Green Zone
Nice action movie directed by Paul Greengrass and starred by Matt Damon. This time Matt is the “chief” at a US marines unit deployed in Irak. Matt is discontent with the fact that the intel he is getting in order to search and find for non conventional weapons, turns out to be of no value. (more…)
Angelina Jolie as Mariane Perl
Daniel Pearl was a happy American journalist, from a New Jersey Jewish family, serving as South Asia Bureau Chief of the Wall Street Journal in Mumbai. He traveled to Karachi, with his french wife and also journalist, Mariane (Van Neyenhoff), to cover the alleged connection between Richard Reid (the “shoe bomber”) and Al-Qaeda.
The movie based on the book of Mariane Pearl, Daniel Pearl’s widow, on the tragic and brutal capture of Daniel in Karachi, the huge port city of Pakistan, in 2002.
Daniel requested an interview with one of the well know and connected islamist militant named Sheikh Mubarak Ali Gilani, on its way to the restaurant were they were to meet, on February the 1st 2002, Daniel never returned and was captured by the The National Movement for the Restoration of Pakistani Sovereignty (NMRPS). (more…)
Vietnam Crucible
Vietnam Crucible is a documentary out from the US Army, totally censored I reckon as a response to the social despair and dis-conform felt in the american streets during this 10.000 days indo china conflict.
The real jewel of this piece of filmography relays on the rich footage of a powerful entity like the us army produced for the Office of the Chief of Information by the Army Pictorial Center, in a documentary called “The Big picture”. During my many tours through the Vietnam War films and documentaries, I found it hard to find in one piece a really one of a kind wide angle on many of the US Army activities in South Vietnam. (more…)
Lebanon
As usual, any Israeli film to be successful in any foreign country has to follow the formula of “try showing Israel as a real villain” and Lebanon is no exception.
Following the steps of Vals im Bashir (2008), a tank squad enters the Lebanon war of 82, as part of a paratroopers platoon. They will enter civil urban nucleus and will treat innocent civils as shit, for we all know israeli soldiers have a secret pact with Satan and they would commit all crimes against human kind (and animal kinds as well)… (more…)
Touching the void
Touching the Void is a 2003 documentary based on the book with the same title (1989 NCR Book Award) written by Joe Simpson.
Both book and documentary narrates the real tribulations of three Brits, two of them mountaineers: Joe Simpson and Simon Yate, and Richard Hawking, during their 1985 attempt on the conquering of an untouched mountain so far then: Peruvian Siula Grande (20,813 ft/ 6344 m.) by its West side. (more…)
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