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Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2012: #85. Eugene Jarecki’s The House I Live In

With solid samples such as The Trials of Henry Kissinger and Why We Fight in his filmography, it’ll be a nice change of pace for Eugene Jarecki, as he moves slightly off topic concentrating on those at the bottom, and not the top.

Eric Lavallée

Published on January 4, 2012

#85. The House I Live In

Director: Eugene Jarecki
Producers: Jarecki and Melinda Shopsin
Distributor: Rights Available

The Gist: While the Iraq War rages, another war continues, unnoticed, barely reported, and yet it has taken more lives than the war, destroyed more families, orphaned more children, and, like the war, holds significant implications for the future of American society. America’s War on Drugs has deep roots in the country’s history.…(more)

List Worthy Reasons…: With solid samples such as The Trials of Henry Kissinger and Why We Fight in his filmography, it’ll be a nice change of pace for Eugene Jarecki, as he moves slightly off topic concentrating on those at the bottom, and not the top.

Release Date/Status?: Premiering in Park City this month in Sundance’s U.S Docu Comp, this should get picked up and shown theatrically if it carries the critical praise such as his 2005 film, Why We Fight.

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Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).