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Walking to Hell and Back Again

2011 moving-picture show

Hell and Back Over again
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Directed by Danfung Dennis
Produced by
  • Danfung Dennis
  • Martin Herring
  • Mike Lerner
Cinematography Danfung Dennis
Edited past Fiona Otway
Music by J. Ralph

Production
companies
  • Roast Beef Productions
  • Thought Engine Media Group
Distributed by
  • New Video (U.s.a.)
  • Independent (Uk)

Release dates
  • October v, 2011 (2011-10-05) (United states)
  • October 12, 2011 (2011-x-12) (UK)

Running fourth dimension

 88 minutes[1]
Countries
  • Usa
  • Great britain
  • Transitional islamic state of afghanistan
Languages
  • English
  • Pashtu
  • Dari
Box role $40,634[2]

Hell and Back Once more is a 2011 American-British-Afghan documentary film produced, shot, and directed past Danfung Dennis, most a sergeant in the United States Marines Corps who returns from the Transitional islamic state of afghanistan disharmonize with a badly broken leg and post-traumatic stress disorder.

On January 24, 2012, the film was announced equally one of the five nominees for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.[3]

Background [edit]

Director Dennis worked every bit a war photographer in Afghanistan beginning in 2006, withal, he became increasingly frustrated with photojournalism. He switched to films and new media to try to "shake people from their indifference to [the Afghanistan] war" and to present a "brutally honest experience of state of war". Dennis already had begun filming for some time when he was given the opportunity in July 2009 to spend four weeks with the U.S. Marines Echo Company, 2d Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment. The unit took part in Operation Khanjar, the then-largest air performance since the Vietnam War. On the starting time day with the Marines, he met Nathan Harris when, despite the high temperatures, Harris gave him his concluding bottle of water.[iv] At first, the film was only focused on the situation in Afghanistan and was going to be titled Battle for Hearts and Minds. Parts of the former pic cloth were used for the segment "Obama's War" in the documentary series Frontline.

Dennis decided vii months after that Harris would be the person around whom the documentary would revolve. At the Marines' homecoming, Harris did not get off the bus, at which point Dennis learned Harris had been wounded.[five] He made contact with Harris after this and invited Dennis to his dwelling. Dennis spent a total of a year with Harris and his married woman.[6]

Product [edit]

Visual style [edit]

In six months, approximately 100 hours of footage was shot. Dennis and editor Fiona Otway worked closely in the formulation of the visual style. They discussed their views about the war, where it became articulate that popular images of war were at odds with Dennis' experiences.[7]

To create an "honest portrayal of war", Dennis combines the two storylines of the mission in Afghanistan and the situation of Nathan Harris in North Carolina in his documentary. Here he uses flashbacks to represent the "disorientation" and "emotional numbness" experienced "leaving a world of life and death" and "coming back to a globe that seems mundane and superficial". According to Dennis is there "really only one boxing", at home and on the field, rather than 2 different ones.[8] In some other interview he stated that he worked to combine the "ethics of photojournalism", the role of pure observer, with the "narrative of film" to create an "immersive, visceral experience".[nine]

Danfung Dennis processed many personal experiences equally he did not discuss his footage with Nathan Harris. Harris got to watch the movie subsequently its completion.[eight] [ten]

Moving-picture show technique [edit]

The documentary was filmed with a Catechism EOS 5D Mark II in its entirety. This presented Dennis some challenges, he especially noted the sound, the image stabilization, the focus and the fact that the camera overheated in about fifteen minutes due to the high temperatures in Afghanistan. He built a custom camera stabilizer rig with advanced sound equipment and attached information technology to his body armor when he was not filming. In addition, he focused the camera manually. Simply switching off the camera helped protect information technology confronting overheating. For his filming with Harris and his wife, he changed his equipment so information technology would be as compact as possible and non intrusive.[iv] [11] He explained in an interview that his determination to apply the Canon EOS 5D Marker Two immune him to combine the "aesthetics of photography" and the "ethics of journalism" with the "narrative documentary" to create an "impressive, comprehensive experience".[7]

In Afghanistan, Dennis used a zoom lens with a focal length of 24mm to 70mm with a maximum aperture of 2.viii. Dennis founded the lens option with the "diversity necessary to get wide and tight shots". He used 2 normal lenses in Yadkinville: a lens with a focal length of 35mm with a maximum aperture of ane.4 and a 2d with a focal length of 50 mm and a maximum aperture of 1.2. Due to the wide aperture he could even movie in low calorie-free situations.[12]

Tone [edit]

There is no music in the classical sense in the flick. Dennis used only natural sounds as groundwork music, which he picked up in Afghanistan and in part significantly altered (see musique concrète). A scene in the film, in which a village is secured, is under-laid with actual sounds of war-fighting which were slowed down to two% of their original speed. This results in a "persistent drone". Dennis used the same drone in the groundwork of a conversation between Harris and his physician regarding the dangers of painkillers. He tries [to blur] "the line between past and nowadays through sound alone". Dennis stated that Harris' flashbacks "often begin with a sound". He was trying to "convey what information technology feels similar to actually have a flashback".[13]

Dennis and the sound designer J. Ralph worked closely for the picture show, as did Dennis and editor Fiona Otway. Ralph also wrote the vocal "Hell And Back", heard during the end credits. The performer of the song is Willie Nelson.

Release [edit]

The film was released for the public on October 5, 2011, subsequently having been shown at Sundance Film Festival 2011 and the Moscow International Film Festival 2011. The first weekend the film took US$three,413, where he ran first in a movie theater. Total, the picture grossed US$twoscore,634.[fourteen] The distribution rights for North America are held past Docurama Films, which released the documentation on Jan 24, 2012 on Blu-ray and DVD.[9] [15] The broadcasting rights for idiot box were secured by Public Dissemination Service. There, the documentary aired on May 24, 2012, within the moving-picture show series Independent Lens.[16] The movie was also at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, and between Baronial 24, 2012 and Baronial 31, 2012 in the Canadian Bloor Hot Docs Movie house.[17] [eighteen] On October 12, 2011 the film was released in the UK, French republic followed on December 21, 2011.[19] [twenty] In the Britain information technology grossed US$315.[21] The cinema releases in the Uk and French republic were several broadcasts on the Spanish TV station Canal+ in April and September 2012.[22] The merely screening of the documentary in High german-speaking countries took place in Republic of austria in 2012 and 2013 at the frame[o]ut-freestyle-Filmfestival and the Filmfestival Kitzbühel.[23] [24]

Reception [edit]

The film received disquisitional acclaim. On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 100% based on 30 reviews, and an average rating of seven.ix/10.[25] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 81 out of 100, based on 17 critics, indicating "universal acclamation".[26]

Chicago Lord's day-Times critic Roger Ebert sums up, the motion picture "presents [Harris'] new reality with a stunningly good use of video and sound editing". The last scenes were given an "emotional and stylistic power that we didn't run into coming." He therefore rated the film three and a one-half stars out of four possible stars.[27] Linda Barnard gave it the same rating in a review for the Toronto Star, where she certifies Dennis to handle Harris' story, though this was approaches his subject "with a journalist's impartiality even as he crafts an emotionally shattering story".[28] 5. A. Musetto, a critic for the New York Post, rated the moving picture three out of 4 stars and called the documentary "bold." The footage was "often stunning".[29] Wesley Morris, film critic for The Boston Globe, said the picture show is a "ingenious artistic disturbance". Dennis' film is trying to exercise what has been created in only a few documentaries: to live in the psyche of the subject. Nonetheless, the flick don't pretend to know Harris is thinking.[xxx] Alison Willmore compared the documentary to The Injure Locker in a review for The A.V. Club. Willmore chosen it a work of cinéma vérité with "most distracting dazzler" and gives the pic the grade B.[31] Ii reviews in the newspapers The Observer and The Guardian concord with the positive tenor. Philip French indicates the film was "painful and deeply moving" and Peter Bradshaw thinks the picture doesn't concur back. Bradshaw gave it four out of 5 stars.[32] [33]

Chris Knight of the National Mail service had a mixed stance. He felt manipulated by Dennis' editing. The transitions are indeed "cinematically effective" but felt "emotionally manipulative". By not showing how the war changed Harris, the movie only showed "two-thirds of the picture" was "crying out for a prelapsarian prologue".[34] Lauren Wissot, critic for Slant Magazine, criticized the editing technique and labeled information technology equally partly "distracting and obvious", but the documentation is a "universal soldier'south story".[35] Both critic gave the moving-picture show of two and a half stars out of four possible.

Veterans [edit]

In conjunction with the release of the documentary, the organisation Disabled American Veterans launched an awareness campaign nearly post-traumatic stress disorder.[36] In the same way, the system Still Serving Veterans used the film to increase the attention for soldiers with mail-traumatic stress disorder and organized for this purpose a public screening of Hell and Back Once more.[37] Florida State University showed the flick at a special "Veterans Day", which was the start of an initiative for a more veteran-friendly university.[38] At the aforementioned time the university inaugurated a "student veteran film festival". Danfung Dennis, the producer Karol Martesko window, as well as Nathan Harris and Ashley Harris took function in the result.[39] Even the veteran Association of the University of Iowa organized a screening of the documentary.[twoscore]

REACT to FILM launched its Higher Action Network with a screening of Hell and Back Again at American Academy in Washington, D.C. on September 21, 2011. Managing director Danfung Dennis spoke to the audience both at the launch outcome, and in-person and via Skype at subsequent College Action Network screenings across the state.[41]

Accolades [edit]

At the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, the film won the Jury Prize and the Photographic camera Prize for All-time Foreign Documentary. Also at the Moscow International Film Festival 2011, the motion-picture show won the prize for All-time Documentary. In addition, information technology received documentary awards at several smaller film festivals and accolade ceremonies was awarded. This included IDA Award in the category Jacqueline Donnet Emerging Filmmaker Honor, Cinema Eye Honors prize for Outstanding Achievement In Cinematography, the Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Award 2012 and the Harrell Award for All-time Documentary at the Camden International Picture Festival 2011.[4]

In addition to the awards won, the film was nominated at some motion-picture show festivals and award ceremonies. Information technology was nominated for Independent Spirit Award for Best Documentary Characteristic, and best documentary at Gotham Independent Picture show Awards and British Contained Film Awards. At the Cinema Heart it was nominated in iv categories, and won in the category of outstanding achievement in cinematography. The additional categories were outstanding achievement in direction, best debut feature and outstanding achievement in production.[four]

On Jan 24, 2012, the motion picture was nominated for an Academy Award in the category of Best Documentary, only lost to the American contribution Undefeated. In response to the nomination, producer Mike Lerner received a congratulation letter of the alphabet from British Prime number Minister David Cameron.[42]

Hell and Dorsum Again won the Grierson Award 2012 in the category Best Documentary on a Contemporary Theme – International on November 6, 2012.[43] On 11 July 2013, the documentary was nominated due to its appearance in the program series Independent Lens for a News & Documentary Emmy Award.[44]

Award Date of ceremony Category Recipients and nominees Result
Sundance Film Festival[45] Jan 29, 2011 World Picture palace Grand Jury Prize: Documentary Danfung Dennis Won
World Cinema Cinematography Honor: Documentary Danfung Dennis Won
Academy Awards[46] 26 February 2012 Best Documentary Feature Danfung Dennis Nominated

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External links [edit]

  • Official website
  • Hell and Back Again at IMDb
  • Hell and Back Over again at Box Role Mojo
  • Hell and Dorsum Again at Rotten Tomatoes
  • Hell and Dorsum Once more at Metacritic
Awards
Preceded by

The Red Chapel

Sundance Grand Jury Prize: World Movie house Documentary
2011 		Succeeded by

The Law in These Parts

Walking to Hell and Back Again

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell_and_Back_Again