarly histories on the battles on the Kokoda Track, but until Alister Grierson's Kokoda of 2006 there was no feature film. Initially well received by an Australian public, Kokoda raises several important questions for historians. Makers of films on historical events properly draw on contemporary images: they are evocative of a time and place, guides to all that detail of dress, manners and possessions that take a crew so long to get right and that the pedantic delight in criticising, and they provide templates for shot composition. But the images in films are not subjected to the same scrutiny that historians apply to written sources. In Grierson's Kokoda, images are drawn from somewhere on the Track and relocated and, in one case, taken from another battle and another place. Film critics were concerned with placing Kokoda within the history of war films and evaluating it against other war films. When film critics considered whether Kokoda was ‘real’ or ‘convincing’, they were judging whether the behaviour of soldiers in battle moved and engaged an audience. Almost no film critics considered the film's accuracy as history, and it does repeat many popular errors about the Kokoda battles. Finally, it is interesting to consider what has been omitted and whether this has been the inevitable consequence of reducing an event spread over 100 kilometres of Track and several months to 92 minutes of film time, and whether the choices have diminished the end product as film or as history. More historians need to make themselves familiar with film and engage more readily in the public evaluation of those films claimed to be based on ‘true’ stories and illuminating what have come to be accepted as determining events in national histories. You can watch Kokoda Front Line (1942) here> https://buff.ly/4flEOiT #PacificHistory #Film #Cinema #Nationalism #WorldWar #MissedInHistory #History

Here's the first of two new short films about the priesthood that we produced for the National Office for Vocation. This first video features Fr Pius and Fr Matt... https://lnkd.in/etvMjzB2

Unveiling the Dark Romance: A Twisted Wuthering Heights Adaptation Coming 2025! - CineRecap.com Article Link - https://lnkd.in/dWiRUc9F It’s not yet clear what Fennell’s take on Emily Brontë’s classic novel will be, but given the success and acclaim of her previous work, including the award-winning Promising Young Woman, expectations are understandably high. Certainly, with the director’s reputation for fearless filmmaking and fresh takes on established genres, this is a project to keep a […] #MovieReviews #WebSeriesAnalysis #StreamingInsights #FilmCritique #EntertainmentNews #StorytellingReviews #OTTContent #BingeWatchGuides #CinemaTrends #FilmAnalysis #StreamingPlatforms #CinematicExperience #MovieRecommendations #SeriesRecap #FilmLovers #StreamingUpdates #MovieInsights #OTTNews #CineCritique #BingeWorthyContent #FilmReviews #OTTUpdates #MovieTrends #StreamingRecommendations #CinematicWorld #FilmDiscussion #SeriesReviews #CinephileCommunity #EntertainmentGuides #MovieExploration

FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION - Best Documentary Feature FollowingHarry.org

Getting the details right is important to me. While contemporary feature films are a wonderful way of getting an impression of the past, they are still fiction. Fortunately, there is a wealth of documentary films from the period I write about that helps deepen the understanding - partly through the messages they were intending to convey, and partly through letting us see the people of the time at work and play. Read more here: https://wix.to/0qadb2b #History #Documentary #Storytelling #ReadNow

🎥 I would like to share and highly recommend a short documentary by Nikodem Trzcinowicz titled RE/Creative - Learn from the Past; Influence the Future, which we at the New History of Bronze helped bring to life. 💡 "RE/creative follows six specialists from different fields who utilize re-creative practice in their work. From art to forensic science, each field employs it differently, yet the fundamental concept of re-creating remains consistent across disciplines. This documentary explores the idea by examining each field’s connection to the need for more handmade and traditional methods of understanding" - says Nik.

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When it comes to the sheer volume and complexity of the stunt work Tom Hardy has to do in "Venom: The Last Dance," he has nobody but himself (and his co-writer) to blame. #VenomTheLastDance #TomHardy #KellyMarcel #actionmovie #behindthescenes #moviemaking #stuntteam #Movies #MovieNews #Entertainment #EntertainmentNews #Celebrities #Celebrity #CelebrityNews #CelebrityInterviews #Venom #Venom3

Personal and unflinching, I DIDN'T SEE YOU THERE forces the viewer to confront the spectacle and invisibility of disability. Offering both a perspective and stylistic approach that are rarely seen, Reid brings an urgently needed storytelling eye to filmmaking with a documentary that is powerful and emotional, thoughtful and raw, intimate and political. https://hubs.ly/Q02L28SK0