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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
