Last Exit, a nifty online magzine, spotlights Full Battle Rattle in their new issue, devoted to war and violence. There's interview with us and short scene excerpt. Keach Hagey says:
a sympathetic portrait of individual people trying to do difficult jobs, and a subtle critique of the United States' strategy in the war...
SXSW has announced their screening times. FBR will premiere on Sunday, March 9 at 7 PM at the Austin Convention Center. Additional screening details on the SXSW website. And read our interview with eFilmCritic here.
How do you say Full Battle Rattle in French? Thursday's issue of Le Monde discusses the film, along with Errol Morris's new Abu Ghraib documentary, Standard Operating Procedure. They describe the world depicted in FBR as both "familiar and strange." English translation coming soon...
FBR premiered on Monday, February 11 to a sold-out crowd at the Cinestar 7 in Berlin's Postdamer Platz, followed by a passionate discussion. We're still recovering from the intense response the film generates. Here are a couple of press notices. From the Times of London:
The festival is also famous for documentaries, and Tony Gerber and Jesse Moss's Full Battle Rattle is an absolute peach. I'm not sure how they've been able to get away with this utterly stunning fly-on-wall piece about a "virtual reality Iraq" set up in the Mojave Desert to train American troops. It would be a sublime satire if it wasn't horribly true.And Screen International:
...without a doubt the most bizarre film to emerge yet from the current Gulf conflict - an entertaining, often very funny, but ultimately revealing and unsettling film...
Our North American premiere has just been announced: March 9 at the SXSW Film Festival in Austin, Texas. We'll be in the documentary competition. Stay tuned for more details.
FULL BATTLE RATTLE, our feature documentary about life inside the US Army's Iraq Simulation, will have its world premiere in the Panorama Dokumente section of the Berlin International Film Festival.
