Movies
Read Philip K. Scheuer’s 1957 review of ‘The Bridge on the River Kwai’
Nov. 24, 1957
Books
Ian Watt, a former British army officer who survived an infamous Japanese prisoner-of-war camp on Thailand’s River Kwai and became a leading literary critic, died Monday at a Menlo Park nursing home.
Dec. 18, 1999
Archives
Only The Times (and perhaps the Village Voice) could describe “Bridge on the River Kwai” as an “antiwar movie” (Calendar Listings, April 30).
May 7, 2000
World & Nation
Redemption: A British soldier and his Japanese torturer put World War II ghosts to rest at the site made famous by a novel and Oscar-winning movie.
Sept. 6, 1998
Takashi Nagase, 72, remembers very well what happened during the building of the bridge on the River Kwai in the jungle here.
Feb. 24, 1991
Reader Mark Landsbaum, so scornful of The Times for describing “The Bridge on the River Kwai” as an “antiwar movie” (Letters, “ ‘Kwai’s’ Messages,” May 7) reminds me of the fellow pontificating so pompously about Marshall McLuhan in “Annie Hall” that Alvy (Woody Allen) is forced to reach off-screen and produce McLuhan himself in order to refute the guy’s wrongheadedness.
May 14, 2000
Jim Zarroli’s article (“The End Game,” Sept. 10) describes a practice that has bugged me for years.
Oct. 8, 2000
A mass grave has been discovered near the site where tens of thousands of Asian slave workers and Allied prisoners died building a railroad for the Japanese during World War II.
Nov. 19, 1990
Colleagues, friends and fans discuss the work of the late David Lean, maker of ‘River Kwai’ and ‘Lawrence of Arabia.’
Oct. 10, 2003
Lectures, like loin of lamb, are best served warm, and those people at the American Film Institute’s tribute to David Lean at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Thursday night got both.
March 10, 1990