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Article: `MICHAEL COLLINS' GIVES US REVELATIONS ABOUT REVOLUTION.(L.A. LIFE) (movie review)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
- Article date:
- October 11, 1996
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Byline: Bob Strauss Daily News Film Critic
When Woodrow Wilson saw D.W. Griffith's 1915 epic ``The Birth of a Nation'' - not too long before Irish revolutionaries fired the first shots to establish their own nation - the president declared that the groundbreaking movie was ``like writing history with lightning.''
Eight decades later, lightning's struck again. ``Michael Collins,'' Neil Jordan's picture about the legendary, still-controversial Irish freedom fighter, makes history electric. Intimate and exciting, complicated and mad, as beautiful as it is intelligent, this film's ultimate, overriding virtue is the way it breathes. It's a vital, visceral, ...
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Article: FOR REA, `MICHAEL COLLINS' A TURNING POINT.(L.A. ...
Daily News (Los Angeles, CA);
October 20, 1996 ;
700+ words
... ... That, says Irish actor Stephen Rea, who played the lead ... Jordan's latest film, ``Michael Collins,'' which seems destined ... about ourselves.'' ``Michael Collins'' is the fifth film Rea ... I wasn't going to play Michael Collins, since the original title ...
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