The Killer.How do you make a good movie in this country and be jumped on?Once, in 1967, in the opener for her Bonnie and Clyde review, Pauline Kael asked the opposite question: “How do you make a good movie in this country without being jumped on?” Now, times have changed. Nothing provokes us to jump and say, “Hold the torches! That’s the key! The way forward.”An automatic film like David Fincher’s new thriller, The Killer, comes and goes with the velocity of a Twitter news cycle: about six fervent days of talk. (The seventh and beyond? Fits and bursts of takes amid miles of silence.) Whether you think it’s good or bad, The Killer has not lingered in the popular consciousness. And I can’t imagine it lingering. It might have passed me by with the similarly fleeting presence of recent moving-image works like Richard Linklater...
- 1/3/2024
- MUBI
The recent verdict in Mr. George Floyd’s assassination case was a relief, but it also marks the harrowing perpetuation of past injustices that keep Black people in a state of constant anger, frustration and fear. Like some emotional “carpet-bombing,” this rage is pinning us down and obstructs our ability to see that the king is naked.
In my recent HBO film, Exterminate All the Brutes, where I explore the origin of white supremacy, the late author Sven Lindqvist — whose book of the same name inspired the movie’s title — rightly observes: “It is not knowledge we lack. What is missing ...
In my recent HBO film, Exterminate All the Brutes, where I explore the origin of white supremacy, the late author Sven Lindqvist — whose book of the same name inspired the movie’s title — rightly observes: “It is not knowledge we lack. What is missing ...
The recent verdict in Mr. George Floyd’s assassination case was a relief, but it also marks the harrowing perpetuation of past injustices that keep Black people in a state of constant anger, frustration and fear. Like some emotional “carpet-bombing,” this rage is pinning us down and obstructs our ability to see that the king is naked.
In my recent HBO film, Exterminate All the Brutes, where I explore the origin of white supremacy, the late author Sven Lindqvist — whose book of the same name inspired the movie’s title — rightly observes: “It is not knowledge we lack. What is missing ...
In my recent HBO film, Exterminate All the Brutes, where I explore the origin of white supremacy, the late author Sven Lindqvist — whose book of the same name inspired the movie’s title — rightly observes: “It is not knowledge we lack. What is missing ...
Raoul Peck’s four-part HBO documentary series besieges the romantic myth of the United States, chronicling the bloody arc of imperialism using documentary footage, movie references, needle drops, and narration, all with concentrated precision. Blistering and dense, “Exterminate All the Brutes,” picks up where his “I Am Not Your Negro” left off with its unsparing deletion of accepted falsehoods.
From the first Crusades to the current racial landscape of America, Peck identifies centuries of oppression forced upon Black and Indigenous people and narrates an ever-shifting arrangement of historical atrocities that chart the rise of scientific racism. It’s a sprawling academic narrative, but it’s Peck who makes it approachable with his own passion and ambition.
Stylistically, the docuseries is as broad as its timeline. Peck combines reenactments of historical events, provocative fictionalizations, arresting documentary footage, and animation. There’s also self-reflective references to his own films and comedic callbacks to other movies.
From the first Crusades to the current racial landscape of America, Peck identifies centuries of oppression forced upon Black and Indigenous people and narrates an ever-shifting arrangement of historical atrocities that chart the rise of scientific racism. It’s a sprawling academic narrative, but it’s Peck who makes it approachable with his own passion and ambition.
Stylistically, the docuseries is as broad as its timeline. Peck combines reenactments of historical events, provocative fictionalizations, arresting documentary footage, and animation. There’s also self-reflective references to his own films and comedic callbacks to other movies.
- 4/7/2021
- by Robert Daniels
- Indiewire
Raoul Peck is a director who feels deep and evident comfort bringing together different manners of storytelling. His 2016 documentary about James Baldwin, “I Am Not Your Negro,” was notable not merely for the brilliance and insight of Baldwin but for its blending of the late author’s recollections with narration and explication of the times in which Baldwin lived and the figures who were his contemporaries. Over a relatively short running time, the film’s braided threads of history, of commentary, of context, and of eloquently phrased anger came together to become more — more powerful and more insightful — than even an optimistic moviegoer might have expected.
On HBO, Peck attempts to bring his maximalism to an even grander target. With the new four-part series “Exterminate All the Brutes,” he goes beyond even the ambitious goal of using the words of a single writer to explain racism in America. He brings...
On HBO, Peck attempts to bring his maximalism to an even grander target. With the new four-part series “Exterminate All the Brutes,” he goes beyond even the ambitious goal of using the words of a single writer to explain racism in America. He brings...
- 4/7/2021
- by Daniel D'Addario
- Variety Film + TV
We’ve spent a year inside watching our televisions and, as the world opens up and the weather warms, most of us are eager to step out a bit. That makes the entertainment industry’s job that much harder. It’s one thing to compete against other shows and movies, but how do you compete with the world at large after a year of isolation?
Fortunately, audiences can’t stay outside all the time. Even more fortunate: this April is bringing a lot of promising offerings to screens small and large,...
Fortunately, audiences can’t stay outside all the time. Even more fortunate: this April is bringing a lot of promising offerings to screens small and large,...
- 3/30/2021
- by Keith Phipps
- Rollingstone.com
“We would prefer for genocide to have begun and ended with Nazism,” muses filmmaker Raoul Peck in the voiceover that steers his four-part hybrid docuseries Exterminate All the Brutes (HBO). “This would indeed be most comforting.” But genocide was made a prerequisite for the establishment and expansion of America — a fact as obvious to some as it is unacceptable to others. Drawing on the work of historian Sven Lindqvist, from whose 1992 book (and a line from Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness) Peck takes the title of his project, the I Am Not Your Negro director argues that,...
- 3/30/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
“We would prefer for genocide to have begun and ended with Nazism,” muses filmmaker Raoul Peck in the voiceover that steers his four-part hybrid docuseries Exterminate All the Brutes (HBO). “This would indeed be most comforting.” But genocide was made a prerequisite for the establishment and expansion of America — a fact as obvious to some as it is unacceptable to others. Drawing on the work of historian Sven Lindqvist, from whose 1992 book (and a line from Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness) Peck takes the title of his project, the I Am Not Your Negro director argues that,...
- 3/30/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
“I Am Not Your Negro” director Raoul Peck is debuting a new four-episode docuseries on colonialism, which will revisit the history of Native American genocide and American slavery to reframe their fundamental present day implications. HBO Documentary Films released the first trailer today for “Exterminate All the Brutes,” a timely and artistically bold new series from the Oscar-nominated filmmaker.
Here’s the official description from HBO: “A four-part series that provides a visually arresting journey through time, into the darkest hours of humanity. Through his personal voyage, Peck deconstructs the making and masking of history, digging deep into the exploitative and genocidal aspects of European colonialism – from America to Africa and its impact on society today – challenging the audience to re-think the very notion of how history is being written.”
The series is based on three books: Sven Lindqvist’s “Exterminate All the Brutes,” Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz’s “An Indigenous Peoples...
Here’s the official description from HBO: “A four-part series that provides a visually arresting journey through time, into the darkest hours of humanity. Through his personal voyage, Peck deconstructs the making and masking of history, digging deep into the exploitative and genocidal aspects of European colonialism – from America to Africa and its impact on society today – challenging the audience to re-think the very notion of how history is being written.”
The series is based on three books: Sven Lindqvist’s “Exterminate All the Brutes,” Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz’s “An Indigenous Peoples...
- 3/23/2021
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
Raoul Peck, the Oscar-nominated director of I Am Not Your Negro, is teaming with HBO for Exterminate All the Brutes, an ambitious four-part hybrid docuseries that will explore the exploitative and genocidal aspects of European colonialism.
The project is being culled from three books: Sven Lindqvist’s Exterminate All the Brutes, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz’s An Indigenous People’s History of the United States and Michel-Rolph Trouillot’s Silencing the Past. The series will draw from documentary footage and archival material along with animation and interpretive scripted scenes, with Josh Hartnett to play the lead role in the latter sections.
The aim is to tell a sweeping story from America to Africa in which history, contemporary life and fiction are intertwined. Peck will deconstruct the making and masking of history through a personal voyage into some of the darkest hours of humanity.
“This project has been my biggest challenge so far,...
The project is being culled from three books: Sven Lindqvist’s Exterminate All the Brutes, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz’s An Indigenous People’s History of the United States and Michel-Rolph Trouillot’s Silencing the Past. The series will draw from documentary footage and archival material along with animation and interpretive scripted scenes, with Josh Hartnett to play the lead role in the latter sections.
The aim is to tell a sweeping story from America to Africa in which history, contemporary life and fiction are intertwined. Peck will deconstruct the making and masking of history through a personal voyage into some of the darkest hours of humanity.
“This project has been my biggest challenge so far,...
- 2/18/2020
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Raoul Peck is bringing his four-part series “Exterminate All the Brutes” to HBO.
The project is described as an exploration of the exploitative and genocidal aspects of European colonialism. It will feature documentary footage and archival material as well as original animation and interpretive scripted scenes. Josh Hartnett will play the lead role in the scripted portions.
“This project has been my biggest challenge so far,” Peck said. “It forced me to question not only our common knowledge but also my own experience as a filmmaker. I’m excited that HBO is supporting that vision.”
The series is based on three works by authors and scholars: Sven Lindqvist’s “Exterminate All the Brutes,” Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz’s “An Indigenous People’s History of the United States,” and Michel-Rolph Trouillot’s “Silencing the Past.”
“Exterminate All the Brutes” is produced by Velvet Film. Peck and Rémi Grellety serve as executive producers. Velvet...
The project is described as an exploration of the exploitative and genocidal aspects of European colonialism. It will feature documentary footage and archival material as well as original animation and interpretive scripted scenes. Josh Hartnett will play the lead role in the scripted portions.
“This project has been my biggest challenge so far,” Peck said. “It forced me to question not only our common knowledge but also my own experience as a filmmaker. I’m excited that HBO is supporting that vision.”
The series is based on three works by authors and scholars: Sven Lindqvist’s “Exterminate All the Brutes,” Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz’s “An Indigenous People’s History of the United States,” and Michel-Rolph Trouillot’s “Silencing the Past.”
“Exterminate All the Brutes” is produced by Velvet Film. Peck and Rémi Grellety serve as executive producers. Velvet...
- 2/18/2020
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
HBO is re-teaming with Raoul Peck on a four-part docuseries “Exterminate All the Brutes,” which explores European colonialism.
The series is based on three works by authors and scholars: Sven Lindqvist’s “Exterminate All the Brutes,'; Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz’s “An Indigenous People’s History of the United States” and Michel-Rolph Trouillot’s “Silencing the Past.” “Exterminate All the Brutes” weaves together documentary footage and archival material, as well as animation and interpretive scripted scenes. The series aims to tell a sweeping story in which history, contemporary life and fiction are wholly intertwined.
Josh Hartnett will star in the scripted portions of the series.
Also Read: HBO's 'Plot Against America' Trailer: Alternate Timeline Sees Charles Lindbergh and 'Jew-Haters' Take Over U.S. (Video)
“This project has been my biggest challenge so far,” Peck said. “It forced me to question not only our common knowledge but also my own experience as a filmmaker.
The series is based on three works by authors and scholars: Sven Lindqvist’s “Exterminate All the Brutes,'; Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz’s “An Indigenous People’s History of the United States” and Michel-Rolph Trouillot’s “Silencing the Past.” “Exterminate All the Brutes” weaves together documentary footage and archival material, as well as animation and interpretive scripted scenes. The series aims to tell a sweeping story in which history, contemporary life and fiction are wholly intertwined.
Josh Hartnett will star in the scripted portions of the series.
Also Read: HBO's 'Plot Against America' Trailer: Alternate Timeline Sees Charles Lindbergh and 'Jew-Haters' Take Over U.S. (Video)
“This project has been my biggest challenge so far,” Peck said. “It forced me to question not only our common knowledge but also my own experience as a filmmaker.
- 2/18/2020
- by Tim Baysinger
- The Wrap
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