Pierre-Alexandre Despatis

[Ed's note: Vanity Fair. I buy the Hollywood issue every year and I love the magazine for the articles (that sounds like the excuse I had when my mom caught me with Playboy). Below you'll find more than a baker's dozen of folks who ate shrimp cocktails and collected souvenirs for their hard working publicists. Enjoy!]

WINDOWSSomewhere between experimental cinema and narrative film is a little and strange film called WINDOWS. The film is composed of 9 stories revolving...

[ Ed's note: Pictured above was a protest of sorts that took place in front of the theatre. Check out both sites for further info.! While there seems to be family members that grieve for the victims of United 93, what ever happen to those who lost their lives in the fake pentagon Boeing 757 crash. Now that’s a movie I want to see!]

Extremely moving, THE BLOOD OF MY BROTHER probably has the most intense footage of the war in Iraq ever put on film. In the real footage, a group of people target an American helicopter with a rocket launcher. The helicopter goes down and for a few minutes, its total mayhem in the streets. The way the action was filmed is amazing ... it makes you feel that you were there! The documentary isn't flawless; while the main story of young boy who lost his brother is profoundly touching and revolting, the doc goes all over the place and included by far too many narrative items. War footage, interviews with the family of the young dead guys, an American military raid, etc. For example, at some point we see a sheep being sacrificed and, near the end of the film, a young girl talk about the fact that she used to like housework and that she didn't have anything to do outside the house. How are those related to the main subject of the film? Nonetheless, the film is worth seeing for it’s unflinching footage, yet it needed a more lucid story structure.

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