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John Wayne in "The Island In The Sky"
Today on our Underreported feature, we’ll look at the latest news from Colombia. It's been torn by civil war for decades, but there may be new prospects for peace. Then, Gretchen Wayne describes the process of restoring two of her father-in-law’s lost films to DVD: "The High and the Mighty" and "Island in the Sky." David Schwartz, chief film curator of the Museum of the Moving Image, and director Peter Bogdanovich pay tribute to the films of Raoul Walsh. And we’ll take a look into how the U.S. military is reorganizing its foreign bases in the post-Cold War world.
Prospects for Peace
Columbia has been embroiled in four decades of civil war. In 2004, the UN humanitarian affairs chief determined that Colombia was the worst humanitarian crisis in the western hemisphere. Today on our Underreported feature, Mark L. Schneider of International Crisis Group tells us what he thinks the prospects for peace ...
The High and the Mighty
Gretchen Wayne, John Wayne’s daughter-in-law, tells us about the DVD of two of the Duke’s lost films from the 1950s: “The High and the Mighty” and “Island in the Sky.” “The High and the Mighty” was last seen on CBS in September 1979, while “Island in the Sky” hasn’t been ...
Raoul Walsh
David Schwartz, chief film curator of the Museum of the Moving Image, and director Peter Bogdanovich pay tribute to the films of Raoul Walsh. The first retrospective of the filmmaker’s work in New York in 30 years is playing at the Museum of the Moving Image until August 21st.
Military Basing Strategies
Last week, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan agreed to continue allowing the United States to use their bases for operations in Afghanistan. But Uzbekistan, which borders Afghanistan and was a much more strategic base for refueling and transferring goods, has given the US six months to evacuate their base there. We’ll find ...
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