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Tag: Iraq War
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The Road to Fallujah
Proudly “unembedded” in Iraq, Mark Manning claims to be the only Western journalist living among the civilians in the aftermath of the Battle of Fallujah, whose devastating consequences he documented in “The Road to Fallujah,” screening for free Tuesday 1/18 at DePaul University.
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Fighting Lies With Fiction
Green Zone reduces America’s blundering invasion of Iraq to a generic thriller.
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Lefty
Todd Looby’s Lefty may be the last film to shoot at the South Side Irish Parade. The independent drama, the iO-trained Looby’s second after his semi-autobiographical construction manager comedy The Site, follows the reunion of two childhood buddies returning to their old Beverly haunts – one an artist facing cancer (co-writer Thomas Madden), the other […]
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Walter Cronkite, Jon Stewart, and trust
A meaningless – and not just meaningless but bad – Time.com poll that “found” Jon Stewart is the most trusted news anchor is worrying journalist types; a heated but shallow discussion on Facebook set me off, and now it’s on the Trib and HuffPo and you’re just going to have to indulge me for a […]
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Never mind Bruno, here’s The Hurt Locker
Kathryn Bigelow’s heart-stopping war movie is being showered with accolades, all deserved. Also this week: Bruno, the Chicago premiere of Godard’s Made in U.S.A., and a brooding (what else?) documentary on Beethoven.
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Who cares?
Readers don’t demand coverage of the Iraq war and newspapers can’t afford it, so what’s the difference if it’s important?
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Pots not bombs
The Chicago Anarchist Film Festival’s opening night film, “On the Verge: The Smash EDO Campaign,” documents the five-year-long protest outside a British plant aimed at disrupting the supply of arms for the Iraq war.
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On Eartha Kitt and Harold Pinter
Reflecting on the deaths of Harold Pinter and Eartha Kitt.
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Obama — Afghanistan’s Next Victim?
Can his Afghanistan policy make Barack Obama that war’s next victim?
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It’s just that I ain’t got no watch, and you keep asking me what time it is
The Trib wants to leave Iraq in… a huff.
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Photographers going free
It’s good news for captive photographers Richard Butler and Bilal Hussein in Iraq.