Battle for Haditha

Battle for Haditha: A remarkable film about the Iraq war

Iraq War (Free subscription) | 06/08/2008

Image Entertainment Announces Exclusive U.S. Distribution Agreement for Acclaimed Nick Broomfield Film 'Battle for Haditha'

The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 05/21/2008

CHATSWORTH, Calif. - Image Entertainment, Inc. (NASDAQ: DISK), a leading independent licensee, producer and distributor of home entertainment programming in North America, announced today that it has entered into a U.S. distribution agreement with HanWay Films Ltd. to acquire the home video,

Image Entertainment Announces Exclusive U.S. Distribution Agreement for Acclaimed Nick Broomfield Film 'Battle for Haditha'

Business Wire (Free subscription) | 05/21/2008

CHATSWORTH, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Image Entertainment, Inc. (NASDAQ: DISK), a leading independent licensee, producer and distributor of home entertainment programming in North America,

GRITtv: Meet the OEA

Firedoglake (Free subscription) | 05/20/2008

Can you imagine a world where the government cares about and enforces fuel efficiency? Meet the OEA, via The Freedom From Oil campaign. And tune in later for the full hour with a roundtable discussion on faith and politics, and an interview with the filmmaker behind Battle for Haditha .

GRITtv Interview: Nick Broomfield's Battle for Haditha

Firedoglake (Free subscription) | 05/20/2008

I recently had a chance to sit down with filmmaker Nick Broomfield, and Iraq war veteran and actor Elliot Ruiz to talk about their new film Battle for Haditha .

Movie Review: Battle for Haditha

Entertainment Weekly (Free subscription) | 05/16/2008

The movie shows us the Iraq war from both sides. Ahmad (Falah Abraheem Flayeh), a bone-weary middle-aged insurgent who buries and detonates an IED in a domestic neighborhood, has no illusions about the al-Qaeda operatives he gets the bomb from. He thinks they're ''f---ing idiots.'' Yet he also wants the Americans out. Corporal Ramirez, a (fictionalized) U.S. squad leader played with brilliant, dead-eyed...

Review: There will be blood on their hands

Examiner (Free subscription) | 05/16/2008

The Iraq war films, they keep on coming, and with the arrival of "Battle for Haditha," this under-seen collection obtains one of its finer dramas.

Battle for Haditha: A remarkable film about the Iraq war

Indybay newswire (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008

Friday, May 9, 2008 : Directed by Nick Broomfield, written by Broomfield, Marc Hoeferlin and Anna Telford Nick Broomfields Battle for Haditha is opening in New York City this week. This comment on the film was originally posted as part of the coverage of the 2007 Toronto film festival.

Review: "Battle for Haditha"

From the Front Row (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008

Film review: Battle For Haditha

A.V. Club (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008

Professional rabble-rouser Nick Broomfield uses his documentary techniques for a fictional telling of an infamous war crime in Iraq.

Battle for Haditha is the Best War Film in Years

FLiXER: Entertainment Industry News (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008

I’ve always been conflicted by my hatred for war and my love for war films. But I can't help being excited by cinematic combat. As Miguel Ferrer says in Hot Shots! Part Deux , “War … it's fantastic!” Certainly his character is referring to the real-life action, but in a reflexive way he’s talking about war on film (he does break the diegetic space when he utters the statement, after all). And I have...

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indieWIRE INTERVIEW | "Battle for Haditha" Director Nick Broomfield

IndieWire (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008

by Eric Kohn (May 8, 2008) As a documentarian, Nick Broomfield has dissected American pop culture with films like " Biggie & Tupac " and " Kurt & Courtney ." With his more recent forays into narrative feature filmmaking, he has broadened his scope to include global issues. " Ghosts " explored the dark world of Chinese migrant workers in the UK, and his latest work, " Battle for Haditha ," which opened...

Battle for Haditha x 2

ReverseBlog (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008

Two takes this week on Nick Broomfield's fictionalized Iraq film Battle for Haditha: First up, Michael Joshua Rowin: During the sixteen years of the Vietnam War few films, and certainly no significant ones, depicted the conflict, while in the...

Battle for Haditha

Reverse Shot - (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008

Working with nonprofessional actors, he elicits good performances from his cast, something De Palma wasn't able to do with his stage actors in Redacted , even when he tried to harness their inabilities into a sort of B-movie alienation effect. The important difference lies in the reductive Southern psychopaths De Palma pawns off as his villains and the young, impoverished, and naïve men—more like...

Battle for Haditha - movie review

Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008

The new Iraq war film Battle for Haditha digs its heels into the cracked earth good and deep as if it

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