war
Korengal
‘Restropo’ was an extraordinary documentary which was the ultimate in cinema vérité and the work of two intrepid and fearless filmmakers who chose to live through a grueling 14-month tour of duty with a company of American solders in one of the most dangerous parts of Afghanistan. It won Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger a Best Documentary Oscar…
TWICE BORN
This mini-epic war melodrama starts when all the action is over and middle-aged Gemma is having breakfast with her husband in their rather comfortable home in Italy when the phone rings. It’s an old friend who is inviting her to a special Photography Exhibit in Sarajevo. Not much is spoken between the couple after she…
THE PATIENCE STONE
In a decrepit bomb-damaged house in a war-torn country ….probably Afghanistan ……an unnamed young woman in her mid thirties is struggling to take care of her two young children and also her much older husband who was seriously wounded in a battle. A bullet in his neck has reduced him to a comatose state, and…
THE ACT OF KILLING
The subject of Joshua Oppenheimer’s fiercely compelling documentary is definitely one of the most evil and sadistic acts of genocide that I have ever seen on the silver screen. It tells some of the stories of the Indonesian death squads of the mid 1960’s who tortured and killed over one million ‘communists’ at the behest…
