August 2025
Elegy for Journalism
Guest Curator
Christopher Guess
Bonus Theme
Documentaries Rule
Discussion Time
07 Sep 2025 — 20:00 UTC
Details
You gotta get close to get the truth. You get too close, you die.
Tagline
Dateline: 1980, El Salvador. Correspondent: Richard Boyle, Photojournalist - Guatemala, Iran, Vietnam, Chile, Belfast, Lebanon, Cambodia...
Overview
In 1980, an American journalist covering the Salvadoran Civil War becomes entangled with both the leftist guerrilla groups and the right-wing military dictatorship while trying to rescue his girlfriend and her children.
Release Date
Apr 23, 1986
Revenue
$1,500,000
Runtime
123 min
Genres
Drama
Thriller
War
Production Companies
Hemdale
Cinema '85
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Production Countries
United Kingdom
United States of America
Trailer
Film 1
Salvador
Oliver Stone — 1986
Details
More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.
Tagline
In New York City, he was the ultimate insider. But out here, he was on the outside, looking in.
Overview
A biopic of writer Truman Capote and his assignment for The New Yorker to write the non-fiction book "In Cold Blood".
Release Date
Sep 30, 2005
Revenue
$49,327,405
Runtime
114 min
Genres
Crime
Drama
Production Companies
United Artists
A-Line Pictures
Cooper's Town
Infinity Media
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Production Countries
United States of America
Trailer
Film 2
Capote
Bennett Miller — 2005
Details
We must look at it. We're required to look at it. We're required to do what we can about it. If we don't, who will?
Overview
Documentary about war photographer James Nachtwey, considered by many the greatest war photographer ever.
Release Date
Nov 01, 2001
Revenue
$0
Runtime
96 min
Genres
Documentary
Production Companies
Schweizer Fernsehen (FS)
Suissimage
Swiss National Television
Christian Frei Filmproductions
Production Countries
Switzerland
Trailer
Bonus Film
War Photographer
Christian Frei — 2001