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Bill Couturie
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: HBO Home Video
: Documentary, Political & Social Issues, Military, War, Iraq
: 60 min.
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Produced and directed by Oscar? and Emmy? Award winner Bill Couturi (HBO's Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam), this one-hour documentary is an intimate, deeply moving tribute to American soldiers recently killed during Operation Iraqi Freedom. Produced in association with LIFE books and the New York Times. HBO Video's net proceeds from this program will benefit the families of soldiers who have died in military operations in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere since September 11, 2001.
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| Grief & Waste
by talltale
October 1, 2006 - 8:06 AM PDT
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| Grief and waste, over and over again, comprise LAST LETTERS HOME, a peculiarly depressing, hour-long documentary about the families of our dead in the current Iraq war. As I recall when this HBO piece surfaced in 2004, it was greeted with applause for being non-political and instead showing the enormous loss and pain experienced by the various families. This is true, and it's a very sad thing to see and hear--as it would be if we witnessed the same from the families of dead Iraqis. The filmmakers scrupulously avoid any entry into subjects such as why we are in Iraq or what good or evil we might be accomplishing there. For me, this is a cheat (and a waste of a different sort). If you are interested in having much more to chew on, feel and discuss, watch the exemplary documentary "The Ground Truth," just out from Focus Features. |
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