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Everything Is Illuminated (2005)
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"This review first appeared in slightly different form during the 2007 Toronto Film Festival. Operation Filmmaker opens in New York tomorrow. As a portrait of post-Sadaam Iraqi youth, Operation Filmmaker doesn’t have the “wow!” factor of another recently released movie about Iraqi kids looking for refuge in American popular culture. But for a film that began life as a vanity project designed to document an act of kindness on the part of a Hollywood star, it’s a surprisingly evocative examination of privileged, well-intentioned ignorance. That director Nina Davenport chooses to resolve the story on a pat, inappropriately jokey note is thus maybe a fitting way to end a story of conflict between the self-oblivious and a master manipulator, but it’s still a disappointment. In 2004, an MTV documentary featured a nine-minute segment on Muthana Mohmed, a twenty-somet "
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"This review first appeared in slightly different form during the 2007 Toronto Film Festival. Operation Filmmaker opens in New York tomorrow. As a portrait of post-Sadaam Iraqi youth, Operation Filmmaker doesn’t have the “wow!” factor of another recently released movie about Iraqi kids looking for refuge in American popular culture. But for a film that began life as a vanity project designed to document an act of kindness on the part of a Hollywood star, it’s a surprisingly evocative examination of privileged, well-intentioned ignorance. That director Nina Davenport chooses to resolve the story on a pat, inappropriately jokey note is thus maybe a fitting way to end a story of conflict between the self-oblivious and a master manipulator, but it’s still a disappointment. In 2004, an MTV documentary featured a nine-minute segment on Muthana Mohmed, a twenty-somet "
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"By Tricia Olszewski At 27, Catherine is already worried about turning into her parents. “I think I’m like my dad,” she says. “I’m afraid I’m like my dad.” She’s not talking about a tendency to be critical or scavenge the refrigerator late at night, though: Her father, a brilliant mathematician at the University of Chicago, is also mentally ill. In Proof’s opening scene, Dad—aka Robert (Anthony Hopkins)—reassures Catherine (Gwyneth Paltrow) that she’s just fine. “Crazy people don’t sit around asking if they’re nuts,” he says. Catherine buys this for a minute—it’s her birthday, after all, and her father and his bottle of cheap champagne constitute her midnight celebration. But then she points out that it’s not a sound argument, because Robert is sitting around discussing the topic despite the fact that’s he’s clearly certifiable himself. He concedes to her l ... "
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"On the Toronto International Film Festival’s official Doc Blog, TIFF documentary programmer Thom Powers has been asking various film fest and doc professionals (including Matt Dentler, Agnes Varnum, and David Nugent) to name the nonfiction films that they’re most excited to see at this year’s TIFF. No one’s asked me what I think, so of course I’m going to chime in anyway: the film on the Real to Reel program that I’m most looking forward to is probably Obscene, Neil Ortenberg and Daniel O’Connor’s portrait of publisher Barney Rosset, who fought obscenity trials over works like Tropic of Cancer and I Am Curious … Yellow. I’m also interested in Operation Filmmaker, which made a few of the Doc Blog lists. Directed by Nina Davenport, it’s the story of an Iraqi film school student who, after the bombing of Baghdad in 2003, gets a job on the set of Liev Schreiber’s
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