{"id":9908,"date":"2014-10-22T20:07:01","date_gmt":"2014-10-23T00:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=9908"},"modified":"2014-10-22T20:19:24","modified_gmt":"2014-10-23T00:19:24","slug":"twilight-time-goes-to-war-the-dogs-of-war-resurrected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=9908","title":{"rendered":"Twilight Time Goes to War: The Dogs of War + Resurrected"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9916\" style=\"width: 312px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/DogsOfWar_poster.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9916\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-9916\" alt=\"DogsOfWar_poster\" src=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/DogsOfWar_poster.jpg\" width=\"302\" height=\"457\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/DogsOfWar_poster.jpg 503w, https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/DogsOfWar_poster-198x300.jpg 198w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 302px) 100vw, 302px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9916\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">See Christopher Walken fight, shower, and eat a baloney sandwich with a 20-shot Meisterblender cocktail shotgun! Refuse his invite? I think not!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Twilight Time&#8217;s released several war films, and in the first of several two-film review sets we have John Irvin&#8217;s surprisingly excellent 1980 film version of John Forsyth&#8217;s novel\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=9911\"><strong>The Dogs of War<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I say surprisingly because after the mercenary war film sub-genre was beaten to death in the 1980s, it is refreshing to see a solid, classy, well-acted drama that has great action and a very strong performance by Christopher Walken, fresh with an Oscar statue from\u00a0<strong>The Deer Hunter<\/strong> (1978).<\/p>\n<p>John Irvin also exploits the resources of this solid budgeted film &#8211; the opening sequence ends with one amazing shot involving a plane taking off during a swirl of civil war action, and plumes of bombs exploding ground-level and in the sky. Amazingly choreographed in a pre-CGI era, and shot by the great Jack Cardiff.<\/p>\n<p>Also a surprise is Twilight Time&#8217;s release of Paul Greengrass&#8217; first film,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=9906\"><strong>Resurrected<\/strong> <\/a>(1989), a drama about a returning Falklands War soldier written off as dead but returning home to a less than friendly embrace.<\/p>\n<p>David Thewlis is excellent in his film debut, and Greengrass directed some stellar scenes in this relatively unknown drama. Maybe it&#8217;s Nick Redman&#8217;s hand, but I like the way the label, co-founded with Brian Jamieson, is dipping into British films that may not have gotten released here or have received their proper due on this side of the pond.<\/p>\n<p><em>Coming next:<\/em> Post #2 in my post-Video Store Day series, featuring snapshots of assorted ephemera.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mark R. Hasan<\/strong>, Editor<br \/>\n<strong>KQEK.com<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reviews of two war films released on Blu by Twilight Time: John Irvin&#8217;s cynical The Dogs of War (1980) and Paul Greengrass and David Thewlis&#8217; feature film debut, The Falklands War drama Resurrected (1989).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9914,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[3079,3087,3081,2562,3088,2563,2525,3089],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/DogsOfWar_featured.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8nuyW-2zO","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9908"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9908"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9933,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9908\/revisions\/9933"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}