May 29th
Last Days in Vietnam**
(US 2014)
Illuminating documentary covering the dramatic American evacuation from Saigon from the hands of the North Vietnamese in April 1975, excellently told as semi-drama using on-the-spot TV film cameras from the time. As a US-made film it carefully portrays American guilt rather than shame at their biggest military defeat, and the film absorbs but also drags for its length.
Written by: Mark Bailey, Keven McAlester.
Producers: Rory Kennedy, Keven McAlester.
Director: Rory Kennedy.
Contributions by: Henry Kissinger, Stuart Herrington, Frank Snepp, Jim Laurie, Juan Valdez.
Music: Gary Lionelli.
Preceded by:
The Great Train Robbery***
(US 1903. Edison Manufacturing Company/Kleine Optical Company. 12m. bw. silent; The first Western, of sorts, and also significantly the first narrative that looks remarkably modern by later standard, gathering together all the various techniques the medium had been developing for the last decade or so. For its time a breakthrough work, and the famous closing shot (below) of a gunman - intended as an instruction to projectionists to reinsert where relevant - serves instead to state that Motion Pictures had well and truly arrived.; w: Scott Marble, Edwin S. Porter; d: Edwin S. Porter; s: Justus D. Barnes, Bronco Billy Anderson, Alfred C. Abadie, and others; ph: Edwin S. Porter, Blair Smith.)
Last Days in Vietnam**
Illuminating documentary covering the dramatic American evacuation from Saigon from the hands of the North Vietnamese in April 1975, excellently told as semi-drama using on-the-spot TV film cameras from the time. As a US-made film it carefully portrays American guilt rather than shame at their biggest military defeat, and the film absorbs but also drags for its length.
Written by: Mark Bailey, Keven McAlester.
Producers: Rory Kennedy, Keven McAlester.
Director: Rory Kennedy.
Contributions by: Henry Kissinger, Stuart Herrington, Frank Snepp, Jim Laurie, Juan Valdez.
Music: Gary Lionelli.
Preceded by:
The Great Train Robbery***
(US 1903. Edison Manufacturing Company/Kleine Optical Company. 12m. bw. silent; The first Western, of sorts, and also significantly the first narrative that looks remarkably modern by later standard, gathering together all the various techniques the medium had been developing for the last decade or so. For its time a breakthrough work, and the famous closing shot (below) of a gunman - intended as an instruction to projectionists to reinsert where relevant - serves instead to state that Motion Pictures had well and truly arrived.; w: Scott Marble, Edwin S. Porter; d: Edwin S. Porter; s: Justus D. Barnes, Bronco Billy Anderson, Alfred C. Abadie, and others; ph: Edwin S. Porter, Blair Smith.)
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