Best Documentaries Netflix Hell and Back Again

2011 flick

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

Production
companies

  • Roast Beefiness Productions
  • Thought Engine Media Group
Distributed by
  • New Video (US)
  • Independent (Uk)

Release dates

  • October 5, 2011 (2011-10-05) (The states)
  • October 12, 2011 (2011-10-12) (UK)

Running time

88 minutes[1]
Countries
  • United States
  • Great britain
  • Transitional islamic state of afghanistan
Languages
  • English
  • Pashtu
  • Dari
Box function $twoscore,634[2]

Hell and Dorsum Again is a 2011 American-British-Afghan documentary motion-picture show produced, shot, and directed past Danfung Dennis, near a sergeant in the United states of america Marines Corps who returns from the Transitional islamic state of afghanistan conflict with a desperately cleaved leg and post-traumatic stress disorder.

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

Background [edit]

Manager Dennis worked every bit a war photographer in Afghanistan start in 2006, however, he became increasingly frustrated with photojournalism. He switched to films and new media to endeavor to "shake people from their indifference to [the Afghanistan] war" and to present a "brutally honest feel 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 Visitor, 2nd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment. The unit took role in Functioning Khanjar, the then-largest air operation since the Vietnam State of war. On the get-go solar day with the Marines, he met Nathan Harris when, despite the loftier temperatures, Harris gave him his last canteen of water.[4] At starting time, the film was only focused on the situation in Afghanistan and was going to exist titled Battle for Hearts and Minds. Parts of the old film material were used for the segment "Obama's State of war" in the documentary series Frontline.

Dennis decided seven months later that Harris would exist the person around whom the documentary would revolve. At the Marines' homecoming, Harris did non 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 wife.[6]

Production [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 information technology became clear that pop images of state of war were at odds with Dennis' experiences.[7]

To create an "honest portrayal of state of war", Dennis combines the 2 storylines of the mission in Afghanistan and the situation of Nathan Harris in Due north Carolina in his documentary. Here he uses flashbacks to represent the "disorientation" and "emotional numbness" experienced "leaving a world of life and decease" and "coming back to a world that seems mundane and superficial". According to Dennis is in that location "really just one battle", at domicile and on the field, rather than two different ones.[8] In another interview he stated that he worked to combine the "ideals of photojournalism", the part of pure observer, with the "narrative of movie" to create an "immersive, visceral experience".[9]

Danfung Dennis processed many personal experiences as he did not discuss his footage with Nathan Harris. Harris got to lookout the motion-picture show later its completion.[viii] [ten]

Film 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 epitome stabilization, the focus and the fact that the camera overheated in about 15 minutes due to the high temperatures in Afghanistan. He congenital a custom camera stabilizer rig with advanced audio equipment and attached it to his body armor when he was not filming. In addition, he focused the photographic camera manually. Simply switching off the camera helped protect it against overheating. For his filming with Harris and his wife, he changed his equipment then information technology would be equally compact as possible and not intrusive.[4] [xi] He explained in an interview that his decision to utilise the Canon EOS 5D Mark II immune him to combine the "aesthetics of photography" and the "ethics of journalism" with the "narrative documentary" to create an "impressive, comprehensive feel".[7]

In Afghanistan, Dennis used a zoom lens with a focal length of 24mm to 70mm with a maximum aperture of ii.eight. Dennis founded the lens choice 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 1.iv and a 2d with a focal length of 50 mm and a maximum aperture of one.2. Due to the broad aperture he could even film in low light situations.[12]

Tone [edit]

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

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

Release [edit]

The film was released for the public on October five, 2011, after having been shown at Sundance Film Festival 2011 and the Moscow International Moving-picture show Festival 2011. The beginning weekend the film took US$3,413, where he ran first in a cinema. Total, the pic grossed United states of america$40,634.[14] The distribution rights for N America are held by Docurama Films, which released the documentation on January 24, 2012 on Blu-ray and DVD.[9] [15] The broadcasting rights for television were secured by Public Broadcasting Service. There, the documentary aired on May 24, 2012, within the picture series Independent Lens.[16] The picture was also at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, and between August 24, 2012 and August 31, 2012 in the Canadian Bloor Hot Docs Cinema.[17] [18] On October 12, 2011 the motion picture was released in the Britain, French republic followed on Dec 21, 2011.[19] [20] In the United Kingdom it grossed United states of america$315.[21] The movie theater releases in the U.k. and French republic were several broadcasts on the Spanish Idiot box station Canal+ in Apr and September 2012.[22] The only screening of the documentary in German-speaking countries took identify in Republic of austria in 2012 and 2013 at the frame[o]ut-freestyle-Filmfestival and the Filmfestival Kitzbühel.[23] [24]

Reception [edit]

The motion-picture show received critical acclaim. On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the picture show holds an approval rating of 100% based on 30 reviews, and an average rating of 7.9/ten.[25] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted boilerplate score of 81 out of 100, based on 17 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".[26]

Chicago Dominicus-Times critic Roger Ebert sums upward, the film "presents [Harris'] new reality with a stunningly good employ of video and sound editing". The final scenes were given an "emotional and stylistic power that we didn't meet coming." He therefore rated the film three and a half stars out of four possible stars.[27] Linda Barnard gave information technology 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] V. A. Musetto, a critic for the New York Post, rated the film three out of iv stars and called the documentary "assuming." The footage was "oftentimes stunning".[29] Wesley Morris, picture critic for The Boston Globe, said the flick is a "ingenious creative disturbance". Dennis' film is trying to do what has been created in only a few documentaries: to alive in the psyche of the subject. Nevertheless, the picture don't pretend to know Harris is thinking.[30] Alison Willmore compared the documentary to The Hurt Locker in a review for The A.Five. Club. Willmore called it a work of cinéma vérité with "almost distracting dazzler" and gives the film the class B.[31] 2 reviews in the newspapers The Observer and The Guardian agree with the positive tenor. Philip French indicates the picture was "painful and securely moving" and Peter Bradshaw thinks the movie doesn't agree back. Bradshaw gave it 4 out of five stars.[32] [33]

Chris Knight of the National Post had a mixed opinion. He felt manipulated past Dennis' editing. The transitions are indeed "cinematically constructive" but felt "emotionally manipulative". By not showing how the war changed Harris, the movie just 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 it as partly "distracting and obvious", but the documentation is a "universal soldier's story".[35] Both critic gave the film of two and a half stars out of four possible.

Veterans [edit]

In conjunction with the release of the documentary, the organization Disabled American Veterans launched an sensation entrada about post-traumatic stress disorder.[36] In the same way, the organization Withal 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 Over again.[37] Florida State University showed the film at a special "Veterans Twenty-four hours", which was the first of an initiative for a more veteran-friendly university.[38] At the same time the university inaugurated a "pupil veteran motion picture festival". Danfung Dennis, the producer Karol Martesko window, also as Nathan Harris and Ashley Harris took part in the event.[39] Even the veteran Association of the University of Iowa organized a screening of the documentary.[40]

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

Accolades [edit]

At the 2011 Sundance Flick Festival, the film won the Jury Prize and the Photographic camera Prize for Best Foreign Documentary. Also at the Moscow International Film Festival 2011, the film won the prize for Best Documentary. In add-on, it received documentary awards at several smaller flick festivals and award ceremonies was awarded. This included IDA Award in the category Jacqueline Donnet Emerging Filmmaker Accolade, Cinema Eye Honors prize for Outstanding Achievement In Cinematography, the Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Award 2012 and the Harrell Accolade for All-time Documentary at the Camden International Movie Festival 2011.[iv]

In addition to the awards won, the film was nominated at some movie festivals and honour ceremonies. It was nominated for Independent Spirit Award for Best Documentary Feature, and best documentary at Gotham Independent Film Awards and British Contained Film Awards. At the Cinema Center information technology was nominated in 4 categories, and won in the category of outstanding achievement in cinematography. The additional categories were outstanding accomplishment in direction, best debut feature and outstanding achievement in production.[4]

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

Hell and Back Again won the Grierson Honor 2012 in the category All-time Documentary on a Contemporary Theme – International on November half dozen, 2012.[43] On 11 July 2013, the documentary was nominated due to its appearance in the plan serial Contained Lens for a News & Documentary Emmy Award.[44]

Award Engagement of ceremony Category Recipients and nominees Result
Sundance Film Festival[45] January 29, 2011 World Movie theatre Chiliad Jury Prize: Documentary Danfung Dennis Won
World Cinema Cinematography Honour: Documentary Danfung Dennis Won
Academy Awards[46] 26 February 2012 Best Documentary Characteristic Danfung Dennis Nominated

References [edit]

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External links [edit]

  • Official website
  • Hell and Dorsum Again at IMDb
  • Hell and Back Again at Box Office Mojo
  • Hell and Back Again at Rotten Tomatoes
  • Hell and Dorsum Over again at Metacritic Edit this at Wikidata
Awards
Preceded by

The Reddish Chapel

Sundance Grand Jury Prize: World Cinema Documentary
2011
Succeeded by

The Constabulary in These Parts

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