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      <title>Film:Heavy Metal in Baghdad</title>
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<strong>Title:</strong> Heavy Metal in Baghdad<br/>
<strong>Year:</strong> 2008<br/>
<strong>Director:</strong> Eddy Moretti, Suroosh Alvi<br/>
<strong>Plot:</strong> VICE Magazine co-founder Suroosh Alvi and VICE Films head Eddy Moretti embark on a gonzo journey to meet Iraq's only heavy metal band in a freewheeling documentary focusing on youth culture in war-torn Iraq. In the summer of 2005, shortly after Saddam Hussein's brutal rule came to an end, Iraqi heavy metal group Acrassicauda (named after an especially venomous breed of black scorpion) teamed with VICE Magazine to stage a sold out rock concert. Over a year later, VICE co-founder Alvi and filmmaker Moretti travel back to the Middle Eastern country to find out how the war has affected the band. What they find upon arriving for their reunion with Acrassicauda is especially disturbing. These are the images that the network news refuses to run - the story of an entire generation who risk their lives simply by standing in the open, and who are driven from their homeland by bombs and machinegun fire. In order to even practice, the band would have to risk their lives by exposing themselves to both Iraqi snipers and suspicious coalition forces. Then again, after your studio has been bombed into the ground what's the point in rehearsing anyway? ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide<br/>
<strong>Times Tagged:</strong> 19<br/>
<strong>Number of Lists:</strong> 6<br/>
<strong>Number of blog posts:</strong> 7<br/>
<strong>Number of discussion threads:</strong> 1<br/>
<strong>SpoutRating:</strong> 3<br/>
</td></tr></table>]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 21:21:46 GMT</pubDate><spout:Title>Heavy Metal in Baghdad</spout:Title><spout:Year>2008</spout:Year><spout:Director>Eddy Moretti, Suroosh Alvi</spout:Director><spout:Plot>VICE Magazine co-founder Suroosh Alvi and VICE Films head Eddy Moretti embark on a gonzo journey to meet Iraq's only heavy metal band in a freewheeling documentary focusing on youth culture in war-torn Iraq. In the summer of 2005, shortly after Saddam Hussein's brutal rule came to an end, Iraqi heavy metal group Acrassicauda (named after an especially venomous breed of black scorpion) teamed with VICE Magazine to stage a sold out rock concert. Over a year later, VICE co-founder Alvi and filmmaker Moretti travel back to the Middle Eastern country to find out how the war has affected the band. What they find upon arriving for their reunion with Acrassicauda is especially disturbing. These are the images that the network news refuses to run - the story of an entire generation who risk their lives simply by standing in the open, and who are driven from their homeland by bombs and machinegun fire. In order to even practice, the band would have to risk their lives by exposing themselves to both Iraqi snipers and suspicious coalition forces. Then again, after your studio has been bombed into the ground what's the point in rehearsing anyway? ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide</spout:Plot><spout:TimesTagged>19</spout:TimesTagged><spout:taglevel>Tag Target (&gt;10)</spout:taglevel><spout:Numberoflists>6</spout:Numberoflists><spout:NumberOfBlogPosts>7</spout:NumberOfBlogPosts><spout:NumberOfDiscussionThreads>1</spout:NumberOfDiscussionThreads><spout:SpoutRating>3</spout:SpoutRating><spout:FilmCoverURL>http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/s347633.jpg</spout:FilmCoverURL><spout:SpoutFilmDetailURL>http://www.spout.com/films/Heavy_Metal_in_Baghdad/347633/default.aspx</spout:SpoutFilmDetailURL><spout:type>Film</spout:type></item>
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      <title>Spout Post: Heavy with guilt</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/blogs/lmstanley/archive/2008/8/5/33559.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div><img align='left' src='http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/s347633.jpg' hspace='10' style='height:80px;' />
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<strong>Post Date:</strong> 8/5/2008 11:03:47 AM<br/>
<strong>Body:</strong> Watching Heavy Metal in Baghdad left me heavy with guilt over the Iraq war. It's not so much that this movie is anti-American in any way...but I think that for the most part, I feel guilty over the fact that I didn't have a true perspective how the war affects Iraqi civilians. This film shows you life in a post-Saddam Iraq where the citizens are caught between the Americans and the insurgency. With no where to go, this films travels the lives of heavy metal band members as they fight to make a living and pursue their music all while trying to just stay alive. I&rsquo;d really love to figure out where these guys are today. I&rsquo;m wondering how these past two years since the movie was made has changed these guys&rsquo; fortune. I&rsquo;d love<br/>
</div>]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 15:03:47 GMT</pubDate><spout:postby>lmstanley</spout:postby><spout:postto>lmstanley Blog</spout:postto><spout:postdate>8/5/2008 11:03:47 AM</spout:postdate><spout:body>Watching Heavy Metal in Baghdad left me heavy with guilt over the Iraq war. It's not so much that this movie is anti-American in any way...but I think that for the most part, I feel guilty over the fact that I didn't have a true perspective how the war affects Iraqi civilians. This film shows you life in a post-Saddam Iraq where the citizens are caught between the Americans and the insurgency. With no where to go, this films travels the lives of heavy metal band members as they fight to make a living and pursue their music all while trying to just stay alive. I&amp;rsquo;d really love to figure out where these guys are today. I&amp;rsquo;m wondering how these past two years since the movie was made has changed these guys&amp;rsquo; fortune. I&amp;rsquo;d love</spout:body></item>
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      <title>Spout Post: Bombs Over Baghdad: Heavy Metal in Baghdad</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/blogs/seely/archive/2008/8/1/33419.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div><img align='left' src='http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/s347633.jpg' hspace='10' style='height:80px;' />
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<strong>Post Date:</strong> 8/1/2008 4:31:18 PM<br/>
<strong>Body:</strong> I thought I knew what to expect when I heard our office movie was going to be "Heavy Metal in Baghdad".  I'll admit it--I'm suffering heavily from war-coverage burnout, and to sit through two hours of war and political propoganda did not hold any appeal. The film surprised me.  It was largely non-political, and seemed intent on telling the story of Arracussidia, Baghdad's only heavy metal band to date.  The film put a human face on the Iraqi civilians caught in the midst of war.  The passion of the band for their music and for their country was moving, to say the least.  The hardships Arracussidia had to overcome to play just six shows (over the course of several years!), and the risks that both they and their fans took really gave perspective to our freedoms we take for granted.  We balk at a $15 ticket, when really we should be amazed we even have the option of going to see a band at all. For so many of us, music is just something to put on when we are at work or cleaning the house to make the day go a little faster.  For these Iraqi's, it was truly the tangible manifestations of hope and freedom.<br/>
</div>]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 20:31:18 GMT</pubDate><spout:postby>seely</spout:postby><spout:postto>seely</spout:postto><spout:postdate>8/1/2008 4:31:18 PM</spout:postdate><spout:body>I thought I knew what to expect when I heard our office movie was going to be "Heavy Metal in Baghdad".  I'll admit it--I'm suffering heavily from war-coverage burnout, and to sit through two hours of war and political propoganda did not hold any appeal. The film surprised me.  It was largely non-political, and seemed intent on telling the story of Arracussidia, Baghdad's only heavy metal band to date.  The film put a human face on the Iraqi civilians caught in the midst of war.  The passion of the band for their music and for their country was moving, to say the least.  The hardships Arracussidia had to overcome to play just six shows (over the course of several years!), and the risks that both they and their fans took really gave perspective to our freedoms we take for granted.  We balk at a $15 ticket, when really we should be amazed we even have the option of going to see a band at all. For so many of us, music is just something to put on when we are at work or cleaning the house to make the day go a little faster.  For these Iraqi's, it was truly the tangible manifestations of hope and freedom.</spout:body></item>
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      <title>Spout Post: dont' change the channel</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/blogs/magrebi/archive/2008/7/31/33335.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div><img align='left' src='http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/s347633.jpg' hspace='10' style='height:80px;' />
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<strong>Post Date:</strong> 7/31/2008 12:19:40 PM<br/>
<strong>Body:</strong> I wish I could remember the names of the guys that make up Acrassicauda, given that I'm somewhat horrible with names I'm not even going to try. Eddy Moretti (got that name right) the director, sets out to make a documentary about a metal group in Baghdad, and in doing so he does a great job of showing the viewer the passion that these men have to play their music to the backdrop of complete chaos and devastating violence. If you think about it, it makes perfect sense. Metal music in a war zone? Fitting. To some degree these guys are more legit than Slipknot or Slayer (yes, I said it). Not that you need an excuse to play your music, but after watching this film it almost make me feel guilty for making excuses for my "hard" or "complicated" life and it makes me wonder about the legitimacy of Slipknot screaming about some girl or satan or whatever they sing about these days. I really liked this film because the unique story Moretti tells, but what really drew me in was that it put a face on the Iraq war. Unlike many Iraq documentaries before and after, it doesn't set out to make a political point albeit Moretti has one. But his political bias is not the focus of the film which makes his work shine. I can't even count the amount of docu films that are just so blatantly bias and are marketed as fact, when it is quite evident that it is not. I understand that when someone is telling a story it is impossible to get away from the story tellers bias no matter how hard she/he tries to keep bias out of it. But I believe that we've come to deposit too much stock in these stories (thank you Michael Moore) and take them at face value without too much questioning. Anyway, enough of that... Moretti does a good job trying to focus on the band and their perspective of what is happening to them and their country without interjecting his own conclusions too much. For me the most poignant part of the film was the last couple of frames. The band members sit down to watch a rough cut of the footage that Moretti has already spliced together. After the scene in which the band's practice spot is shown to be bombed out, one of the band members emotionally breaks before our eyes, and lets out: "This is the time you [while pointing at the camera] change the fucking channel or turn off the tv. How dare you! this is the time where you cannot be bothered with this... Pigs." I don't know if he was talking to Moretti, which I don't think he was. But I took it that he was speaking directly to me, the people watching the film, the American's watching the news broadcast on the Tele that turn it off when they hear of the latest car bomb going off. I didn't sense animosity directed at America from the band, but a severe sense of frustration about the situation that Iraq was/is going through. Which in turn forces me to think about what my country has done in the last five years. With that said, I believe it is a problem- whenever I watch these kind of movies, the people I'm around start squawking  about how unjust the war is, why we went there in the first place... blah blah blah. Singing to the choir and everyone feels good about themselves because they "understand" Iraq. Perhaps it aliviates guilt. Fuck that. What is done is done. Nothing is really served by revisiting that now, and from what I gather from these band members that isn't what they want either. Rather, from those last couple of frames, they are wanting America to take responsibility for what has happened and not walk away now that the damage is done. Don't turn the TV off when Iraq is in the news. I guess that what happens when you put a face to a war that no one understands, at the risk of sounding preachy, but I feel a huge sense of responsibility and respect towards the Iraqi people... With the election season in full swing it is hard for me to think what these band members think when they hear the calls from Americans to get out as soon as possible or on the flip side staying for 100 years. Oh wait... this is boring, let's change the channel.<br/>
</div>]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:19:40 GMT</pubDate><spout:postby>magrebi</spout:postby><spout:postto>magrebi Blog</spout:postto><spout:postdate>7/31/2008 12:19:40 PM</spout:postdate><spout:body>I wish I could remember the names of the guys that make up Acrassicauda, given that I'm somewhat horrible with names I'm not even going to try. Eddy Moretti (got that name right) the director, sets out to make a documentary about a metal group in Baghdad, and in doing so he does a great job of showing the viewer the passion that these men have to play their music to the backdrop of complete chaos and devastating violence. If you think about it, it makes perfect sense. Metal music in a war zone? Fitting. To some degree these guys are more legit than Slipknot or Slayer (yes, I said it). Not that you need an excuse to play your music, but after watching this film it almost make me feel guilty for making excuses for my "hard" or "complicated" life and it makes me wonder about the legitimacy of Slipknot screaming about some girl or satan or whatever they sing about these days. I really liked this film because the unique story Moretti tells, but what really drew me in was that it put a face on the Iraq war. Unlike many Iraq documentaries before and after, it doesn't set out to make a political point albeit Moretti has one. But his political bias is not the focus of the film which makes his work shine. I can't even count the amount of docu films that are just so blatantly bias and are marketed as fact, when it is quite evident that it is not. I understand that when someone is telling a story it is impossible to get away from the story tellers bias no matter how hard she/he tries to keep bias out of it. But I believe that we've come to deposit too much stock in these stories (thank you Michael Moore) and take them at face value without too much questioning. Anyway, enough of that... Moretti does a good job trying to focus on the band and their perspective of what is happening to them and their country without interjecting his own conclusions too much. For me the most poignant part of the film was the last couple of frames. The band members sit down to watch a rough cut of the footage that Moretti has already spliced together. After the scene in which the band's practice spot is shown to be bombed out, one of the band members emotionally breaks before our eyes, and lets out: "This is the time you [while pointing at the camera] change the fucking channel or turn off the tv. How dare you! this is the time where you cannot be bothered with this... Pigs." I don't know if he was talking to Moretti, which I don't think he was. But I took it that he was speaking directly to me, the people watching the film, the American's watching the news broadcast on the Tele that turn it off when they hear of the latest car bomb going off. I didn't sense animosity directed at America from the band, but a severe sense of frustration about the situation that Iraq was/is going through. Which in turn forces me to think about what my country has done in the last five years. With that said, I believe it is a problem- whenever I watch these kind of movies, the people I'm around start squawking  about how unjust the war is, why we went there in the first place... blah blah blah. Singing to the choir and everyone feels good about themselves because they "understand" Iraq. Perhaps it aliviates guilt. Fuck that. What is done is done. Nothing is really served by revisiting that now, and from what I gather from these band members that isn't what they want either. Rather, from those last couple of frames, they are wanting America to take responsibility for what has happened and not walk away now that the damage is done. Don't turn the TV off when Iraq is in the news. I guess that what happens when you put a face to a war that no one understands, at the risk of sounding preachy, but I feel a huge sense of responsibility and respect towards the Iraqi people... With the election season in full swing it is hard for me to think what these band members think when they hear the calls from Americans to get out as soon as possible or on the flip side staying for 100 years. Oh wait... this is boring, let's change the channel.</spout:body></item>
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      <title>Spout Post: Heavy Metal in Baghdad</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/blogs/csprague/archive/2008/7/31/33334.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div><img align='left' src='http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/s347633.jpg' hspace='10' style='height:80px;' />
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<strong>Post Date:</strong> 7/31/2008 12:17:31 PM<br/>
<strong>Body:</strong> Heavy Metal in Baghdad delivered an unexpectedly candid look inside the war zone and all the people who are caught in the middle of a conflict that has nothing to do with them. There are no sides in the war for them, just fear, paranoia, chaos, and death. Their lives are destroyed along with the society, culture, and neighborhoods in which they grew up. It's so hard to honestly take in the amount of hopelessness and contempt a lot of people wrestle with everyday. It's their music that keeps them from turning into the thing they hate and they openly admit it. It's as if art tempers the chaos; makes the darkness manageable. We watch a lot of Iraq war docs here at Spout, but this one seems so much more important simple because it's about people and not administrations. I think it's our best shot at becoming involved with our global neighbors, to see them and be with them and join them in their context. I will certainly vote for change abroad, but I wonder what it might do to connect directly with people who are displaced and dying on the other side of the world. What difference would that make for them? or for us? I wonder if it's possible to stop so much senseless violence and death.<br/>
</div>]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:17:31 GMT</pubDate><spout:postby>csprague</spout:postby><spout:postto>Bloggity Blah Blah Blog</spout:postto><spout:postdate>7/31/2008 12:17:31 PM</spout:postdate><spout:body>Heavy Metal in Baghdad delivered an unexpectedly candid look inside the war zone and all the people who are caught in the middle of a conflict that has nothing to do with them. There are no sides in the war for them, just fear, paranoia, chaos, and death. Their lives are destroyed along with the society, culture, and neighborhoods in which they grew up. It's so hard to honestly take in the amount of hopelessness and contempt a lot of people wrestle with everyday. It's their music that keeps them from turning into the thing they hate and they openly admit it. It's as if art tempers the chaos; makes the darkness manageable. We watch a lot of Iraq war docs here at Spout, but this one seems so much more important simple because it's about people and not administrations. I think it's our best shot at becoming involved with our global neighbors, to see them and be with them and join them in their context. I will certainly vote for change abroad, but I wonder what it might do to connect directly with people who are displaced and dying on the other side of the world. What difference would that make for them? or for us? I wonder if it's possible to stop so much senseless violence and death.</spout:body></item>
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      <title>Spout Post: Blogging Berlin 02/14/08</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/blogs/karina/archive/2008/2/14/25152.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div><img align='left' src='http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/s347633.jpg' hspace='10' style='height:80px;' />
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<strong>Post Date:</strong> 2/14/2008 5:00:43 PM<br/>
<strong>Body:</strong> 
Jurgen Fauth has nothing but praise for Heavy Metal in Baghdad (we felt pretty much the same when we saw it in Toronto), the screening of which, Jurgen says, “was so oversold that I ended up in the front row, effectively watching a distorted fun house mirror version of Suroosh Alvi and Eddy Moretti’s documentary.”
“Most of the European critics came down pretty hard on Petri Kotwica’s Black Ice, a film in competition from Finland,” notes Filmbrain, “But I found this deliciously dark drama about dangerous deceptions to be a good bit of trashy fun.” Mr. Grant is far less enthusiastic about In Love We Trust and Just Anybody.
Daniel Kasman is not entirely sold on Guy Maddin’s My Winnipeg, but he concedes “Maddin???s humor comes through perhaps stronger in this film than any other (he narrates himself, with dialog by regular collaborator George Toles), pushing an obsessive, if not repetitive, theme of the life of a city and the life of a boy being an inescapable series of traumatic, almost unreal conflicts and co-minglings of unreturnable pasts and their dream-like traces in the present.” Also at The Auteurs Notebook: an extremely memorable one-liner from Klaus Kinski’s “notorious one man show,” Jesus Christ Saviour.
3..2…1…and the Filth and Wisdom backlash has arrived.
 Originally posted on:SpoutBlog » karina<br/>
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Jurgen Fauth has nothing but praise for Heavy Metal in Baghdad (we felt pretty much the same when we saw it in Toronto), the screening of which, Jurgen says, “was so oversold that I ended up in the front row, effectively watching a distorted fun house mirror version of Suroosh Alvi and Eddy Moretti’s documentary.”
“Most of the European critics came down pretty hard on Petri Kotwica’s Black Ice, a film in competition from Finland,” notes Filmbrain, “But I found this deliciously dark drama about dangerous deceptions to be a good bit of trashy fun.” Mr. Grant is far less enthusiastic about In Love We Trust and Just Anybody.
Daniel Kasman is not entirely sold on Guy Maddin’s My Winnipeg, but he concedes “Maddin???s humor comes through perhaps stronger in this film than any other (he narrates himself, with dialog by regular collaborator George Toles), pushing an obsessive, if not repetitive, theme of the life of a city and the life of a boy being an inescapable series of traumatic, almost unreal conflicts and co-minglings of unreturnable pasts and their dream-like traces in the present.” Also at The Auteurs Notebook: an extremely memorable one-liner from Klaus Kinski’s “notorious one man show,” Jesus Christ Saviour.
3..2…1…and the Filth and Wisdom backlash has arrived.
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<strong>Post Date:</strong> 2/14/2008 5:00:30 PM<br/>
<strong>Body:</strong> 
Jurgen Fauth has nothing but praise for Heavy Metal in Baghdad (we felt pretty much the same when we saw it in Toronto), the screening of which, Jurgen says, “was so oversold that I ended up in the front row, effectively watching a distorted fun house mirror version of Suroosh Alvi and Eddy Moretti’s documentary.”
“Most of the European critics came down pretty hard on Petri Kotwica’s Black Ice, a film in competition from Finland,” notes Filmbrain, “But I found this deliciously dark drama about dangerous deceptions to be a good bit of trashy fun.” Mr. Grant is far less enthusiastic about In Love We Trust and Just Anybody.
Daniel Kasman is not entirely sold on Guy Maddin’s My Winnipeg, but he concedes “Maddin???s humor comes through perhaps stronger in this film than any other (he narrates himself, with dialog by regular collaborator George Toles), pushing an obsessive, if not repetitive, theme of the life of a city and the life of a boy being an inescapable series of traumatic, almost unreal conflicts and co-minglings of unreturnable pasts and their dream-like traces in the present.” Also at The Auteurs Notebook: an extremely memorable one-liner from Klaus Kinski’s “notorious one man show,” Jesus Christ Saviour.
3..2…1…and the Filth and Wisdom backlash has arrived.
 Originally posted on:SpoutBlog<br/>
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Jurgen Fauth has nothing but praise for Heavy Metal in Baghdad (we felt pretty much the same when we saw it in Toronto), the screening of which, Jurgen says, “was so oversold that I ended up in the front row, effectively watching a distorted fun house mirror version of Suroosh Alvi and Eddy Moretti’s documentary.”
“Most of the European critics came down pretty hard on Petri Kotwica’s Black Ice, a film in competition from Finland,” notes Filmbrain, “But I found this deliciously dark drama about dangerous deceptions to be a good bit of trashy fun.” Mr. Grant is far less enthusiastic about In Love We Trust and Just Anybody.
Daniel Kasman is not entirely sold on Guy Maddin’s My Winnipeg, but he concedes “Maddin???s humor comes through perhaps stronger in this film than any other (he narrates himself, with dialog by regular collaborator George Toles), pushing an obsessive, if not repetitive, theme of the life of a city and the life of a boy being an inescapable series of traumatic, almost unreal conflicts and co-minglings of unreturnable pasts and their dream-like traces in the present.” Also at The Auteurs Notebook: an extremely memorable one-liner from Klaus Kinski’s “notorious one man show,” Jesus Christ Saviour.
3..2…1…and the Filth and Wisdom backlash has arrived.
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      <title>Spout Post: FilmCouch #38</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/blogs/paul/archive/2007/12/21/23089.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div><img align='left' src='http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/s347633.jpg' hspace='10' style='height:80px;' />
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<strong>Post Date:</strong> 12/21/2007 4:16:04 PM<br/>
<strong>Body:</strong> Movies are a great way to explore the risk we never took. INTO THE WILD opens tonight, Sean Penn shares the story of first reading the book from an interview in Telluride. We also look at THE MOSQUITO COAST (1986, Peter Weir), starring Harrison Ford, and what these films tell us about breaking from civilization and doing the unthinkable. Karina interviews the makers of HEAVY METAL IN BAGHDAD and it becomes clear why she wrote “I don???t care how tired of Iraq documentaries you think you are???you need to see Heavy Metal in Baghdad.”

FilmCouch #38
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Into the Wild, The Mosquito Coast, Heavy Metal in Baghdad
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</div>]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 21 Dec 2007 21:16:04 GMT</pubDate><spout:postby>paul</spout:postby><spout:postto>paul on spout.com</spout:postto><spout:postdate>12/21/2007 4:16:04 PM</spout:postdate><spout:body>Movies are a great way to explore the risk we never took. INTO THE WILD opens tonight, Sean Penn shares the story of first reading the book from an interview in Telluride. We also look at THE MOSQUITO COAST (1986, Peter Weir), starring Harrison Ford, and what these films tell us about breaking from civilization and doing the unthinkable. Karina interviews the makers of HEAVY METAL IN BAGHDAD and it becomes clear why she wrote “I don???t care how tired of Iraq documentaries you think you are???you need to see Heavy Metal in Baghdad.”

FilmCouch #38
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Into the Wild, The Mosquito Coast, Heavy Metal in Baghdad
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<strong>Body:</strong> Movies are a great way to explore the risk we never took. INTO THE WILD opens tonight, Sean Penn shares the story of first reading the book from an interview in Telluride. We also look at THE MOSQUITO COAST (1986, Peter Weir), starring Harrison Ford, and what these films tell us about breaking from civilization and doing the unthinkable. Karina interviews the makers of HEAVY METAL IN BAGHDAD and it becomes clear why she wrote &quot;I don&rsquo;t care how tired of Iraq documentaries you think you are&ndash;you need to see Heavy Metal in Baghdad.&quot;    FilmCouch #38  Subscribe in the iTunes store and a new free episode will download every Friday.<br/>
</div>]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2007 16:09:11 GMT</pubDate><spout:postby>paul</spout:postby><spout:postto>FilmCouch</spout:postto><spout:postdate>9/21/2007 12:09:11 PM</spout:postdate><spout:body>Movies are a great way to explore the risk we never took. INTO THE WILD opens tonight, Sean Penn shares the story of first reading the book from an interview in Telluride. We also look at THE MOSQUITO COAST (1986, Peter Weir), starring Harrison Ford, and what these films tell us about breaking from civilization and doing the unthinkable. Karina interviews the makers of HEAVY METAL IN BAGHDAD and it becomes clear why she wrote &amp;quot;I don&amp;rsquo;t care how tired of Iraq documentaries you think you are&amp;ndash;you need to see Heavy Metal in Baghdad.&amp;quot;    FilmCouch #38  Subscribe in the iTunes store and a new free episode will download every Friday.</spout:body></item>
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