Screen/Society--AMI Showcase: "Far from Vietnam" (French New Wave docu)

Film Screening: "Far from Vietnam" (Jean-Luc Godard, Joris Ivens, William Klein, Claude Lelouch, Chris Marker, Alain Resnais, and Agnés Varda, 1967, 115 min, France, in French w/ English subtitles, Color, DVD).// -- Initiated and edited by Chris Marker, "Far from Vietnam" is an epic 1967 collaboration between cinema greats Jean-Luc Godard, Joris Ivens, William Klein, Claude Lelouch, Alain Resnais, and Agnés Varda in protest of American military involvement in Vietnam. A truly collaborative effort, the film brings together an array of stylistically disparate contributions, none individually credited, under a unified editorial vision. The elements span documentary footage shot in North and South Vietnam and at anti-war demonstrations in the United States; a fictional vignette and a monologue that dramatize the self-interrogation of European intellectuals, and a range of repurposed media material. Passionately critical and self-critical, and as bold in form as it is in rhetoric, "Far from Vietnam" is a milestone in political documentary and in French cinema.// "An important film, a beautiful film, a moving film...the cinema at last has its 'Guernica.'" - Richard Roud, The Guardian; "A stone-cold classic." - Michael Vazquez, The Huffington Post.// Watch trailer here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwH5W0Kj8kQ