Holy fucking shit. All apologies for incoherence in the following review but having just emerged from Joshua Oppenheimer’s shattering documentary “The Act of Killing,” which screened here in Berlin this morning, I am still shaking. I may not be in the best state to write about it, in fact, but there...
Read More »Joshua Oppenheimer and Christine Cynn's "The Act of Killing" topped the winners of the Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival (CPH:DOX) this past weekend, taking the festival's DOX:AWARD prize. Other winners at the ceremony -- held at the Bremen Theater in downtown Cope...
Read More »Drafthouse Films has acquired US rights to Joshua Oppenheimer's breakout Danish doc "The Act of Killing." The film, described by Errol Morris as "a non-fiction film unlike anything else," is a series of portraits of Indonesian death squad leaders, challenged to reenact their real-life mass killings ...
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