Posted by The Movie God Hollywood has produced countless war films over the decades. From some of the earliest of wars shown in movies like Braveheart and Kingdom of Heaven, to more modern wars depicted in movies like Platoon, Black Hawk Down, Apocalypse Now, Full...
Last Friday at the Angelika Film Center Severe Clear, Kristian Fraga’s incisive on-the-ground documentary of a U.S. Marine battalion during early phases of the Iraq War opened. Working exclusively with First Lieutenant Mike Scotti’s first-person video footage and...
Hollywood has created countless war films over the decades. Some of the earliest wars were shown in movies which were Braveheart, Kingdom of Heaven to more modern wars in Platoon, Apocalyse Now, Black Hack Down etc etc.. The list is endless. These movies have shown...
A Marine Searches for Meaning in the Sands and ‘Steel Rain’ of Iraq By Stephen Holden “Here is the truth about being a Marine that you won’t find on the local news. We’re loud. We drink too much, fight too much and swear too much. Truth be told, our rifles are the...
A Marine documents his experiences in Iraq. by Elizabeth Weitzman With the exception of “The Hurt Locker,” the best pictures about the Iraq War have been documentaries. Most fictional films simply can’t capture the immediacy of the experience the way a raw chronicle...
‘Severe Clear’ movie review: Marine’s video journal is transformed into realistic war film By Stephen Whitty In 1990, Vietnam vet Tim O’Brien published “The Things They Carried,” an interlocking collection of stories about soldiers in combat. His characters weren’t...
By RONNIE SCHEIB Kristian Fraga’s ‘Severe Clear’ looks at the early days of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, as captured by Marine 1st Lt. Mike Scotti. A Sirk production. Produced by Marc J. Perez, Kristian Fraga. Executive producers, John L. Sikes, Benjamin Charbit....
By Aaron Hillis Tuesday, Mar 9 2010 Between the past few years’ worth of Iraq War docs and on-the-ground TV reports, it’s easy to collectively believe that we definitively understand the monotonous yet dangerous daily existence of U.S. soldiers in the Middle East....
By Simon Abrams Considering how frequently First Lieutenant Mike Scotti interrupts the footage he shot during the preliminary days of the US invasion of Iraq in 2004 in Severe Clear with narration, it’s hard to think of him as the film’s subject and not its author....
Critic Pick – Severe Clear This visceral, gripping doc uses footage shot in Iraq to give us a clear-eyed, brutal, but decidedly unpoliticized look at the reality of war. – Miranda Siegel, New York Magazine
