Tag: Heart of Darkness
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‘Snake Gas’ Review: David Jařab’s ‘Heart of Darkness’ Riff Falls Flat
Some literary works are so powerful that they keep echoing centuries after they first became public. That’s the case with Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, a novella that helped define the Western view on colonization and which inspired dozens of other works of art. Snake Gas (Hadí plyn) is the latest movie inspired by Heart…
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From Platoon to Winter Soldier: 10 of the best Vietnam war films
As Spike Lee releases new war drama Da 5 Bloods, we look back at the ways cinema has represented the 20-year conflictSpike Lee’s Da 5 Bloods, which is released on Netflix on 12 June, is the newest entry in cinema’s decades-long fascination with the trauma experienced by Us soldiers during the Vietnam war. But this…