https://vo.rs/tags/wartime-cinema/Latest from the Wartime Cinema desk at vo.rs.Hugo -- gohugo.ioenThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.Fri, 12 Dec 2025 10:00:00 +0000https://vo.rs/screen/army-of-shadows-melvilles-resistance-as-doomed-duty/<p><em>Army of Shadows</em> was a flop in France in 1969, and it did not reach American screens in any proper form until 2006, thirty-seven years later, at which point critics who had never seen it discovered one of the greatest films ever made about war, resistance and the moral cost of doing what is necessary. The story of its burial is worth knowing, because it explains why a masterpiece could hide in plain sight for a generation. And the story of its recovery is one of the happier reversals in film history: a picture left for dead that turned out to be immortal.</p>Fri, 12 Dec 2025 10:00:00 +0000