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'Battle in Seattle': At Last, Our WTO Protests Hit the Silver Screennew
I'd love to tell you that Battle is a feat of guerrilla filmmaking or a Godardian critique of international capitalism, but it's conventional to its core.
Seattle Weekly |
Brian Miller |
09-22-2008 |
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'Battle in Seattle': Free-Trade Aggrievementnew
The riots begin early in Battle in Seattle, and not 20 minutes into Stuart Townsend's portrayal of the 1999 World Trade Organization protests, there's a doomsday exchange between the city’s police chief and its freaked-out mayor.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
09-18-2008 |
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'Battle In Seattle' Examines the WTO
A searing fictionalized telling of America's most recently effective public protest at 1999's WTO convention in Seattle, writer/director Stuart Townsend's debut feature makes a point of tracing the WTO's global stranglehold to its post WWII roots.
Tags: Stuart Townsend, Battle In Seattle
Screenwriter Daniel Taplitz Makes Screwball Comedy Less Screwynew
Working outside of mainstream chick flicks (You've Got Mail), hipster flicks (Before Sunrise) and chump flicks (Knocked Up), Taplitz has pursued questions of attraction and commitment through personal language and neurotic obsession.
New York Press |
Armond White |
04-17-2008 |
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