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Overlord (1975)

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Reviews Counted:12

Fresh:11

Rotten:1

Average Rating:8.1/10

Rated: Not Rated

Runtime: 84 mins

Genre: Dramas

Theatrical Release:Jul 14, 2006 Limited

Synopsis: Shot in 1975, OVERLORD is a little-seen drama about a soldier going off to fight in World War II. Director Stuart Cooper utilizes real footage from the battle itself to add a strong dose of realism... Shot in 1975, OVERLORD is a little-seen drama about a soldier going off to fight in World War II. Director Stuart Cooper utilizes real footage from the battle itself to add a strong dose of realism to the movie. [More]

Starring: Brian Stirner, Nicholas Ball, Davyd Harries, Julie Neesam

Starring: Brian Stirner, Nicholas Ball, Davyd Harries, Julie Neesam

Director: Stuart Cooper

Director: Stuart Cooper

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A film that slipped through the cracks.

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07/19/09
Dennis Schwartz
Dennis Schwartz
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10/18/08
Peter Bradshaw
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04/26/07
John Thomason
John Thomason
Orlando Weekly

An unknown classic.

Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid | comment Comment
10/05/06
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid

Overlord feels like a small but vivid tragedy inside an epic container.

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07/21/06
Joe Morgenstern
Joe Morgenstern
Wall Street Journal
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The overriding themes of the film are never broadly stated but are subtly revealed, and the horror and reality of war are quietly played out on both the human and panoramic levels with disturbing effect.

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07/14/06
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Though made 31 years after D-Day, the dramatic scenes have the period look of a '40s movie, which links them perfectly with the stunning archival footage.

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07/14/06
Jack Mathews
Jack Mathews
New York Daily News
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Overlord, a prize-winning entry in the 1975 Berlin Film Festival, deserves to join the pantheon of essential World War II combat movies.

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07/13/06
A.O. Scott
A.O. Scott
New York Times
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It's still a feat of period filmmaking. More than that, Overlord's revivification of a wasteland Europe offers up a powerful whip lesson for the postwar complacent.

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07/11/06
Michael Atkinson
Michael Atkinson
Village Voice
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The film plays like a 1950's B-movie with artistic pretensions.

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06/29/06
Bill White
Bill White
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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06/24/06
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A majestic, somber work about war.

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06/03/06
Nan Robertson
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New York Times
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Cooper gives it the right understated, unheroic feel.

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06/02/06
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It's an extremely clever weave of components, combining, almost flawlessly, the dramatized and the archival, the result being a hybrid of forms.

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06/02/06
Stephen Hunter
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Washington Post
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Combines its newsreel and fictional footage so effectively that it has a greater impact than all fiction, or all documentary, could have achieved.

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06/02/06
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