Is an entertainment journalist out of his depth with a hard news reporter and documentarian? Expertise in superheroes and slasher killers might not impress war correspondents, but we do what we can to help out. We can't send Suicide Girls to Afghanistan for the troops, but at least we can talk to some people who went.
Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington spent a year with a platoon in the Korengal Valley of Afghanistan. They documented a year in the unit's tour for articles in Vanity Fair, Junger's...
Thank you for a great interview. I saw Restrepo in Philadelphia this past Monday. The film is absolutely amazing. It is MUST viewing for, as the interview points out, anyone who wants a grunts eye view . It grabs you by the shirt collar in minute one and holds you in its grasp the entire ninety - three minutes. Definitely a movie I'll see again.
I really doubt the movie will make it out here, but I hope it does, even if just for a one-time-only screening. Everything I've heard about it sounds amazing.
ViquiV
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Santa Monica, CA
JUL 08, 2010 08:00 AM