REDACTED

Rated R; 90min; Director:Brian De Palma  

Location: Alamo Downtown

Brian De Palma's new anti-war film REDACTED has inspired two competing camps in the court of public opinion to, ironically, go to war with one another. Bill O'Reilly, enraged by the film's seemingly negative depiction of the US involvement in Iraq, has even indirectly called for the execution of the Film's producer, Mark Cuban.

A fictional story inspired by true events, REDACTED is a unique cinematic experience that will force viewers to radically reconsider the filters through which we see and accept events in our world, the power of the mediated image and how presentation and composition influence our ideas and beliefs. A profound meditation on the way information is packaged, distributed and received in an era with infinite channels of communication, REDACTED utilizes a variety of created source material-video diaries, produced documentary, surveillance footage, online testimonials, news pieces-to comment on the extreme disconnect between the surface of an image and the reality of ideas and the truth, especially in times of strife.

Centered around a small group of American soldiers stationed at a checkpoint in Iraq, REDACTED alternates points of view, balancing the experiences of these young men under duress and members of the media with those of the local Iraqi people, illuminating how each have been deeply affected by the current conflict and their encounters with each other. The charged apotheosis of Brian De Palma's filmmaking career, REDACTED caps off a body of work which has explored the politics of image-making and reception more fully than any living filmmaker.

Austin Chronicle Review.

"AN AMAZINGLY VIGOROUS WORK AND De PALMA's STRONGEST CINEMATIC STATEMENT SINCE 'CASUALTIES OF WAR'." - Richard Corliss, Time

"ANGRY. POWERFUL. INCENDIARY." - David Ansen, Newsweek

"THE MOVIE EVERYONE WILL BE TALKING ABOUT. I hope that it makes people livid, that it's furiously debated. De Palma makes me proud to be an American." - David Edelstein, New York Magazine

"THE ONLY IRAQ FILM I WOULD RANK ALONGSIDE 'NO END IN SIGHT' IN THE CATEGORY OF ESSENTIAL VIEWING." - Scott Foundas, LA Weekly

"De Palma's anger and frustration with the media course through 'Redacted' like an electrical current." - Stephanie Zacharek, Salon

"A SENSATIONAL FILM. De Palma's filmmaking skills have seldom been as razor sharp." - Ray Bennett, Hollywood Reporter

Kid Policy: 18 and up; Children 6 and up will be allowed only with a parent or guardian. No children under the age of 6 will be allowed.

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