DVD
The act of killing [videorecording] / Final Cut for Real presents ; directed by Joshua Oppenheimer ; produced by Signe Byrge Sorensen, Final Cut for Real APS ; a film by Joshua Oppenheimer.
The filmmakers examine a country where death squad leaders are celebrated as heroes, challenging them to reenact their real-life mass-killings in the style of the American movies they love. The hallucinatory result is a cinematic fever dream, a journey into the imaginations of mass murderers and the banal regime of corruption and impunity they inhabit.
Record details
- Physical Description: 2 videodiscs (ca. 288 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
- Publisher: [United States] : Cinedigm Entertainment, c2014.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "No. 14"--Container. Features: interview with the director on Democracy Now!; audio commentary with executive producer Werner Herzog and director Joshua Oppenheimer; Werner Herzog and Errol Morris on the act of killing; deleted scenes; trailers; 40-page booklet featuring an essay by Errol Morris. Includes both the theatrical and director's cut versions of the film. Originally produced in 2012. |
| Participant or Performer Note: | With Haji Anif, Syamsul Arifin, Sakhyan Asmara. |
| Target Audience Note: | E. |
| System Details Note: | DVD ; Dolby digital 5.1. |
| Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note: | For private home use only. |
| Language Note: | Indonesian audio; English subtitles. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Cookstown Branch | DVD 364.1523409598 Act | 31681002439008 | NFDVD | Available | - |
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"In this chilling and inventive documentary, executive produced by Errol Morris (The Fog Of War) and Werner Herzog (Grizzly Man), the filmmakers examine a country where death squad leaders are celebrated as heroes, challenging them to reenact their real-life mass-killings in the style of the American movies they love. 97% Certified Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes. Bonus material to include an extended directorâs cut, an audio commentary with Werner Herzog, deleted scenes, and a collectible 20-page booklet with an essay from Herzog." - Baker & Taylor
Examines former Indonesian Death Squad assassins who are hailed as heroes in their country and are challenged to reenact their real-life mass killings in the style of American movies. - Cinedigm
When the Indonesian government was overthrown in 1965, small-time gangster Anwar Congo and his friends went from selling movie tickets on the black market to leading anti-communist death squads in the mass murder of over a million people. Anwar boasts of killing hundreds with his own hands, but he's lived in his country with impunity ever since. When approached to make a film about their role in the genocide, Anwar and his friends eagerly comply-but their idea of being in a movie is not to provide reflective testimony, but to dance their way through musical numbers, twist arms in film noir gangster scenes, and gallop across the prairies as yodeling cowboys. A cinematic fever dream, The Act of Killing presents a gripping conflict between moral imagination and moral catastrophe.
