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Eddie Adams Documentary
Michael Moriatis, Photographer
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Patrick Fallon, Student/Intern, Photographer
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Columbia | MO | USA | Posted: 6:38 PM on 08.01.09 |
| ->> Great film. |
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Ian L. Sitren, Photographer
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Palm Springs | CA | USA | Posted: 8:44 PM on 08.01.09 |
->> I just saw the film today. Excellent and you really should go out of your way to see it. Here is the website for the film to get the schedule.
http://www.anunlikelyweapon.com/
Many great photographers such as Bill Eppridge and David Hume Kennerly are in the film with some great stories from their times in Vietnam and with their recollections of the subject of the documentary, Eddie Adams.
Also today we had the director Susan Morgan Cooper on hand to recount how she came to do this story and other questions and answers, very interesting.
Currently in Palm Springs California at the Camelot Theatre. Which by the way has a full bar and cafe in the theatre.
http://www.camelottheatres.com/ |
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Lindy Dugger, Photographer
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Rome | Ga | | Posted: 9:52 PM on 08.04.09 |
->> I practically drug my husband to see this when we were in LA a few weeks ago. I thought it was great, and very inspiring. He even liked it, which really surprised me, as he isn't a photography or journalism person at all, and he prefers to watch things involving fighting, food and sponges that live in pineapples.
What really really surprised me though... that night there was a Q&A with the director of the film, which was really cool. I don't go to a lot of things like that because my attention span is that of about a 3 year old and I can almost never think of intelligent questions. I always admired Adams though never met him, and was really interested to hear what she had to say.
And then Eddie Adams sister-in-law (whose name I have forgotten)(and whom we apparently sat next to for the entire film) pretty much crashed the thing, insisting she had a right to be there, as she was "co-producer," even though she wasn't invited. She'd refused to leave but the director tried to go along with it to keep from causing a fuss. However, Adams sister-in-law continually interrupted her, refuted things she said, did the whole eye-rolling loud sighing insinuating director was stupid thing, that sort of non-physical catfight thing. And then they got in a fight over the microphone. The director stormed out, along with most of the crowd in the small theater. Adams' sister-in-law tried to continue the Q&A. The only question she took before the police stormed in was something along the lines of "What's it like to be a crazy person?"
I don't know either woman, so I just took it at face value. It was all very awkward. I never seen anything like it, at least at an event like that. We were on the second row and couldn't really leave (without crawling over rows of seats), given there was one exit for us , which was blocked by Adams sister-in-law, a younger man with her, the theater manager and I believe some other people who worked at the theater. The director was rather upset by the whole thing (I got the impression they had clashed before), but she informally continued the Q&A in front of the concession stand as Adams siter-in-law was escorted out.
So I guess I got more of a show than I bargained for. What irritated me about it all though is that I remember more from the spectacle after the show than from the movie or the director's Q&A answers. I also wonder if their disagreements will complicate distribution of the film later on.
Anyway. I'm not sure that all had a real point. I just had to share that.
Great film though. If you get a chance to see it, do. |
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Paul Gallaher, Photographer
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Temecula | CA | USA | Posted: 4:49 PM on 09.03.09 |
->> I just found out that the documentary is coming to my hometown next week for the Temecula Valley International Film Festival. I didn't see this showing listed on film's website.
http://www.tviff.com/films.html#documentaries
By the way Lindy, that's a crazy story! |
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Patrick Murphy-Racey, Photographer
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Powell | TN | USA | Posted: 11:47 AM on 09.04.09 |
| ->> I bought it on DVD a couple months ago. I've watched it twice so far and it's an amazing look at Eddie and his work. It was worth the $$ to buy the DVD as they'll never show that film here in Knoxville... |
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