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Vietnam

Film Review: “The Wake Up Call” — A New and Important Feature Documentary

Eric Neudel and Alison Gilkey found a tremendous subject for a documentary, and have told his tale with urgency and compassion.

By: Gerald Peary Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Alison Gilkey, Boston International Film Festival, Eric Neudel, The Wake Up Call, Vietnam, Vietnam-War

Book Review: Cowboys and the Wild East — “In the Dragon’s Shadow: Southeast Asia in the Chinese Century”

Proceeding largely country by country, Sebastian Strangio penetratingly explores Southeast Asia’s multifaceted struggle with its behemoth Chinese neighbor.

By: Justin Grosslight Filed Under: Books, Commentary, Review Tagged: Brunei, Burma, Cambodia, China, East Timor, Faisal Z. Ahmed, In the Dragon’s Shadow: Southeast Asia in the Chinese Century, Indonesia, Justin Grosslight, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Sebastian Strangio, Singapore, Southeast Asia, Thailand, Vietnam

Film Review: “F.T.A.” — An Anti-War Gem, Rediscovered

Exuding a guerilla theater, agitprop vibe (with touches here and there of vaudeville and live sketch comedy), F.T.A. is a thrilling expression of pacifism and accountability directed at the military.

By: Peg Aloi Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: documentary, Donald Sutherland, F.T.A., Jane Fonda, Vietnam

Film Review: Beware of “Last Days in Vietnam” — A Whitewash of the War

Contextualizing is everything. And that’s particularly true of Last Days in Vietnam, where the odious things Americans did there weigh down the ostensible heroics shown in our exiting the country.

By: Gerald Peary Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: An American Experience, Anti-war, documentary, Last Days in Vietnam, Rory Kennedy, Vietnam

Film Review: “Far From Vietnam” — A Remarkable Anti-War Film

Far From Vietnam dared say what no American documentary, even the most radical, would insinuate for fear of being accused of treason: in Vietnam, the Americans were the new Germans.

By: Gerald Peary Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: -Jean-Luc-Godard, Alain Resnais, Chris Marker, Claude Lelouch, documentary, Far From Vietnam, French cinema, Joris Ivens, Vietnam, William Klein

Movie Review: Black Power Mixtape 1967–1975 — Scattered, Skewed, But Engaging

This intriguing documentary, made up of first-hand footage about the Black Power movement, will air on WGBH’s Independent Lens this Thursday @ 10 p.m.

By: Harvey Blume Filed Under: Featured, Film Tagged: Black Panthers, Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975, Occupy Boston, Short Fuse, STokely Carmichael, Vietnam

Short Fuse: Dangerous Men

The major problem with these treatments of Timothy Leary and Daniel Ellsberg is that they portray their main characters as if there was no possible resonance between them, as if they came from different eras. The Harvard Psychedelic Club, by Don Lattin, HarperOne, 256 pages, $24.99. The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and […]

By: Harvey Blume Filed Under: Books, Featured Tagged: Daniel Ellsberg, documentary, Don Lattin, drugs, Film, LSD, Short Fuse, The Harvard Psychedelic Club, The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers, Timothy Leary, Vietnam

The Art of Being Eternally Hillary

The NY Times is running a series of articles about front-runners for the presidency. I’ve read the two about Hillary Clinton carefully, because I’m stuck about her. She’s someone I’d like to feel enthusiastic about but can’t. She always, to my mind, testifies strongly at first, then cancels herself out. She’s an enigma wrapped inside […]

By: Harvey Blume Filed Under: Books, Featured Tagged: Books, Hillary-Clinton, Iraq, Short Fuse, Vietnam, William-Jefferson-Clinton

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