Press release
HELL AND BACK AGAIN
Danfung Dennis's Sundance Award-Winning Film About Coming Home From War has
U.S. Theatrical Premiere on Wednesday, October 5, 2011 in NYC!
Film Forum is pleased to present the U.S. theatrical premiere of HELL AND BACK AGAIN, a film by Danfung Dennis about coming home from war - the winner of two prizes at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival.
An acclaimed photojournalist, Dennis follows 25-year-old Marine Sgt. Nathan Harris on his most difficult mission: coming
home after being seriously wounded in Afghanistan. Embedded with Harris's unit during their assault on a Taliban stronghold, Dennis brilliantly toggles between the intense experience of war (stunningly photographed by him), and the
challenges of re-adjusting to civilian life in small town North Carolina.
HELL AND BACK AGAIN brings the war home in ways that make gun-toting soldiering look like a day at the beach compared with the physical and psychic scars that manifest upon returning home. Intimately contrasting the intensity of the frontline with one soldier's harsh acclimation to physical disability, family and the normalcy of home, HELL AND BACK AGAIN lays bare the true costs of war.
HELL AND BACK AGAIN will have a two-engagement, October 5 - 18, at Film Forum, West Houston Street
(west of 6th Avenue), with screenings daily at 1:15, 3:15, 6:00, 8:00 & 10:00.
HELL AND BACK AGAIN
(2011, U.S. 88 min.) Directed by Danfung Dennis. Producers: Mike Lerner and Martin Herring. Executive Producers: Dan Kogan, Karol Martesko-Fenster, Gernot Schaffler and Thomas Brunner. Editor: Fiona Otway. Music & Sound Design by J. Ralph. Original Song "Hell and Back," Music & Lyrics by J. Ralph, Performed by Willie Nelson. English and Pashtu with English Subtitles. A Docurama Films release.
MOVIE website-http://www.hellandbackagain.com/
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HELL AND BACK AGAIN
Danfung Dennis's Sundance Award-Winning Film About Coming Home From War has
U.S. Theatrical Premiere on Wednesday, October 5, 2011 in NYC!
Film Forum is pleased to present the U.S. theatrical premiere of HELL AND BACK AGAIN, a film by Danfung Dennis about coming home from war - the winner of two prizes at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival.
An acclaimed photojournalist, Dennis follows 25-year-old Marine Sgt. Nathan Harris on his most difficult mission: coming
home after being seriously wounded in Afghanistan. Embedded with Harris's unit during their assault on a Taliban stronghold, Dennis brilliantly toggles between the intense experience of war (stunningly photographed by him), and the
challenges of re-adjusting to civilian life in small town North Carolina.
HELL AND BACK AGAIN brings the war home in ways that make gun-toting soldiering look like a day at the beach compared with the physical and psychic scars that manifest upon returning home. Intimately contrasting the intensity of the frontline with one soldier's harsh acclimation to physical disability, family and the normalcy of home, HELL AND BACK AGAIN lays bare the true costs of war.
HELL AND BACK AGAIN will have a two-engagement, October 5 - 18, at Film Forum, West Houston Street
(west of 6th Avenue), with screenings daily at 1:15, 3:15, 6:00, 8:00 & 10:00.
HELL AND BACK AGAIN
(2011, U.S. 88 min.) Directed by Danfung Dennis. Producers: Mike Lerner and Martin Herring. Executive Producers: Dan Kogan, Karol Martesko-Fenster, Gernot Schaffler and Thomas Brunner. Editor: Fiona Otway. Music & Sound Design by J. Ralph. Original Song "Hell and Back," Music & Lyrics by J. Ralph, Performed by Willie Nelson. English and Pashtu with English Subtitles. A Docurama Films release.
MOVIE website-http://www.hellandbackagain.com/
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ODW REPORT
ARMADILLO - Award Winning Danish War Documentary On Demand
07/13/11_On Demand Weekly provides new movie reviews of hot movies on demand from the POV of watching from the comfort of your home.
Today’s review: ARMADILLO (FilmBuff) - Award Winning Danish War Documentary On Demand By Chris Claro_
A war documentary with the sheen of a fictional feature film, ARMADILLO is the harrowing account of a Danish unit’s descent into the depths of the war in Afghanistan. Director Janus Metz embedded himself with the platoon, recording their final days at home and following them into the treacherous Afghan countryside.
Metz and his cameraman, Lars Skree present a full picture of the lives of the soldiers, from the mind-numbing time off duty – filled with MREs, videogames, and Internet porn – to hazardous, unpredictable, and possibly deadly excursions into the mountains and deserts of Afghanistan.
Throughout, Metz reminds viewers that, despite the fact that the Danish soldiers are there to do “good,” the Taliban is such an insidious and pervasive force that Afghanis are unable to cooperate with those there to “liberate” them, for fear of angering the enemy and putting their lives in even more danger.
Whether the soldiers are engaged in a firefight or just attending to mundane maintenance tasks, there’s an undercurrent of constant danger in ARMADILLO that makes it pulse with tension.
Through his editing and use of a subtly
dramatic musical underscore, Metz gives ARMADILLO a throb of tension that the film intense and real.
http://ondemandweekly.com/blog/article/armadillo_-_award_winning_danish_war_documentary_on_demand
(Click to read the rest of the review & learn if _ARMADILLO...)
http://www.filmbuffondemand.com/movies/armadillo
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ARMADILLO - Award Winning Danish War Documentary On Demand
07/13/11_On Demand Weekly provides new movie reviews of hot movies on demand from the POV of watching from the comfort of your home.
Today’s review: ARMADILLO (FilmBuff) - Award Winning Danish War Documentary On Demand By Chris Claro_
A war documentary with the sheen of a fictional feature film, ARMADILLO is the harrowing account of a Danish unit’s descent into the depths of the war in Afghanistan. Director Janus Metz embedded himself with the platoon, recording their final days at home and following them into the treacherous Afghan countryside.
Metz and his cameraman, Lars Skree present a full picture of the lives of the soldiers, from the mind-numbing time off duty – filled with MREs, videogames, and Internet porn – to hazardous, unpredictable, and possibly deadly excursions into the mountains and deserts of Afghanistan.
Throughout, Metz reminds viewers that, despite the fact that the Danish soldiers are there to do “good,” the Taliban is such an insidious and pervasive force that Afghanis are unable to cooperate with those there to “liberate” them, for fear of angering the enemy and putting their lives in even more danger.
Whether the soldiers are engaged in a firefight or just attending to mundane maintenance tasks, there’s an undercurrent of constant danger in ARMADILLO that makes it pulse with tension.
Through his editing and use of a subtly
dramatic musical underscore, Metz gives ARMADILLO a throb of tension that the film intense and real.
http://ondemandweekly.com/blog/article/armadillo_-_award_winning_danish_war_documentary_on_demand
(Click to read the rest of the review & learn if _ARMADILLO...)
http://www.filmbuffondemand.com/movies/armadillo
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Press release
330 DAYS: THE UNCENSORED WAR IN IRAQ
Controversial New Book Delivers Groundbreaking Perspective on Iraq War
April 2011 (New York, NY) - Never before have civilians been able to fully appreciate a soldier’s perspective of the military campaign in Iraq. Powerful images of war, from suffering and death to courage and freedom, are ingrained forever in these soldiers’ minds.
330 Days: The Uncensored War in Iraq brings the reader to the front lines, revealing the evocative images of warfare. The 256-page photo documentary features uncut and uncensored original photographs from the war, accentuated by the harrowing stories told first-hand by the men who captured and lived through them.
Co-authored by Army Combat Enginer Pvt. Christopher Durante and Halliburton Contractor Julian Van Bellinghen, 330 Days: The Uncensored War in Iraq is a historical depiction seen through the eyes of those deployed on the ground in Iraq, allowing civilians an authentic glimpse into the chaos and comradeship in the midst of battle.
Uncut and uncensored, 330 Days: The Uncensored War in Iraq captures personal narratives of the heroes who fought in Iraq and delivers the graphic truth about war that provokes controversy and public discussion. The book is as enlightening as it is controversial about the most prolific topic of the last decade.
330 Days: The Uncensored War in Iraq is now available on Amazon.com and is being adapted for television in a groundbreaking docu-series.
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330 DAYS: THE UNCENSORED WAR IN IRAQ
Controversial New Book Delivers Groundbreaking Perspective on Iraq War
April 2011 (New York, NY) - Never before have civilians been able to fully appreciate a soldier’s perspective of the military campaign in Iraq. Powerful images of war, from suffering and death to courage and freedom, are ingrained forever in these soldiers’ minds.
330 Days: The Uncensored War in Iraq brings the reader to the front lines, revealing the evocative images of warfare. The 256-page photo documentary features uncut and uncensored original photographs from the war, accentuated by the harrowing stories told first-hand by the men who captured and lived through them.
Co-authored by Army Combat Enginer Pvt. Christopher Durante and Halliburton Contractor Julian Van Bellinghen, 330 Days: The Uncensored War in Iraq is a historical depiction seen through the eyes of those deployed on the ground in Iraq, allowing civilians an authentic glimpse into the chaos and comradeship in the midst of battle.
Uncut and uncensored, 330 Days: The Uncensored War in Iraq captures personal narratives of the heroes who fought in Iraq and delivers the graphic truth about war that provokes controversy and public discussion. The book is as enlightening as it is controversial about the most prolific topic of the last decade.
330 Days: The Uncensored War in Iraq is now available on Amazon.com and is being adapted for television in a groundbreaking docu-series.
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On Demand Weekly report - WARTORN: 1861-2010 - Produced by James Gandolfini - 12/10/10
Demand Weekly provides new movie reviews of hot movies on demand from the POV of watching from the comfort of your home.
Today’s review: WARTORN: 1861-2010 (HBO) By Jean Tait_
Let’s face it: it is not natural for a human being to kill another human being. Nor is it normal to see your friends and co-workers blown to bits. There is no way to go through a war and be unaffected. As long as there has been war, there has been Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
It just wasn’t always called that. In the Civil War it was Hysteria, Melancholia, and/or Insanity. In WWI it was Shell Shock. In WWII it was Battle Fatigue. After Vietnam it was You Stupid Homeless Loser, Get a Job.
But no matter what it’s called, it’s there. It not only affects soldiers, it affects their families and friends, too. It’s a terrible sickness, which is all the more difficult to treat because soldiers are expected to just tough it out. Hopefully, as awareness of it grows, more soldiers will get better treatment, and our fighting men and women will suffer less.
Read more »http://ondemandweekly.com/blog/article/wartorn_1861-2010
WARTORN: 1861-2010 is available on HBO On Demand
Rated TV-MA / 68 mins
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Demand Weekly provides new movie reviews of hot movies on demand from the POV of watching from the comfort of your home.
Today’s review: WARTORN: 1861-2010 (HBO) By Jean Tait_
Let’s face it: it is not natural for a human being to kill another human being. Nor is it normal to see your friends and co-workers blown to bits. There is no way to go through a war and be unaffected. As long as there has been war, there has been Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
It just wasn’t always called that. In the Civil War it was Hysteria, Melancholia, and/or Insanity. In WWI it was Shell Shock. In WWII it was Battle Fatigue. After Vietnam it was You Stupid Homeless Loser, Get a Job.
But no matter what it’s called, it’s there. It not only affects soldiers, it affects their families and friends, too. It’s a terrible sickness, which is all the more difficult to treat because soldiers are expected to just tough it out. Hopefully, as awareness of it grows, more soldiers will get better treatment, and our fighting men and women will suffer less.
Read more »http://ondemandweekly.com/blog/article/wartorn_1861-2010
WARTORN: 1861-2010 is available on HBO On Demand
Rated TV-MA / 68 mins
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Dvd offer - do your own homework
THEATER OF WAR
Documentary Featuring Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline &
Tony Kushner
MERYL STREEP IS AN UNFORGETTABLE MOTHER COURAGE in Tony Kushner's adaptation of the Brecht masterpiece, presented by The Public Theater/NY Shakespeare Festival in Central Park during summer 2006.
Filmmaker John Walter's earlier documentary, HOW TO DRAW A BUNNY, explored the psychological ramifications of the life and art of Ray Johnson. His new movie could easily have been a star vehicle for Streep and Kevin Kline.
Instead he digs deeply into Brecht's motives and politics, unearthing the playwright's famed (and famously clever) testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee (the day after which he quit the United States).
THEATER OF WAR is about theater and war, capitalism and Marxism, the postwar anti-Communist hysteria of the 1950s, and one literary genius's ability to make art from them all. -- Karen Cooper, Director, Film Forum.
NOW ON DVD
price: $22
DVD features include commentary from Michael Moore.
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ALL ORDERS WILL BE SHIPPED REGULAR USPS MAIL.
Expected delivery time: approximately 2 weeks from date of order.
Your credit card will not be charged until your order is shipped.
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THEATER OF WAR
Documentary Featuring Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline &
Tony Kushner
MERYL STREEP IS AN UNFORGETTABLE MOTHER COURAGE in Tony Kushner's adaptation of the Brecht masterpiece, presented by The Public Theater/NY Shakespeare Festival in Central Park during summer 2006.
Filmmaker John Walter's earlier documentary, HOW TO DRAW A BUNNY, explored the psychological ramifications of the life and art of Ray Johnson. His new movie could easily have been a star vehicle for Streep and Kevin Kline.
Instead he digs deeply into Brecht's motives and politics, unearthing the playwright's famed (and famously clever) testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee (the day after which he quit the United States).
THEATER OF WAR is about theater and war, capitalism and Marxism, the postwar anti-Communist hysteria of the 1950s, and one literary genius's ability to make art from them all. -- Karen Cooper, Director, Film Forum.
NOW ON DVD
price: $22
DVD features include commentary from Michael Moore.
Click here to order
[ https://boxoffice.printtixusa.com/filmforum/additem?c=&item=ZFElx3cNGLktTgiw ]
ALL ORDERS WILL BE SHIPPED REGULAR USPS MAIL.
Expected delivery time: approximately 2 weeks from date of order.
Your credit card will not be charged until your order is shipped.
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(Cambodia)-ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE Opens in NYC on July 30, 2010!
Press release
ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE
Opens in New York on Friday, July 30 at the Quad Cinema
International Film Circuit is pleased to present Rob Lemkin and Thet Sambath’s ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE, one of the most harrowing and compelling personal documentaries of our time. Winner of a Special Jury Prize at Sundance and the Grand Jury Award at the Full Frame Festival, ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE exposes for the first time the truth about the Killing Fields and the Khmer Rouge who were behind Cambodia’s genocide.
It is also an intimate journey into the heart of darkness by journalist Thet Sambath, whose family was wiped out in the Killing Fields, but whose patience and discipline elicits unprecedented on-camera confessions from perpetrators at all levels of the Khmer Rouge hierarchy. More than simply an inquiry into Cambodia’s experience, the film is a profound meditation on the nature of good and evil, shedding light on the capacity of some people to do terrible things and for others to forgive them.
ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE will open in New York on Friday, July 30 at the Quad Cinema, to coincide with the Phnom Penh premiere scheduled for July 21 and the verdict in the first Killing Fields trial, expected July 26. A national roll-out will follow.
In 1974, Thet Sambath’s father became one of the nearly two million people who were murdered by the Khmer Rouge. Sambath’s mother was forced to marry a Khmer Rouge militiaman and died in childbirth in 1976, while his eldest brother disappeared in 1977. Sambath himself escaped Cambodia at age 10 when the regime fell in 1979.
Fast forward to 1998, and Sambath, now a reporter with the Phnom Penh Post, got to know the children of some senior Khmer Rouge cadre and gradually earned their trust. Then, for a decade, he spent weekends visiting the home of the most senior surviving leader, Nuon Chea, aka Brother Number Two under Pol Pot. Over time, Nuon Chea began to reveal to him about the truth of the genocide, including details of the killing. Sambath also won the confidence of lower-level Khmer Rouge soldiers, now ordinary fathers and grandfathers, who demonstrated for him how they slit people’s throats. It was the first time these murderers admitted what they had done. He taped their interactions and, together with British documentarian Rob Lemkin, created this landmark film.
For Sambath, it has been a lifelong personal journey to discover what was behind such horror; he neglected both his family and his own happiness in the search for truth with hope of reconciliation. ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE is at once a cinematically beautiful, chillingly insightful, and deeply personal piece of documentary filmmaking.
94 mins. In English and Khmer with English subtitles. An International Film Circuit release. Unrated.
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ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE
Opens in New York on Friday, July 30 at the Quad Cinema
International Film Circuit is pleased to present Rob Lemkin and Thet Sambath’s ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE, one of the most harrowing and compelling personal documentaries of our time. Winner of a Special Jury Prize at Sundance and the Grand Jury Award at the Full Frame Festival, ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE exposes for the first time the truth about the Killing Fields and the Khmer Rouge who were behind Cambodia’s genocide.
It is also an intimate journey into the heart of darkness by journalist Thet Sambath, whose family was wiped out in the Killing Fields, but whose patience and discipline elicits unprecedented on-camera confessions from perpetrators at all levels of the Khmer Rouge hierarchy. More than simply an inquiry into Cambodia’s experience, the film is a profound meditation on the nature of good and evil, shedding light on the capacity of some people to do terrible things and for others to forgive them.
ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE will open in New York on Friday, July 30 at the Quad Cinema, to coincide with the Phnom Penh premiere scheduled for July 21 and the verdict in the first Killing Fields trial, expected July 26. A national roll-out will follow.
In 1974, Thet Sambath’s father became one of the nearly two million people who were murdered by the Khmer Rouge. Sambath’s mother was forced to marry a Khmer Rouge militiaman and died in childbirth in 1976, while his eldest brother disappeared in 1977. Sambath himself escaped Cambodia at age 10 when the regime fell in 1979.
Fast forward to 1998, and Sambath, now a reporter with the Phnom Penh Post, got to know the children of some senior Khmer Rouge cadre and gradually earned their trust. Then, for a decade, he spent weekends visiting the home of the most senior surviving leader, Nuon Chea, aka Brother Number Two under Pol Pot. Over time, Nuon Chea began to reveal to him about the truth of the genocide, including details of the killing. Sambath also won the confidence of lower-level Khmer Rouge soldiers, now ordinary fathers and grandfathers, who demonstrated for him how they slit people’s throats. It was the first time these murderers admitted what they had done. He taped their interactions and, together with British documentarian Rob Lemkin, created this landmark film.
For Sambath, it has been a lifelong personal journey to discover what was behind such horror; he neglected both his family and his own happiness in the search for truth with hope of reconciliation. ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE is at once a cinematically beautiful, chillingly insightful, and deeply personal piece of documentary filmmaking.
94 mins. In English and Khmer with English subtitles. An International Film Circuit release. Unrated.
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(2010) RESTREPO in Now Playing in select theaters!
Press release
RESTREPO
Winner – Documentary Grand Jury Prize, Sundance Film Festival
Opens in June 25, 2010 in NYC and LA
National Geographic Entertainment presents RESTREPO, the electrifying documentary by award-winning journalists Tim Hetherington (“Long Story Bit by Bit: Liberia Retold”) and Sebastian Junger (“The Perfect Storm,” the upcoming “War”).
Chronicling the deployment of a platoon of American soldiers at one of the most dangerous outposts in Afghanistan, RESTREPO captures the day-to-day reality of modern warfare as never seen before. Winner of the Grand Jury Prize for U.S. Documentary at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, the film will expand in July.
From June 2007 to July 2008, Hetherington and Junger embedded with the soldiers of Second Platoon, Battle Company in the remote Korengal Valley in eastern Afghanistan, as they fought to build and maintain a remote 15-man outpost named “Restrepo” after a platoon medic who was killed in action.
The filmmakers avoid all outside commentary and political context in order to present us war as it is actually lived by soldiers, through their own eyes and in their own words—the backbreaking labor, the deadly firefights, the boredom, the camaraderie. Presented as a 90-minute deployment, RESTREPO is documentary filmmaking at its most bracingly visceral.
Sebastian Junger has been reporting from Afghanistan since 1996. He is a contributing editor to Vanity Fair and the bestselling author of the “The Perfect Storm” and “A Death in Belmont.” His latest book, “War,” will be published by Twelve in May 2010 (www.twelvebooks.com). Photojournalist Tim Hetherington (“Long Story Bit by Bit: Liberia Retold”) has reported on conflict for over ten years. He was awarded the 2008 World Press Photo prize for his work in Afghanistan and is a contributing photographer to Vanity Fair.
94 minutes. A National Geographic Entertainment release.
MOVIE website-http://www.restrepothemovie.com/
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Tim Hetherington: Infidel
Infidel is an intimate portrait of a single U.S. platoon, assigned to an outpost in the Korengal Valley-an area considered one of the most dangerous Afghan postings in the war against the Taliban-but it is as much about love and male vulnerability as it is about bravery and war.
Embedded with writer Sebastian Junger, and shooting over the course of one year, photographer Tim Hetherington made a series of images that prove surprisingly tender in their depiction of camaraderie and vulnerability (among the most moving is a series of the platoon sleeping).
Alongside revealing interviews with Hetherington's subjects and an introduction by Junger (with whom Hetherington co-directed the award-winning filmRestrepo, about the work of the battalion), the book is also illustrated with graphics of the tattoos the soldiers gave each other in the camp.
The titleInfidelis taken from the tattoo the men adopted as a badge of their comradeship. Warm, moving and full of humor, this book is a tribute to the "rough men ready to do violence on our behalf" and a provocative contribution to the documentation of war in our time.
U.S. LIST PRICE: U.S. $35.00
CANADIAN PRICE: CAN $42
ISBN: 9781905712182
FORMAT: Flexi, 6 x 8.25 in. / 240 pgs / 200 color.
PUBLISHER: Chris Boot
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RESTREPO
Winner – Documentary Grand Jury Prize, Sundance Film Festival
Opens in June 25, 2010 in NYC and LA
National Geographic Entertainment presents RESTREPO, the electrifying documentary by award-winning journalists Tim Hetherington (“Long Story Bit by Bit: Liberia Retold”) and Sebastian Junger (“The Perfect Storm,” the upcoming “War”).
Chronicling the deployment of a platoon of American soldiers at one of the most dangerous outposts in Afghanistan, RESTREPO captures the day-to-day reality of modern warfare as never seen before. Winner of the Grand Jury Prize for U.S. Documentary at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, the film will expand in July.
From June 2007 to July 2008, Hetherington and Junger embedded with the soldiers of Second Platoon, Battle Company in the remote Korengal Valley in eastern Afghanistan, as they fought to build and maintain a remote 15-man outpost named “Restrepo” after a platoon medic who was killed in action.
The filmmakers avoid all outside commentary and political context in order to present us war as it is actually lived by soldiers, through their own eyes and in their own words—the backbreaking labor, the deadly firefights, the boredom, the camaraderie. Presented as a 90-minute deployment, RESTREPO is documentary filmmaking at its most bracingly visceral.
Sebastian Junger has been reporting from Afghanistan since 1996. He is a contributing editor to Vanity Fair and the bestselling author of the “The Perfect Storm” and “A Death in Belmont.” His latest book, “War,” will be published by Twelve in May 2010 (www.twelvebooks.com). Photojournalist Tim Hetherington (“Long Story Bit by Bit: Liberia Retold”) has reported on conflict for over ten years. He was awarded the 2008 World Press Photo prize for his work in Afghanistan and is a contributing photographer to Vanity Fair.
94 minutes. A National Geographic Entertainment release.
MOVIE website-http://www.restrepothemovie.com/
_________________________ADDENDUM:
Tim Hetherington: Infidel
Infidel is an intimate portrait of a single U.S. platoon, assigned to an outpost in the Korengal Valley-an area considered one of the most dangerous Afghan postings in the war against the Taliban-but it is as much about love and male vulnerability as it is about bravery and war.
Embedded with writer Sebastian Junger, and shooting over the course of one year, photographer Tim Hetherington made a series of images that prove surprisingly tender in their depiction of camaraderie and vulnerability (among the most moving is a series of the platoon sleeping).
Alongside revealing interviews with Hetherington's subjects and an introduction by Junger (with whom Hetherington co-directed the award-winning filmRestrepo, about the work of the battalion), the book is also illustrated with graphics of the tattoos the soldiers gave each other in the camp.
The titleInfidelis taken from the tattoo the men adopted as a badge of their comradeship. Warm, moving and full of humor, this book is a tribute to the "rough men ready to do violence on our behalf" and a provocative contribution to the documentation of war in our time.
U.S. LIST PRICE: U.S. $35.00
CANADIAN PRICE: CAN $42
ISBN: 9781905712182
FORMAT: Flexi, 6 x 8.25 in. / 240 pgs / 200 color.
PUBLISHER: Chris Boot
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THEATER OF WAR feat. Meryl Streep in Brecht's "Mother Courage" On DVD in October 2010!
LORBER FILMS RELEASES
THEATER OF WAR (2008)
FEATURING ACADEMY AWARD® WINNER MERYL STREEP
ON DVD OCTOBER 19, 2010
New York, NY - August 17, 2010 - Lorber Films is proud to announce the DVD release of the acclaimed documentary THEATER OF WAR (2008), directed by John Walter (How to Draw a Bunny - Winner, Special Jury Prize, Sundance Film Festival) and featuring Meryl Streep as the unforgettable Mother Courage.
Based on the New York Shakespeare Festival production of Bertolt Brecht's "Mother Courage and Her Children" in Central Park, THEATER OF WAR displays yet another facet to the brilliance of Streep, honored 16 Academy Award Nominations - and two wins.
As an exclusive special feature, this Lorber Films' DVD brings an audio commentary by Academy Award Winner Michael Moore (Bowling for Columbine). THEATER OF WAR is slated for October 19, 2010 release on DVD.
Filmmaker John Walter artfully captures Meryl Streep groping for - and then seizing - the character in her unforgettable portrayal of Mother Courage in Tony Kushner's adaptation of the Bertold Brecht masterpiece "Mother Courage and Her Children," which was presented by The Public Theater/NY Shakespeare Festival in Central Park in the summer of 2006.
Though this film could easily have been crafted into a star vehicle for Streep and Kevin Kline, Walter instead digs deeply into Brecht's motives and politics, unearthing the playwright's famed and famously clever testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee - the day after which he fled from the United States.
THEATER OF WAR is about theater and war, capitalism and Marxism, the postwar anti-Communist hysteria of the 1950s, and one literary genius's ability to make art from it all.
BONUS MATERIAL
· Commentary from Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Michael Moore
Theater of War (2008)
Directed by John Walter
16:9 Widescreen
95 Minutes
English and German with English subtitles
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THEATER OF WAR (2008)
FEATURING ACADEMY AWARD® WINNER MERYL STREEP
ON DVD OCTOBER 19, 2010
New York, NY - August 17, 2010 - Lorber Films is proud to announce the DVD release of the acclaimed documentary THEATER OF WAR (2008), directed by John Walter (How to Draw a Bunny - Winner, Special Jury Prize, Sundance Film Festival) and featuring Meryl Streep as the unforgettable Mother Courage.
Based on the New York Shakespeare Festival production of Bertolt Brecht's "Mother Courage and Her Children" in Central Park, THEATER OF WAR displays yet another facet to the brilliance of Streep, honored 16 Academy Award Nominations - and two wins.
As an exclusive special feature, this Lorber Films' DVD brings an audio commentary by Academy Award Winner Michael Moore (Bowling for Columbine). THEATER OF WAR is slated for October 19, 2010 release on DVD.
Filmmaker John Walter artfully captures Meryl Streep groping for - and then seizing - the character in her unforgettable portrayal of Mother Courage in Tony Kushner's adaptation of the Bertold Brecht masterpiece "Mother Courage and Her Children," which was presented by The Public Theater/NY Shakespeare Festival in Central Park in the summer of 2006.
Though this film could easily have been crafted into a star vehicle for Streep and Kevin Kline, Walter instead digs deeply into Brecht's motives and politics, unearthing the playwright's famed and famously clever testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee - the day after which he fled from the United States.
THEATER OF WAR is about theater and war, capitalism and Marxism, the postwar anti-Communist hysteria of the 1950s, and one literary genius's ability to make art from it all.
BONUS MATERIAL
· Commentary from Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Michael Moore
Theater of War (2008)
Directed by John Walter
16:9 Widescreen
95 Minutes
English and German with English subtitles
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