Nanking (2007)

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Directed by Bill Guttentag, Dan Sturman.

Starring Rosalind Chao, Stephen Dorff, John Getz, Woody Harrelson, Jürgen Prochnow, Mariel Hemingway, Hugo Armstrong.

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Filmmaker Bill Guttentag takes a closer look at the atrocities committed by the Japanese after Nanking fell to the Imperial Japanese Army in 1937 with this documentary that was inspired by Iris Chang's novel The Rape of Nanking. Compiled from over 700 hours of footage including news-reel footage, interviews with survivors and soldiers, and staged readings, Nanking was financed in large by millionaire Ted Leonsis, who had read Chang's obituary and subsequently been prompted to read the author's best-selling account of the massacre. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide

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"Nanking The Raping of Nanking isn’t a figure of speech to the people in Nanking. Narrated by actors but made of primarily of firsthand accounts by survivors of the Nanking atrocities, Nanking is bound to educate, enlighten and horrify. In 1937, long before the Americans entered World War Two, the Japanese invaded China. They bombed most of Nanking. The rich people fled like rats from a fire, leaving the poor and infirmed to fend for themselves. Missionaries from all over the white world decided to stay during the attack to provide a refuge and place for medicine, food and shelter to those people left behind. They started a safe zone in hopes the Japanese would respect it and the poor people of Nanking would be safe. They did not. It is estimated during that time that 20 thousand rapes occurred in less than six weeks and 200 thousand people were killed in the same time. Many of the murders and rapes were done in front of family members in particularly brutal fashion ... " [More]

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"Anyone confused by the labyrinth that is the Academy’s process for selecting Best Documentary Oscar nominees would be well served by reading Agnes Varnum’s indieWIRE column on the subject. In it, she explains that in order for a film to qualify for a nomination, it can’t have screened on television or online, and it *must* screen in 14 cities *in addition* to playing a one-week “qualifying run” in either New York or Los Angeles. One way films accomplish that later stipulation is by playing during DocuWeek, a mini-festival organized by the International Documentary Association (IDA) which takes place this year from August 17-23 in Los Angeles. If you live in L.A. or can make the trip, you’ll have a week to catch a number of films fresh from the festival circuit, such as Taxi To the Dark Side, Hear and Now, and Nanking. The program also includes several films that I hadn’t previously heard of that I’d love to see, including Joan Brooker-Marks‘ Larry Flynt: The Right to Be Left Alone. ... " [More]

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"Friends forever: Daniel Auteuil and Julie Gayet in My Best Friend By Eric Kohn So much of the festival environment relies on finding new talent that the presence of established artists practically seems like an afterthought. The tenuous relationship between career success and festival recognition doesn’t apply to filmmakers whose name alone attracts a crowd. This year, Tribeca held a spot for Patrice Leconte, one of the finest contemporary French filmmakers, for his sizably budgeted comedy My Best Friend. The movie arrived at the festival with a distribution deal through IFC Films in place (it hits theaters July 13), meaning that its inclusion in the festival primarily serves to guarantee that some quality offerings that only a veteran can provide. But what’s in a name? Not everything, unfortunately. I’ve admired Leconte’s inquisitive character studies for years; his magnificent reworking of The Prince and the Pauper in 2002’s The Man on the Trai ... " [More]

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