Vineland Context--Filmmaker Collectives

[davemarc]

The Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center will be showing *Winter Soldier*
over the coming days.

Michael Atkinson praises the film in this week's Village Voice, calling it
"a rarely glimpsed document, shot and assembled by an anonymous filmmaking
collective of the 1971 'Winter Soldier Investigation.'"

Atkinson continues: "The resulting first-person-witness assault
demonstrates, in the fashion of *Shoah*, that being told can be more
lacerating than being shown; we experience not only the atrocities but the
shock waves felt by the witnesses and the emotional venom that still
necrotized their lives. Not that the sympathies lie only with the
terrifyingly calm and earnest speakers; every story is a story about farmers
butchered as a kind of sickened imperial bloodsport, and the bootprint the
movie leaves might be the deepest of any 'Nam doc."

Furthermore: "Of course, no news outlet would cover the event, and no
distributor or broadcaster would touch the film record. Whoever saw it in
1972 saw it at the Whitney; after that, only WNET threw it on once
unannounced as a replacement program. Otherwise, the 15
filmmakers--including Barbara Kopple and David Grubin--have had to host
private screenings themselves. So, what was intended to be a public turning
point in our knowledge of the war's true nature was effectively run
underground--which makes the film imperative viewing in 2005 (if not,
unfortunately, in 2002)....A *Winter Soldier* screening should be a voter
registration requirement."

http://www.villagevoice.com/film/0532,atkinson2,66679,20.html

https://tickets.filmlinc.com/php/calendar.php?sid=&org=&cmode=0&month=08&day
=13&year=2005#6689

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