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A while back, I received an email from an impassioned woman who had organized a boycott of Brian DePalma's movie "Redacted". The American left in Hollywood had released a slew of movies depicting our soldiers as the troubled, the disturbed and even murderous. One such movie was "Redacted" by Brian DePalma. Basketball's Dallas Maverick owner Mark Cuban bankrolled this movie. DePalma shot the movie on high definition video to give it that "today" look, however neither he or Cuban went to Iraq or talked to any soldiers about what it's really like over there. It was just all about DePalma...

IT'S hard for Hollywood pacifists like Brian De Palma to capture the hearts and minds of America if Americans won't see their movies. While the public is staying away in droves from “Rendition," “Lions for Lambs" and “In the Valley of Elah," audiences are really avoiding “Redacted," De Palma's picture about US soldiers who rape a 14-year-old Iraqi girl, then kill her and her family.

A very insightful, and mighty smackdown, of Brian De Palma's propaganda movie "Redacted" by Michael Medved. Listed to review here. He calls the movie "The worst film I have ever seen." Medved has been reviewing movies for over 25 years, and certainly knows his subject. Brian De Palma really layed an egg with this one. He couldn't even make an effective propaganda movie.

"It could be the worst movie I've ever seen" ... "[T]he out and out worst, most disgusting, most hateful, most incompetent, most revolting, most loathsome, most reprehensible cinematic work I have ever encountered." ... "It portrays the members of our Marine Corps in the most disgusting way imaginable." ... "This film is an atrocity. It is zero stars." ... "I honestly was close to vomiting when I saw the film." ... "It is a slander on the United States of America." ... "Everyone associated with this film ought to be ashamed." ... "Will it inspire future terrorists? Of course it...

LONDON (Reuters) - Two Hollywood directors who are part of a wave of films about the war in Iraq and the broader fallout from the September 11, 2001 attacks have said they were only doing what media failed to do -- telling the truth. Brian De Palma's "Redacted," arguably the most shocking feature yet about events in Iraq, hits theatres on Friday, using a documentary style to tell the true story of the gang rape and murder of an Iraqi girl by U.S. troops in 2006. Paul Haggis also based "In The Valley Of Elah," already released, on true events...

NEW YORK - Hollywood director Brian De Palma has lashed out at what he calls the censorship of his new film about Iraq and the chilling effect of corporate America on the war. De Palma's film, "Redacted," is based on the true story of a group of U.S. soldiers who raped and killed a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and murdered members of her family. It has stunned audiences for its shocking images and rattled American conservative commentators before its U.S. opening next month. But De Palma says he is upset that the documentary-style drama has been censored. The film's distributor, Magnolia...

Imagine telling the story of World War II through the eyes of a victim of rape at the hands of U.S. soldiers among those liberating France. Would that be an accurate, truthful, contextual account of the war against fascism? Of course not. Nevertheless, an isolated case of exactly this kind of abhorrent crime by U.S. soldiers in Iraq is being hailed as a work of art, the crowning achievement of a perverted career by director Brian De Palma, a slime bucket who should never be allowed to step foot in America, again. That's all you need to know about "Redacted,"...

"The right wing will come at this movie. I have done something that just cannot be done. You can never say anything critical of the troops."

Brian De Palma wants to stop the war, and he thinks his new movie about an Iraqi girl's rape can help, regardless of the consequences or the rights and privacy of Iraqis. In a Friday August 31 Reuters article, De Palma asserted “The movie is an attempt to bring the reality of what is happening in Iraq to the American people. Sky News online picked up the thread that he hoped his film "Redacted" will alert people about “these horrible things things that are happening, this horrible war that I am financing as an American citizen.”De Palma's comments were made...

VENICE (Reuters) - A new film about the real-life rape and killing of a 14-year-old Iraqi girl by U.S. soldiers who also murdered her family stunned the Venice festival, with shocking images that left some viewers in tears. "Redacted", by U.S. director Brian De Palma, is one of at least eight American films on the war in Iraq due for release in the next few months and the first of two movies on the conflict screening in Venice's main competition. Inspired by one of the most serious crimes committed by American soldiers in Iraq since the 2003 invasion, it is...