Английская Википедия:Burma VJ
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Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country (Шаблон:Lang-da; Шаблон:Lang-my) is a 2008 Danish documentary film directed by Anders Østergaard. It follows the Saffron Revolution against the military regime in Burma.[1] The "VJ" in the title stands for "video journalists."[2] Some of it was filmed on hand-held cameras. The footage was smuggled out of the country,[3] physically or over the Internet. Other parts of it were reconstructed, which caused controversy.[4]
Reception
Critical response
Burma VJ has an approval rating of 97% on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 62 reviews, and an average rating of 7.69/10. The website's critical consensus states, "A powerfully visceral docu-drama highlighting the evils of censorship and the essential need for freedom of speech".[5] It also has a score of 82 out of 100 on Metacritic, based on 13 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".[6]
Awards and nominations
The film won awards, especially at European film festivals, e.g. it won the Golden Apricot at the 2009 Yerevan International Film Festival, Armenia, for Best Documentary Film.[7][8] It won the World Cinema Documentary Film Editing Award at the Sundance Film Festival.[9] Burma VJ was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.[10]
Box office
The film was released to one theater on 20 May 2009 and grossed $5,554 in the opening weekend. Its widest release was in three theaters. As of 1 May 2010, the total gross stands at $123,477.[11]
DVD features
The DVD includes a message from Buddhist actor Richard Gere comparing the situation in Burma to that in Tibet.[12]
See also
References
External links
- Шаблон:Official website
- Шаблон:DFDb title
- Шаблон:IMDb title
- Burma VJ at Rotten Tomatoes
- Sundance 2009 page
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite news
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- ↑ Шаблон:Cite magazine
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- ↑ San Francisco Film Society, Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ Variety, Шаблон:Cite news
- ↑ 2009 Sundance Film Festival Шаблон:Webarchive sundance.org
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ DVD Oscilloscope Pictures OSC-012, 2010.
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