BATTLE FOR HADITHA: Nick Broomfield's Acclaimed War Drama.
U.S. Theatrical Premiere: 8pm May 7, Film Forum
Film Forum, 209 W Houston St, New York, NY 10014
Box Office: (212) 727-8110.
Showtimes are 1:15pm, 3:15pm, 6pm, 8pm, 10pm
www.filmforum.org
Roxie Cinema San Francisco, May 16
Roxie Film Center, 3117 16th Street, San Francisco, CA 94103
Tel: (415) 431-3611
Showtimes: 7pm, 8:50pm
Additional Saturday, Sunday & Wednesday matinees at 3pm and 5pm.
www.roxie.com
National release in selected theatres to follow.
"There will be no better film about the Iraq war ... with its emotional immediacy and depth-charged intelligence ... and lines of dialogue that fly up like crackling cinders."
- The Financial Times (London)
Best Director San Sebastian Film Festival 2007
Official Selection Toronto Film Festival 2007
Official Selection London Film Festival 2007
"Battle for Haditha is a searing eye-opener of a docu-style drama - an often brilliant attempt by Nick Broomfield to reveal the war, from both sides, at ground level. We see the nuts and bolts of how desperate insurgents plant and detonate a roadside bomb, and then we see the U.S. retaliation, as Broomfield restages one of the war's notorious calamities, a slaughter of civilians in Haditha."
- Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly - David Edelstein, New York Magazine
"Surprisingly nuanced... For its fierce 90 minutes, BATTLE FOR HADITHA is the first feature (about the war in Iraq) to rival the power and veracity of the best documentaries."
"The closest thing this conflict has produced to a 'Paths of Glory' or an 'All Quiet on the Western Front'...a full-tilt, pulse-pounding war movie that resists moralism or easy stereotypes, and depicts the November 2005 'Haditha massacre'...as a prodigiously tragic example of war's universal tendency to dehumanize everyone it touches."
"Has the virtues of an excellent documentary... (Broomfield) presents a range of the Iraq War experience that has never been effectively shown before. Broomfield's sophisticated balance of fact and fiction in Battle for Haditha illustrates exactly how the Iraq War will enter popular memory-as legend."
- Armond White, New York Press
"After a long string of films about sensational (and sensationalized) personalities, Brit docu provocateur Nick Broomfield's recent stride into narrative filmmaking continues with BATTLE FOR HADITHA ... a dramatic re-creation of the November 2005 Marine massacre of civilians in Iraq in the cinema tradition of you-are-there pics - stemming back to Peter Watkins as well as Gillo Pontecorvo's BATTLE OF ALGIERS."
- Robert Koehler, Variety
"Gripping authenticity... a powerful devastating immediacy."
- Michael Rechtshaffen, The Hollywood Reporter
"Nick Bloomfield's powerful story, driven by a furious energy and a documentary versimilitude, shows how one act of violence unleashes a firestorm of retaliation."
"Broomfield isn't out to condemn individuals - larger forces shape their actions. It's a brave and humble piece of filmmaking."
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