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06/24/06
Voices in Wartime (2005)
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Reviews Counted: 16 Fresh: 13 Rotten:3 Average Rating: 6.8/10
Runtime: 75 mins
Synopsis: The powerful and saddening effects of war can produce unique and valuable responses from artists, filmmakers, writers, and other creative types. In VOICES IN WARTIME an array of poets offer their attempts at encapsulating these experiences in verse, with both amateur and professional... [More]
Genre: Education/General Interest
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08/16/07
One of the most original war movies ever made. Men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.
04/15/05
Stodgily structured by intercutting grisly stock footage with talking heads and muddy videos of Poets Against the War events, Voices in Wartime isn't nearly as cinematically inspiring as many of the poets it brings to light.
04/15/05
An important new documentary that looks at the ways in which poetry helps people come to terms with conflict.
04/15/05
Top Critic
Voices in Wartime is a thoughtful, provocative exploration of the ways poets have dealt with the experience of battle throughout history.
04/14/05
Top Critic
It's interesting that, in a documentary about war poetry that supplements literary readings with the occasional use of exceedingly bloody archival war footage, the words more than hold their own against the pictures.
04/14/05
The film’s self-limiting pacifism precludes a closer look at the poetry of war, which is not synonymous with poetry against war.
04/14/05
Making poetry cinematic requires greater imagination than King evinces...If the medium isn't always as sturdy as the message, that's a fault that can be readily overlooked.
04/10/05
...fascinating and extremely literate documentary Voices in Wartime manages to present the poet's position on war without turning completely into an anti-Bush film.
04/09/05
Top Critic
Filled with some of the most powerful poetry and shattering images ever to come out of warfare.
04/08/05
Rick King's stirring documentary Voices in Wartime is not, as you might guess from the title, a compilation of soldiers' battlefield letters to their families back home. This intense little film is about poetry.
04/07/05
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[A] poorly organized mishmash of archival war films, scholarly chatter, and literary quotations.
04/05/05
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