It used fictionfilm techniques to tell the true story of two isolated rural. Berlinger confronts the fraught task of shedding light on the armenian genocide, whose witnesses and descendants are still fighting to be officially acknowledged by the international community, by revealing how it was carried out during world war i. Steven speilberg releases the pentagon papers known for his documentaries such as the paradise lost trilogy and metallica. Intent to destroy delivers an account of the events surrounding the horrific events that began in 1915, using archival photographs and film footage and interviews with scholars, historians and. Historians, scholars, and highprofile filmmakers come together in berlingers cinematic exploration of the tangled web of responsibility that has driven a century of denial by the turkish government and its strategic allies. New trailer for intent to destroy doc about the armenian. Joe berlingers thirteenth feature documentary intent to destroy explores the violent history of the armenian genocide and legacy of turkish denial over the past century. There were 11 other movies released on the same date, including daddys home 2, murder on the orient express and the price. The promise is a 2016 american historical drama film directed by terry george and starring oscar isaac, charlotte le bon and christian bale, set in the final years of the ottoman empire.
While there may be no completely dispassionate way to discuss its topic the armenian genocide the films balance of emotion and composure helps make its stories even stronger. Intent to destroy arpa international film festival. Some kind of monster, the filmmaker used the production of the promise to make intent to destroy, his own cinematic exploration of the tangled web of responsibility. The armenian genocide at beldocs intent to destroy. Intent to destroy chronicles the diplomatic pressure, hollywood censorship and. Nov 09, 2017 nytimes a levelheaded documentary lies behind the hotblooded title of intent to destroy. Intent to destroy film screening film screening on intent to destroy which chronicles the diplomatic pressure, hollywood censorship and legacy of turkish suppression that have conspired to bury the horror of the armenian genocide. While there may be no completely dispassionate way to discuss its topic, ken jaworowski wrote in the new york times, the films balance of emotion. Written by ken jaworowski, november 9, 2017 a levelheaded documentary lies behind the hotblooded title of intent to destroy. Trailer 1 intent to destroy synopsis academy award nominated director joe berlinger embeds with a historic feature film production on the set of terry georges the promise, to take an unwavering look at the armenian genocide. Armenian genocide documentary intent to destroy nominated for. The film captures the cinematic and political challenges of producing a historically meaningful, bigbudget film in an environment rife with political suppression and threats of retaliation. Intent to destroy, berlingers first film to premiere at tribeca film festival, opened to a sold out theater and was followed by an extensive panel discussion with berlinger, esrailian, bogosian and balakian, as well as carla garabedian, producer of the promise, and john marshall evans, former u.
The grigorian family trust and the florida armenian genocide commemoration, inc. Nytimes a levelheaded documentary lies behind the hotblooded title of intent to destroy. In intent to destroy, documentarian joe berlinger attempts to assemble a sort of meditative history of the armenian genocide and its centurylong coverup by the turkish government out of a curious source. We actually have a number of regular customers based in the us, canada and australia who never have problems with our region 2 discs. Berlinger embeds himself and his crew within the production of the promise, a feature that takes place within the 1915 armenian genocide in which 1. In our era of fabricated news stories and rampant denial of open secrets in hollywood coming to the fore, intent to destroy reveals how suppression of actual events are used to create nations and destroy a people. This is how intent to destroy provides a completely new angle of viewing both the last days of the ottoman empire and the history of enormousscale brutal killings of armenians from 1915 to 1923, along with all the consequences that follow that event until present days. Abramorama will release the film theatrically on nov. Select any poster below to play the movie, totally free. Intent to destroy is directed by joe berlinger paradise lost, brothers keeper and explores the violent history of the armenian genocide and legacy of turkish suppression and denial over the past century. Tweets, and blog posts do not represent imdbs opinions nor can we guarantee that the reporting therein is completely factual.
Intent to destroy original motion picture soundtrack by. Intent to destroy film screening ucla school of law. On april 22 and 23 awardwinning filmmakers will explore power. Intent to destroy chronicles the diplomatic pressure, hollywood censorship and legacy of turkish suppression that have conspired to bury the horror of the armenian genocide. The film was based on the 1957 novel of the same name by brian moore written under the penname michael bryan. A lot of dvd players around now are region free which play any dvd region. It was shot on location in montreal, quebec, canada, with an international cast of european and north american actors. Intent to destroy official trailer 2017 armenian genocide. Intent to destroy is a timely reckoning with the largescale suppression of a. Abramorama and gathr films have acquired north american theatrical rights to the joe berlinger documentary intent to destroy, a filmwithina film that centers on the armenian genocide of 1915 and was a critical favorite at this years tribeca and hot docs film festivals. Intent to destroy, which won the best documentary film award at 2017. A fter a fiveyear apprenticeship as a producer for the pioneering documentary filmmakers albert and david maysles, joe berlinger launched his directorial career with brothers keeper. Intent definition is a usually clearly formulated or planned intention.
Intent to destroy shows that the armenian past is not over. While there may be no completely dispassionate way to discuss its topic the armenian genocide the films balance of emotion and composure helps make its. Written by ken jaworowski, november 9, 2017 a levelheaded documentary. Intent to destroy embeds with a historic feature production as a springboard to explore the violent history of the armenian genocide and legacy of turkish suppression and denial over the past century. Intent to destroy is a stunning examination of genocides roots. Intent to destroy sometimes plays like a dvd extra that might have accompanied the promise, but it does have value of its own in its interviews with historians, philosophers, and filmmakers and its vintage photos and footage. Intent to destroy 2017 tribeca film festival tribeca. Genocide film intent to destroy to debut on starz on april 23.
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The armenian genocidethemed documentary intent to destroy was nominated thursday for a news and documentary emmy award in the. The filminfilm produced by berlinger, chip rosenbloom and eric esrailian depicts the century of sophisticated denial campaigns by the turkish government that perpetrated the armenian genocide in ottoman turkey, and features atom egoyan, christian bale, mike. Abramorama has premiered the official trailer for a documentary titled intent to destroy, an examination of the armenian genocide and the history of denial by the turkish government. Nov 08, 2017 as a film, the promise is interesting for its subject and the struggle to get it made, rather than its own drama or technique. Made in tandem with another maysles employee, bruce sinofsky, the documentary did something nearrevolutionary for the time. Intent to destroy offers a meditative history of the. Intent to destroy 2017 pulling back the curtain on mass murder censorship in hollywood due to u. Armenian genocide documentary intent to destroy premieres. Filmmaker joe berlinger meets with historians and scholars to discuss the armenian genocide and the continuing denial by the turkish government of it ever happening. Footage of the armenian genocide shown in documentary intent to destroy by hooshere bezdikian special to asbarez and the armenian weekly new york new york city acclaimed filmmaker joe berlingers documentary feature about the armenian genocide, entitled intent to destroy, premiered on tuesday night at the sva theater during the tribeca film festival. A century of censorship and denial could not extinguish the truth.
Intent to destroy pulls back the curtain of political resistance and historical amnesia to finally present a more complete account of armenia the genocide, its delayed recognition and a nearly forgotten history of suffering and heroism in the hope of inspiring a collective sense of international justice and humanity. Oct 31, 2017 intent to destroy official trailer 2017 armenian genocide documentary movie hd subscribe for more movie trailers here. While there may be no completely dispassionate way to discuss its topic the. Joe berlinger, a prolific documentarian, discusses intent to destroy, his latest hotbutton film. Documentary director joe berlinger right and director of photography. The documentary intent to destroy includes behindthescenes footage of the. Nov 10, 2017 a film straining to sear itself into the consciousness of viewers had rendered itself bland and forgettable.
Director joe berlinger embeds himself on the epic film set of terry georges the promise 2016 to take an unwavering look at the armenian genocide. Historians, scholars, and highprofile filmmakers come together in berlingers cinematic exploration of the tangled web of responsibility that has driven a century of denial by the turkish. Certainly, the film industry loves a doc about what it doesand it is a passionate line of workbut intent to destroy raises the stakes of this inwardlooking examination significantly. The plot is about a love triangle that develops between mikael isaac, an armenian medical student, chris bale, a parisbased american journalist, and ana le bon, an armenianborn woman raised in france. Intent to destroy is divided into three chaptersdeath the genocide, denial the turkish campaign, and depiction the difficulties encountered by those whove tried to tell the storyand focuses primarily on how the turkish government has attempted to erase all evidence of and knowledge about what scholar peter balakian describes as. Starz, an american entertainment company that owns u. The filminfilm produced by berlinger, chip rosenbloom and eric esrailian depicts the century of sophisticated denial campaigns by the turkish government that perpetrated the armenian genocide in ottoman turkey. This is another great soundtrack score from serj tankian.
Berlinger confronts the fraught task of shedding light on the armenian genocide whose witnesses. A story with contemporary resonance that reminds us that to allow criminals to rewrite the past is to become compicit in the crime. As a film, the promise is interesting for its subject and the struggle to get it made, rather than its own drama or technique. Oct 12, 2017 intent to destroy film screening film screening on intent to destroy which chronicles the diplomatic pressure, hollywood censorship and legacy of turkish suppression that have conspired to bury the horror of the armenian genocide. Joe berlingers armenian genocide film intent to destroy. Pulling back the curtain on genocide censorship in hollywood due to u. Nov 08, 2017 intent to destroy delivers an account of the events surrounding the horrific events that began in 1915, using archival photographs and film footage and interviews with scholars, historians and. Nov 09, 2017 a levelheaded documentary lies behind the hotblooded title of intent to destroy. Though you are fully responsible for the content you post, comments that. The horrors of the death march exclusive at the playlist. The filminfilm produced by berlinger, chip rosenbloom and eric esrailian depicts the century of sophisticated denial campaigns by the turkish government that perpetrated the armenian genocide in ottoman turkey, and features atom. Intent to destroy goes well beyond the genre to build a terse, infuriating case against a monstrous injustice, one with frightening relevance to events today. Intent to destroy uses the promise as something of a guide, as our. With shohreh aghdashloo, taner akcam, hagop asadourian, peter balakian.
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This seems like one of the most definitive docs examining this historically tragic event, telling not only the history behind it and how it happened, but the ways. Now arriving in theaters only seven months later is joe berlinger s intent to destroy, a wellintentioned documentary that makes the puzzling miscalculation of upstaging the armenian genocide with the promise. Armenian genocide not up for debate in intent to destroy. Berlinger confronts the fraught task of shedding light on the armenian genocide whose witnesses and descendants are still fighting to be officially acknowledged as such by the international community how it was carried out during world war i as the reign of the ottoman empire drew to a close, and how it laid the groundwork for the genocides that followed. The film, starring shohreh aghdashloo, taner akcam, hagop asadourian, peter balakian, christian bale and many more, currently has a total of one poster available. The filminfilm produced by berlinger, chip rosenbloom and eric esrailian depicts the century of sophisticated denial campaigns by the turkish government that perpetrated the armenian genocide in ottoman turkey, and features atom egoyan, christian bale. The documentary premiere at this years tribeca film festival and was released in select theaters this past weekend by abramorama. Intent to destroy is a timely reckoning with the largescale suppression of a historical tragedy. Im looking to deleteremove an old activity instance when a new instance of same activity is created, however i need to maintain all other activities in backstack. Intent to destroy delivers an account of the events surrounding the horrific events that began in 1915, using archival photographs and film.
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