Live HistoricSee what matters.

Film · Warner Bros. · 1990

Memphis Belle

Name: Memphis Belle scores 60 — Live Historic
Item: Memphis Belle
Rating: 60
Author: Live Historic

60Watch it awake.

The crew is the house. The film is smoother than the raid. The work of the airplane is the part to keep.

Pass it on

The review

Matthew Modine's captain wants to get his men through one more daylight raid over Germany. A public-relations officer is along because the Army Air Forces would like a crew to come home in one piece on camera. The film is a 1990 movie about 1943, and it looks like one: handsome, tense, and unwilling to stay in the ugly minutes as long as the documentary it came from.

A teenager can watch it. Tell him the Memphis Belle was real and this crew is a fiction built on a real tour. Then, if he is still interested, find William Wyler's 1944 documentary. The feature is the door. The documentary is the colder air on the other side of it. Do not let the door be the whole house.

Journal

Keep Memphis Belle in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 60. Yours can differ.

The glance

Piety is the thin one.

Can conscience actually stop someone, or is reverence only in the shot so it can be mocked?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

Consider this

We Were Soldiers

73 instead of 60

We Were Soldiers is still a war film, and it scores 73 instead of 60. What you gain is household: The wives are not a cutaway.

The eight

8
Industry
Each station on the bomber is a job, and the film bothers to show them.
6
Household
Ten men in a metal tube are a household for one night, whether or not they like each other.
4
Piety
Superstition and a prayer. The film is not embarrassed by either, and not deep about either.
7
Courage
The twenty-fifth mission is courage with a number on it. They are afraid, and they go.
5
Republic
A publicity officer wants the crew as a story. The film knows that hunger and only half resists it.
6
Temperance
The raid is the plot. It is tense and a little clean.
6
Truth
Inspired by a real aircraft and a documentary. The men here are a composite, and you should say so.
6
Stewardship
What it leaves is a picture of a crew, which is the right unit for this war.

Where to watch

Finding the page.

Live Historic · Memphis Belle · 60IMDb tt0100133

Live HistoricSee what matters.

Film · Prime Video · 2019

An Arthur Thanksgiving

60Watch it awake.

A small holiday special with a real table. Fine for children.

Pass it on

The review

Arthur's neighborhood has always been better at ordinary friction than at myths. Thanksgiving here is cooking, guests, a snag, and a meal that still happens. That is more useful than a pageant. Gratitude that has not met a late aunt and a crowded kitchen is only a slogan.

It will not change a life. It may remind a room that the feast is the people who came, including the difficult ones. Put it on while you peel the potatoes.

Journal

Keep An Arthur Thanksgiving in the record.