Paul Greengrass

Review: The Assault

Marshall Fine | Posted 04.05.2012

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Like Paul Greengrass' United 93, this film focuses on urgent action in tightly enclosed spaces, which also leads to an occasional lack of clarity when we're not sure what we're seeing.

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Filming The Unfilmable: Hollywood's Attempts To Chronicle 9/11

HuffingtonPost.com | Saki Knafo | Posted 11.09.2011

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In late 2002, CIA officers at Guantanamo Bay reportedly rented the 1998 Roland Emmerich flick "Godzilla." The film had largely failed to engage the in...

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Movie Review: Hanna

Marshall Fine | Posted 06.06.2011

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Hanna and her father live in a cabin near the Arctic Circle -- but their time there is about to come to an end. He's training her for a mission: to find her way to a certain address in Munich.

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Green Zone: The Bourne Team Takes On Iraq, Rovian Politics

Katy Hall | Posted 05.25.2011

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Will Miller find WMD in Iraq? Will American reconstruction efforts in Baghdad go as planned in the face of growing insurgency? Of course not, but there are enough frenetic firefights to maintain a satisfying level of suspense.

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Eight Days a Week: Dunhill Unveils Their New iPad App

Melissa Berkelhammer | Posted 05.25.2011

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If we all had an eighth day of the week to do whatever we wanted, how would we spend that time? What type of stories and visuals would we be drawn to...

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"Bloody Sunday": Justice At Last for 1972 Killings in New Report

Greg Mitchell | Posted 05.25.2011

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After a twelve-year inquiry, the Lord Saville probe of the 1972 "Bloody Sunday" killings in Derry came to a climax yesterday afternoon with the release of his mammoth report.

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An Investigation Confirms It: Bloody Sunday Got It Right

Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 05.25.2011

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It took almost 40 years. And an investigation that took 12 years, cost $280 million and filled 5,000 pages. But now, at last, we know what happened on Bloody Sunday.

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In Green Zone, Actor Said Faraj Connects His Role to His Life

Brad Balfour | Posted 05.25.2011

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Said Faraj gives the film Green Zone verisimilitude from a very personal perspective. In this exclusive interview, we learn of a life that few outside of the Middle East have experienced.

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Ross Douthat Is Mature and You're Not

Ellis Weiner | Posted 05.25.2011

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When right-wingers have nothing substantive to say, they play the Vice-Principal card and call you "immature." Such, we are told, is the new Paul Greengrass/Matt Damon action film The Green Zone.

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The Bourne Baghdad Identity

James Denselow | Posted 05.25.2011

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Can Matt Damon's half-fiction set the benchmark for a popular history of the Iraq war? Ultimately what gives the Green Zone its credibility is that it avoids any simplistic idea that Iraq could have simply been "got right."

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For St. Patrick's Day, The Best Irish Movies By Farr

John Farr | Posted 05.25.2011

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With the always raucous, spirited celebration of St. Patrick's Day on the near horizon here in New York City, my thoughts turn to the powerful mystique of Ireland, and the many outstanding films that reflect it.

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Movie Review: Green Zone

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

Green Zone is a movie which, given a stronger sense of purpose, might have recounted exactly those failings and shown in stark relief how we were hoodwinked into war.

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