| Standard Operating Procedure deleted scene |
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In the course of gathering material for his
upcoming documentary on Abu Ghraib, Academy
Award-winning director Errol Morris conducted
over 200 hours of interviews with key
figures. Col. Janis Karpinski, at the time of
Abu Ghraib a Brigadeier General, was the
commander of the prison and later in charge
of Saddam Hussein once he was captured. Of
course, the vast majority of material can't
make the cut and this scene, while
compelling, wasn't in the film when Errol
Morris presented it at the 2007 New Yorker
Festival.
Full-length interview with Errol Morris and
Philip Gourevitch, which this clip is
excerpted from:
http://www.newyorker.com/online/video/festiva
l/2007/MorrisGourevitch
Tags : Errol Morris Abu Ghraib Karpinski Prisoners Torture Saddam Hussein Interview Documentary |
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Durée : 396 s |
| Standard Operating Procedure (Remember Abu Gharib?) |
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STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE is about a
series of photographs that changed the world,
changed the war, and changed America's image
of itself. A hundred years from now, these
photographs in all likelihood will define the
war in Iraq -- in particular, three iconic
photographs taken by soldiers in the 372nd MP
Company -- Lynndie England posing with a
prisoner on a leash; the Hooded Man standing
on a box with wires attached to his fingers;
and the pyramid of naked prisoners. In his
new film, Errol Morris shows how the
photographs served as both an expose and a
cover-up. An expose, because the photographs
offered us a glimpse of the horror of what
was happening at Abu Ghraib; but cover-up
because they seduced people into thinking
what they saw was an aberration limited to a
few rouge soldiers on the nightshift.
Abu Ghraib was a dangerous, disordered place.
Understaffed, undersupplied, under
unremitting mortar attack, but nonetheless,
it was no accident that these abuses
happened. The film explores the context of
these photographs. The story of the
photographs. Why were they taken? What was
happening outside the frame? Everybody knew
about the photographs but no one knew what
the photographs were about. Morris' goal
here was to talk to the soldiers who took the
photographs and who were in the photographs
-- to understand the photographs and the
people who took them.
Finally, the film is about a group of young
people sent to war. As such, it is a war
story, a story of a cover-up, and a story of
how a small group of lowly soldiers were
blamed for policy decisions and a war out of
control. Abu Ghraib was a world in which
almost no one was trained for the tasks they
were asked to perform, where everyone knew
what was going on, and where no one wanted to
blow the whistle. A world in which the rules
were torn up, a world in which law was
redefined as lawlessness. Morris says "My
last film, 'The Fog of War,' was about a
person that was at the apex of power, Robert
McNamara. With this new one, I wanted to
make a film about the people at the bottom of
the pyramid, 'the little guys.' A story that
I think the world needs to see and hear."
Sony Pictures Classics In association with
Participant Productions presents an Errol
Morris film, STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE.
Original music by Danny Elfman. Production
Design by Steve Hardie. The Editors on the
picture were Andy Grieve, Daniel Mooney and
Steven Hathaway. The Directors of
Photography were Robert Chappell & Robert
Richardson, ASC. The film's Executive
Producers are Jeff Skoll, Diane Weyermann,
Martin Levin, Julia Sheehan, Robert
Fernandez. Produced by Julie Bilson Ahlberg
and Errol Morris.
***Winner of the Silver Bear Award at the
2008 Berlin International Film Festival, Sony
Pictures Classics will open the picture
theatrically in select U.S. cities on April
25th and nationally throughout May. In
addition, a book by Philip Gourevitch and
Errol Morris will be published by Penguin
with the release of the film later this
Spring.
Opens April 25h. Rated R. 118 minutes. In
English Language.
For more information, log onto:
http://www.blacktree.tv
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Affichage : 5375
Durée : 119 s |
| Live Webcast: Orthotopic Heart Transplant Procedure |
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On September 19th, 2007 at 7:00 pm EDT, The
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery at the
Montefiore-Einstein Heart Center in New York
will present an OR-Live.com webcast of a
panel discussion on an orthotopic heart
transplant. This transplant procedure was
performed on April 17, 2007 by Dr. David
D'Alessandro, Cardiothoracic Surgeon at the
Center. The panel discussion will be
moderated by Dr. Daniel Goldstein, Surgical
Director of Cardiac Transplantation,
Montefiore-Einstein Heart Center. They will
be joined by a live audience of
surgeon-colleagues and cardiologists. The
webcast will feature video portions of the
procedure as well as detailed descriptions of
the techniques used.
Tags : heart transplant orthotopic cardiac cardiothoracic cardiology disease surgery donor surgeon |
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Durée : 107 s |
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