Archive for tag: The Hurt Locker

The Way You Don’t Die: The Hurt Locker

5 February, 2010 (00:05) | by Sean Axmaker, Film Reviews, Kathryn Bigelow | By: Sean Axmaker

[expanded from a review originally published on seanax.com, July 2009] “Tell me something. What’s the best way to disarm one of these things?” “The way you don’t die, sir.” Set in the current Iraq war, after the proclamation of “Mission Accomplished” and the transformation of a battlefield army into an occupation force, The Hurt Locker [...]

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True Fiction: Kathryn Bigelow on “The Hurt Locker”

4 February, 2010 (01:08) | by Sean Axmaker, Interviews, Kathryn Bigelow | By: Sean Axmaker

The Hurt Locker premiered in the one-two punch of the Venice Film Festival and the Toronto International Film Festival in the fall of 2008 and then made the long march through subsequent film festivals until its theatrical release in June 2009. Director Kathryn Bigelow shepherded the film through each showing, giving interviews every step of [...]

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SIFF 2009 – Summer Hours, Still Walking, The Hurt Locker

22 May, 2009 (17:46) | by Sean Axmaker, Film Festivals | By: Sean Axmaker

The complications and tricky negotiations of family, as siblings grow up and leave to establish their own lives and their own families, was a central theme of numerous films at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival. Two of the best films from that festival, Olivier Assayas’ Summer Hours (L’heure d’ete) and Hirozaku Kore-Eda’s Still Walking, [...]

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