Let us take a moment to consider those who have been impacted most by the pandemic. Not women, who are dropping out of the workforce like flies; not people of color, who are disproportionately affected by Covid-19 and live in constant fear of becoming the victims of police violence; and not low-income children and students with special needs, who are struggling to receive the bare bones of an education in a remote learning setting. Spare a thought for the real victims of 2020: the men who are caught cranking their hogs on Zoom.
- 10/20/2020
- by EJ Dickson
- Rollingstone.com
Barcelona — Hernán Zin’s latest documentary “Dying to Tell,” a best doc winner at September’s Montreal World Film Festival and last month’s Valladolid Intl. Film Festival, chronicles the aims and personal cost of war correspondents.
Zin has spent more than 20 years in the world’s fiercest conflict zones –Bosnia, Sierra Leona, Rwanda, Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan– along with Spanish comrades, several of them dead due to tragic circumstances –Julio Anguita, Ricardo Ortega, Julio Fuentes, José Couso and Miguel Gil. In 2012 in Afghanistan, Zin suffered a panic attack and decided it was time to stop. “Dying to Tell” is the result of that break.
The film is produced by his company Contramedia Films with Quexito Films and Spanish pubcaster Rtve. Zin talked with Variety about the cost of his career,
There’s a sentence in the film –”all that dies within us to tell a story.” What has been the personal cost of your job?...
Zin has spent more than 20 years in the world’s fiercest conflict zones –Bosnia, Sierra Leona, Rwanda, Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan– along with Spanish comrades, several of them dead due to tragic circumstances –Julio Anguita, Ricardo Ortega, Julio Fuentes, José Couso and Miguel Gil. In 2012 in Afghanistan, Zin suffered a panic attack and decided it was time to stop. “Dying to Tell” is the result of that break.
The film is produced by his company Contramedia Films with Quexito Films and Spanish pubcaster Rtve. Zin talked with Variety about the cost of his career,
There’s a sentence in the film –”all that dies within us to tell a story.” What has been the personal cost of your job?...
- 11/22/2018
- by Emilio Mayorga
- Variety Film + TV
As will always be the case with humanity, the search for black and white answers will come before examining something as a whole and realizing there are several vantage points from which something can be observed. It's the reason Siskel and Ebert offered thumbs up or thumbs down and the reason RottenTomatoes.com is more popular than MetaCritic.com. Why give me a number that doesn't say "good" or "bad" when I can look at an arbitrary picture of a ripe tomato or splattered green one? Society wants easy answers to tough questions and when they don't get them, they look for them and do their very best to fit a square peg into a round hole. Such is the case with Kathryn Bigelow's Zero Dark Thirty... and the film hasn't even hit theaters yet. The ridiculousness hit a tipping point on this site over the weekend when one...
- 12/17/2012
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
As it turns out, the film as a political statement is worse than even its harshest early critics warned
(updated below)
I've now seen "Zero Dark Thirty". Before getting to that: the controversy triggered this week by my commentary on the debate over that film was one of the most ridiculous in which I've ever been involved. It was astounding to watch critics of what I wrote just pretend that I had simply invented or "guessed at" the only point of the film I discussed - that it falsely depicted torture as valuable in finding bin Laden - all while concealing from their readers the ample factual bases I cited: namely, the fact that countless writers, almost unanimously, categorically stated that the film showed exactly this (see here for a partial list of reviewers and commentators who made this factual statement definitively about the film - that it depicts torture...
(updated below)
I've now seen "Zero Dark Thirty". Before getting to that: the controversy triggered this week by my commentary on the debate over that film was one of the most ridiculous in which I've ever been involved. It was astounding to watch critics of what I wrote just pretend that I had simply invented or "guessed at" the only point of the film I discussed - that it falsely depicted torture as valuable in finding bin Laden - all while concealing from their readers the ample factual bases I cited: namely, the fact that countless writers, almost unanimously, categorically stated that the film showed exactly this (see here for a partial list of reviewers and commentators who made this factual statement definitively about the film - that it depicts torture...
- 12/14/2012
- by Glenn Greenwald
- The Guardian - Film News
Kathryn Bigelow’s hunt-for-bin Laden movie Zero Dark Thirty (out in select theaters Dec. 19) doesn’t flinch when it comes to depicting various “enhanced interrogation” tactics, including waterboarding and other hard-to-watch techniques. In the film, C.I.A. agents Maya (Jessica Chastain) and Dan (Jason Clarke) engage in extended harsh sessions in order to extract crucial information that eventually leads to Osama bin Laden’s location.
But now some people are questioning the film’s treatment of those scenes. In a column in yesterday’s New York Times, Frank Bruni pointed out that the idea that those sorts of tactics...
But now some people are questioning the film’s treatment of those scenes. In a column in yesterday’s New York Times, Frank Bruni pointed out that the idea that those sorts of tactics...
- 12/10/2012
- by Rob Brunner
- EW - Inside Movies
Dexter Filkins, a war correspondent in Iraq and Afghanistan, says Kathryn Bigelow's "Zero Dark Thirty" appears to have "strayed from real life" in a waterboarding scene. In the latest issue of The New Yorker, Filkins details Bigelow's efforts to accurately portray the hunt for Osama bin Laden -- including consulting with Navy SEALs and CIA staff who took part. The film is considered a top contender for the Best Picture Oscar, which will only bring more scrutiny over its accuracy. The question of whether waterboarding actually helped lead to bin Laden's killing...
- 12/10/2012
- by Tim Molloy
- The Wrap
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