{"id":22475,"date":"2018-01-16T09:22:09","date_gmt":"2018-01-16T08:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=22475"},"modified":"2018-01-16T09:22:09","modified_gmt":"2018-01-16T08:22:09","slug":"contemporary-cinema-2-dunkirk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=22475","title":{"rendered":"Contemporary cinema (2): &#8220;Dunkirk&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I began another of the many courses that I&#8217;ve attended over the years at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.citylit.ac.uk\">City Literary Institute<\/a> in central London. It is called &#8220;Contemporary Cinema: The Best Films Of The Year&#8221; and the lecturer is the American John Wischmeyer. The plan is that most weeks we will see and discuss clips from an acclaimed recent film and then compare it to a couple of significant older movies.<\/p>\n<p>This week, the chosen film was Christopher Nolan&#8217;s <em>&#8220;Dunkirk&#8221;<\/em> [my review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/Films:D#Dunkirk\">here<\/a>]. We saw an extensive number of clips and then had a short discussion. The lecturer declared that &#8220;This is a masterpiece&#8221; but one student attacked the work as jingoistic propaganda.<\/p>\n<p>We compared &#8220;Dunkirk&#8221; with two other British war films: the 2007 <em>&#8220;Atonement&#8221;<\/em> [my review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/Films:A#Atonement\">here<\/a>], when we viewed the famous five-minute continuous shot of the beach at Dunkirk, and the 1946 <em>&#8220;A Matter Of Life And Death&#8221;<\/em> [my review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/clfilms.html#MOLAD\">here<\/a>], when we saw the famous radio exchange between the principal characters.<\/p>\n<p>I was pleased that, as last week, I had seen all the films under discussion and it was interesting to compare and contrast them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I began another of the many courses that I&#8217;ve attended over the years at the City Literary Institute in central London. It is called &#8220;Contemporary Cinema: The Best Films Of The Year&#8221; and the lecturer is the American John Wischmeyer. The plan is that most weeks we will see and discuss clips from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22475"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22484,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22475\/revisions\/22484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}