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Spiro’s movie coming to SXSW
Austin filmmaker Ellen Spiro tells us that her acclaimed documentary “Body of War” will have its local premiere, a big “splash,” March 13 during the South by Southwest Film Festival.
The soundtrack album, titled “No More,” with new music by Eddie Vedder, will enjoy its launch at the SXSW Music Festival that same week.
Spiro co-directed “Body of War” with Phil Donahue. It has been shortlisted for a Best Feature Documentary Oscar and was named best doc of the year by the National Board of Review.
And then there’s this from the Los Angeles Times, whose critic names “Body of War” as a favorite for nabbing the Oscar nomination. He names it plus “For the Bible Tells Me So,” “Lake of Fire,” “No End in Sight,” “Sicko,” “Taxi to the Dark Side” and “War/Dance” as frontrunners for the nom.
The Times explains:
Voters love documentaries by such firebrand liberals as Michael Moore, who won for “Bowling for Columbine” in 2002 and now competes with “Sicko.” But he could be upstaged by Phil Donahue, co-producer and co-director of “Body of War,” the story of a soldier paralyzed in Iraq. He’s promoting it aggressively around Hollywood, fuming, “This has been an unaffordable, unconstitutional, unwinnable, immoral war!”
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