Reviews
Band of Brothers (2001)
We Viewed
We viewed, we happily viewed, this "Band of Brothers".
The Path to 9/11 (2006)
Even a great cast couldn't salvage this
I watched Path, in spite of the gushing praise by Limbaugh, because of the much better than average cast, and, frankly, because of the controversy.
Docu-dramas aren't a particularly useful venue for dealing with historic events, but, even considering that, this did a disturbing amount of misrepresentation of documented events and creation of significant events that never occurred. American Airlines will never get satisfaction for the serious slander against them. Too many viewers will go away from the thing thinking that a major character named Kirk (who never existed) was stopped with bin Laden in his sights (which never happened, and the list goes on.
That this happened should not be surprising. Director David Cunningham, with a proved agenda, but no great works to his credit, hired a not incompetent writer, Cyrus Nowrasteh, who has a compatible agenda, if we are to believe his own words, from various interviews, with Hannity and others.
As a work of fiction, Path is average entertainment. As a work claiming to be in large part based upon the Report of the 9/11 Commission, it is, in the opinion of members of that commission, people who were there, and many members of its own cast, an insult to the victims and survivors of 9/11 and to the American people.
Hamlet at Elsinore (1964)
Helped hook me on Shakespeare
I saw this "Hamlet", my first, on television about 35 years ago. It helped hook me on Shakespeare, so I cannot really be objective, but scenes from it have seemed to linger, seemed to stand up to other Hamlets.