THE COMPLEX AND CLARITY OR SEVERE CLEAR One could, I suppose, be forgiven for expecting that a documentary on the Iraq war composed entirely of video footage shot by soldiers directly involved in the long, slow roll toward Baghdad would more often than not resemble...
Posted by The Movie God Hollywood has produced countless war films over the decades. From some of the earliest of wars shown in movies like Braveheart and Kingdom of Heaven, to more modern wars depicted in movies like Platoon, Black Hawk Down, Apocalypse Now, Full...
A Marine Searches for Meaning in the Sands and ‘Steel Rain’ of Iraq By Stephen Holden “Here is the truth about being a Marine that you won’t find on the local news. We’re loud. We drink too much, fight too much and swear too much. Truth be told, our rifles are the...
A Marine documents his experiences in Iraq. by Elizabeth Weitzman With the exception of “The Hurt Locker,” the best pictures about the Iraq War have been documentaries. Most fictional films simply can’t capture the immediacy of the experience the way a raw chronicle...
‘Severe Clear’ movie review: Marine’s video journal is transformed into realistic war film By Stephen Whitty In 1990, Vietnam vet Tim O’Brien published “The Things They Carried,” an interlocking collection of stories about soldiers in combat. His characters weren’t...
By RONNIE SCHEIB Kristian Fraga’s ‘Severe Clear’ looks at the early days of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, as captured by Marine 1st Lt. Mike Scotti. A Sirk production. Produced by Marc J. Perez, Kristian Fraga. Executive producers, John L. Sikes, Benjamin Charbit....
