The Wild One explores the journey of Holocaust survivor Jack Garfein and how his trauma would impact him as a director and filmmaker. Orson Welles once said of Garfein that “If there had not been a Jack Garfein, Hollywood would have invented him!” The generation of Shoah survivors are dying out. Garfein passed away at the end of 2019. Born in Czechoslovakia in 1930, his family moved to Hungary because they thought it would be…
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The Bridge on the River Kwai, the Oscar-winning epic directed by David Lean, arrives on 4K UHD in celebration of its 65th Anniversary. “What have I done?” – Colonel Nicholson (Alec Guinness) Like Pierre Boulle’s novel, the film uses the construction of the Burma Railway in 1942–1943 for its main setting. However, both the plot and characters are mostly fictional. In layman’s terms, this film is historical fiction with the emphasis on fiction. If you…
"The Bridge on the River Kwai: 65th Anniversary 4K"