Denver Post (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
... House. "The Good Soldier" won the Maysles Brothers Award for best documentary. The moving work by Lexy Lovell and Michael Uys features five combatants from World War II, Vietnam and wars in the Middle East. Other films competing in the documentary category were: "American Faust: From Condi to Neo-Condi," an indictment of former Bush national security adviser and later Secretary of...
Unending Conversations of Hope (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
... Veterans Day holiday, Bill Moyers Journal showed The Good Soldier, an unsanitized documentary by Lexy Lovell and Michael Uys that can also be viewed in theatres. I have watched it twice and I urge every reader to watch it, either in a theatre or at home on DVD, preferably with a group of family and friends who after viewing the film can discuss together what we need to do to recover...
Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
The Good Soldier, a powerful documentary directed by two Park Slope filmmakers, Lexy Lovell and Michael Uys (DGA, Los Angeles Film Critics, and Peabody Award winners for Riding the Rails), is being called "incendiary," and "affecting" The film follows the journeys of five combat veterans from different generations of American wars as they sign up, go into battle, and...
Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
The Good Soldier, a powerful documentary directed by two Park Slope filmmakers, Lexy Lovell and Michael Uys (DGA, Los Angeles Film Critics, and Peabody Award winners for Riding the Rails), is being called "incendiary," and "affecting" The film follows the journeys of five combat veterans from different generations of American wars as they sign up, go into battle, and...
Denver Post (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
... who pays the price matter"The Good Soldier": They are on our minds these days, our soldiers. And Lexy Lovell and Michael Uys' documentary about five combat vets from different American wars takes on their burden. It's not merely that soldiers die in our names. When they do their duties well, they kill. Playing: Starz FilmCenter, noon.Because great repertory should always be part of...
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Skillfully interweaving the stories of five different servicemen from four different conflicts, "The Good Soldier" is a surprisingly nondoctrinaire docu about anti-war veterans that marches to its own drummer. Never marshaling testimonies into an overarching exposition, filmmakers Lexy Lovell and Michael Uys (helmers of the compelling "Riding the Rails") explore a wide range of backgrounds,...
