Friday, February 28, 2025

In grandiose splendor

This is a 1992 documentary film directed by Werner Herzog. Shot in post-Gulf War Kuwait. The imagery of it is devastated and lifeless landscape. Oil fields in flames. It's an apocalyptic vision of destruction in the wake of war. The images are powerful, almost hypnotizing.

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Poison in the veins

Marcia su Roma (The March on Rome) was an organized mass demonstration in October 1922.  It led to the Italian fascist party led by Benito M...