Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence was the first English-language project of Japanese director Nagisa Oshima (Death by Hanging, In the Realm of the Senses). In tune with his previous filmic essays on racism and brutality, Merry Christmas concentrates on a war of wills between rebellious POW David Bowie and camp commandant Ryuichi .. Read more
| Starring | David Bowie, Tom Conti, Ryuichi Sakamato |
|---|---|
| Director | Nagisa Oshima |
| Genres | Drama |
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Is The Golden Compass a Christmas movie? Novelist Philip Pullman would probably be appalled at the idea. Despite quisling spin from the movie's stars, the book is very clearly an attack on religion, and (to a lesser degree) the film is too. A Church of England atheist, as he puts it, Pullman imagines a society in thrall to a powerful theological body, the Magisterium, whose pervasive influence threatens to curtail individual liberties and the great Enlightenment tradition of scientific inquiry. Read more
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