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Showing posts with label Pacific. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pacific. Show all posts
12 August 2015

Film Review: Alone Across the Pacific (1963) by Kon Ichikawa, *****

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Synopsis A powerful hymn to the human spirit, Alone Across the Pacific by renowned Japanese director Kon Ichikawa (An Actor's Reveng...
05 May 2014

Book review: Journey to Yesterday (1950), by Silvia Baker, **

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Muriel, by Silvia Baker Synopsis "One of the charms of travel" says Silvia Baker "is that you move in time as well as ...
12 June 2013

Film review: Flags of our Fathers (2006) by Clint Eastwood, ****

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testo italiano di seguito Synopsis The film is about a photograph by James Rosenthal , one of the most famous war pictures of all time...
16 March 2013

Film review: The Burmese Harp (1956), by Kon Ichikawa, *****

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Synopsis A rhapsodic celebration of song, a brutal condemnation of wartime mentality, and a lyrical statement of hope within darkness; eve...
07 February 2013

Film review: The Thin Red Line (1998), by Terrence Malick, ****

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Synopsis After directing two of the most extraordinary movies of the 1970s, Badlands and Days of Heaven, American artist Terrence Malick...
17 July 2012

Book review: Prisoner of the Japanese, by Tom Wade, *****

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English prisoners freed in Japan, September 1945 (AP Photo) Synopsis On 15 February 1942, the Japanese captured Singapore and took 130...
07 June 2012

Film review: Six Days, Seven Nights (1998), by Ivan Reitman, ****

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Synopsis Big-screen favorite Harrison Ford stars in this nonstop adventure hit about a dream vacation that turns into a hilarious tropi...
15 March 2012

Filw review: The Pacific (2012), by Carl Franklin and David Nutter. ***

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recensione in italiano di seguito in questo post Synopsis This limited collector's Blu-ray edition includes a bonus 7th disc entit...
05 January 2012

Film Review: Windtalkers, by John Woo, **

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Synopsis US Marine Nicolas Cage--with a scarred ear and a fed-up look--is given the job of looking after Navajo Adam Beach, whose complex ...

Recensione Film: Windtalkers, di John Woo, **

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Sinossi Durante la seconda guerra mondiale, l'esercito americano decide di usare il linguaggio degli indiani Navajos per codificare i m...
21 December 2011

Film Review: Pacific Battleship Yamato (2010), by Junya Sato, ****

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Synopsis World War II action film set aboard the Battleship Yamato, the most fearsome ship in the Pacific fleet and still to date the l...
20 December 2011

Film Review: Assault on the Pacific - Kamikaze (2007), by Taku Shinjo, ****

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Synopsis World War II epic about a squadron of Japanese Kamikaze pilots and their journey through training and first missions toward the te...
07 December 2011

Film Review: Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970), by R Fleischer, T Masuda and K Fukusaku, *****

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Synopsis Today is the sixtieth anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attack. That is one reason to review a forty years old movie. Another is ...
27 July 2011

Book Review: First Shot - The Untold Story of Japanese Minisubs That Attacked Pearl Harbor, by John Craddock, ****

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Synopsis America’s first shot of World War II was fired by a worn-out World War I destroyer. An hour before the Japanese attack on Pearl H...
12 March 2011

Recensione: Samurai!, di Saburo Sakai, ****

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Saburo Sakai Sinossi Con il suo "record" di 64 abbattimenti ufficiali, Saburo Sakai รจ considerato uno degli assi dell'...
22 April 2010

Book Review: Sailing Around the World, by Lizzi Eordegh and Carlo Auriemma, *****

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Synopsis In 1993, Elisabetta Eordegh and Carlo Auriemma set sail aboard the specially designed Barca Pulita (which translates, literally,...

Recensione: In barca a vela intorno al mondo, di C. Auriemma e L. Eordegh, *****

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Sinossi Le foto di questo volume documentano le avventure di Elizabetta Eordegh e Carlo Auriemma. Coraggiosamente, alla fine degli anni ...
26 September 2007

Recensione libro: Una ballata del mare salato (1967), di Hugo Pratt, *****

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Sinossi Novembre 1913, in tutto il mondo si sente aria di guerra a causa dell'imminente conflitto mondiale; Rasputin nel suo catama...
22 September 2007

Book review: Queen Salote of Tonga (1999), by Elizabeth Wood-Ellem, *****

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Synopsis This is an extensive biography of Queen Salote of Tonga . It is also a political and social history of the kingdom of Tonga b...
03 August 2007

Itinerario del viaggio a Tonga 4-29 Agosto 2007

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clicca qui per vedere la cartina ingrandita     Viaggio a TONGA 2007 Itinerario (clicca su una data per post de...