The Hurt Locker (Bigelow, 2008): BFI Southbank, NFT2, 8.20pm
This is a 35mm presentation which also screens on February 21st. The film is part of the Kathryn Bigelow season at BFI Southbank. Full details here.Chicago Reader review:
Kathryn
Bigelow’s heart-stopping Iraq war drama (2009) follows a U.S. army bomb
squad around Baghdad as it defuses IEDs, a job that places the men in
potentially deadly situations a dozen times a day. After the squad’s
explosives expert is killed in action, he’s replaced by a shameless
cowboy (Jeremy Renner) whose needless risk-taking infuriates his two
partners (Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty). He’s a true warrior, but
Bigelow defines that in terms of addiction; as one of the other soldiers
points out, he doesn’t mind endangering them to get his daily
“adrenaline fix.” The war has already produced some excellent fiction
films (The Lucky Ones, In the Valley of Elah),
but this is the first to dispense with the controversy surrounding the
invasion and focus on the timeless subject of men in combat. It’s the
best war movie since Full Metal Jacket.
JR Jones
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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