Members of Vietnam Veterans Against the War testifying in Detroit in 1971, including, second through fourth from left, Rusty Sachs, Scott Camil and Kenneth J. Campbell.
August 12 -18, 2005
The Film Society of Lincoln Center
Walter Reade Theater
Just a reminder: Winter Soldier, about which the NYT says:
Like a live hand grenade brought home from a distant battlefield, the 34-year-old antiwar documentary Winter Soldier has been handled for decades as if it could explode at any moment.
Now, the 95-minute film - which has circulated like 16-millimeter samizdat on college campuses for decades but has never been accessible to a wide audience - is about to get its first significant theatrical release in the United States, beginning on Friday at the Film Society of Lincoln Center. (Other bookings, including Chicago, Detroit, Hartford and Minneapolis, can be found at wintersoldierfilm.)
Its distributors say that the war in Iraq has made the Vietnam-era film as powerful as when it was new, and its filmmakers are calling it eerily prescient of national embarrassments like the torture at Abu Ghraib.
Seldom has a film seen by so few caused so much consternation for so many years.
(photo: Sheldon Ramsdell/Milliarium Zero)
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