On The Road With Al and Ivy: Blog

"In this land of boundless expanses and unnerving strangeness, this land with which none of their memories were linked, the bunker was a semblance of home." “Seems long to you, does it,” Steiner said tightly. He shook his head slowly. “It was yesterday, I tell you. Yesterday and today and tomorrow and always.” - Willi Heinrich (Cross Of Iron 1955 - translated by Richard and Clara Winston for 1956 English edition) "But there is no honor in this war, memories will be ugly, even if we win, and if we die, we die without God." - From 1957 movie, "The Enemy Below" Director Samuel Peckinpah's work was often pigeonholed into a violent, macho loser niche by critics in the 70s, and any philosophical underpinnings misunderstood or treated as thematic flaws. His visual art was judged by superficial elements like his trademark slow motion deaths (a technique now in common use in films).  Those mainstream opinions, thanks to the Internet, have multiplied by a factor...