please join me in welcoming brian steed back to the library. >> [ applause ] >> okay, so thank you and welcome. i love coming here. i love talking about movies. i am a movie fan not just as a thing to do for fun, but as art. we have talked about different aspects of film. it is going to be different. as it was already said, i will not focus on one movie but we will spend most of our time talking about the best years of our lives . i will use a lot of superlatives tonight. i think they are all warranted. we might take umbrage with a few but that's okay because i make you think why it isn't the best or greatest or whatever, so i am okay with you to argue that. okay, we will talk about world war ii and movies. so, why this film? well, at the beginning of last school year, back around september, october, one of my students made a comment in almost whimsical or wistful way of, oh, back in world war ii, the entire nation was united. wouldn't it be nice if the entire nation was united today? he said it in such a way, it was like it was automatic. like everybody organically wanted to support t

please join me in welcoming brian steed back to the library library. okay. so thank and welcome. i love here i love i love talking about movies. i'm a fan not just as a thing to do for fun, but as art. so we're going to talk about different aspects of film. it's going to be different as was already. i'm not going to focus just on one movie, but we are going spend most of our time talking about the best years of our lives. so i'm going to use a lot of superlatives tonight. i think they're all warranted. you might take umbrage with few, but that's okay because i'll make you think why isn't the best or the greatest or whatever so i'm okay for you to argue with? point okay. so we're going to talk about world two and movies. so why this film? well, at the beginning of last school year so bk sometime september october, one of my students made the comment in almost a whimsical, even a a wistful of back in world war two the entire nation was united behind the war effort. and wouldn't it be nice the entire nation was united today and and he said it in such a way that it was like it automa

please join me in welcoming brian steed back to the library. >> okay, so thank you and welcome here, talking about movies. not just as a thing to do for fun, but as art. we will talk about different aspects of film. not just focused on one movie but we are going to spend most of our time talking about the best years of our lives soon going to use a lot of superlatives tonight. i think they are all warranted. you might take coverage with a few, but that's okay. i will make you think why it is not the best for the greatest or whatever, so i am okay for you to argue that eric we will talk about world war ii uruguay this film? at the beginning of last school year, october, one my students made a comment in almost a wistful way to united behind the war effort. he said it in such a way that it was automatic everybody organically wanted to support the war effort here at that time, i told him it was not exactly organic, like a lot of that unity was manufactured. it was created by the government and hollywood here a lot of the country was not necessarily before pearl harbor was not in support