Viet Thanh Nguyen, “I watched Da 5 Bloods so you wouldn’t have to. I can’t recommend it. Here we go with my live tweeting of Spike Lee’s #Da5Bloods.”
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Five stars for Spike Lee’s Da 5 Bloods
Spike Lee’s Vietnam War film Da 5 Bloods is “a condemnation of the past, a call for change, and a rich work of art worth watching over and over again.”
‘America Told Us to Get Over It’: Black Vietnam Veterans Hail Spike Lee film
“Da 5 Bloods” highlights the experience of veterans who fought for their country only to be treated as second-class citizens.
Author Viet Thanh Nguyen on the legacy of “Apocalypse Now”
August 15, 2019—New York Public Radio's The Takeaway posted this interview with Vietnamese writer Viet Thanh Nguyen in...
The Cauldron: Columbia ’68
In April 1968, students at Columbia University occupied five campus buildings and for one week brought that prestigious institution to its knees. Fighting both the Vietnam War and university racism, the Columbia Revolt riveted the nation and changed everything. Could it happen today?
Jane Fonda on HBO film, and Ken Burns’ Vietnam War documentary: ‘I can’t stand it’
Jane Fonda at the Sept. 13 Los Angeles premiere of the HBO documentary, "Jane Fonda in Five Acts." (Kevork...
BOYS! FILM UPDATE View From the Producer’s Desk
BOYS! FILM UPDATE View From the Producer’s Desk July 2018 Dear Friends and Supporters, I’m writing to update you on...
Emile de Antonio’s ‘In the Year of the Pig’
CAPTION: An American soldier in Vietnam, as seen in “In the Year of the Pig,” a 1969 documentary film directed by...
G.I.s ‘Without a Country,’ Protesting the Vietnam War
Image: The struggle for racial equality and the anti-Vietnam War movement are paralleled in David Loeb Weiss’s 1968...
America’s amnesia
This article originally appeared at TheMekongReview.com. By Thomas A. Bass. Everything wrong with the new ten-part PBS...
Report that former members of South Vietnamese army assassinated enemies in US
This post originally appeared at PBS.org. CORRESPONDENT A.C. Thompson PRODUCED BY Richard Rowley A.C. Thompson WRITTEN...
Responses to Ken Burns & Lynn Novick
Photo credit: Owen Freeman By Howie Machtinger What is the appropriate response to the banality of the Op-Ed:...
US Values, Moral Accommodation and Remembering Vietnam
This article originally appeared at ThisCantBeHappening.net. A Popular Culture Essay by: John Grant. The past two days...
Insane Truths: a Vietnam Vet on “Apocalypse Now, Redux”
This article originally appeared at Counterpunch.org By Mike Hastie. It is almost 3 AM in Portland, Oregon. I just...
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