“Burma’s Oscar Moment”
by Danny Fisher
There’s an excellent piece about the Oscar-nominated documentary Burma VJ at Foreign Policy today. Here’s a snippet:
Over the next few days we’re going to be hearing a lot about big blue aliens and George Clooney and bomb-disposal experts in the Iraq war. But there’s another film you should be rooting for when they hand out the little gold statues on March 7.
Burma VJ hasn’t been in the headlines much. It has been making its way around the global film-festival circuit, garnering its share of awards. Still, its U.S. box office receipts to date are measured in tens of thousands of dollars, not hundreds of millions.
Let’s hope that’s about to change. The film is up for best documentary feature, and to be honest, I can’t imagine what could possibly compete.
Read the rest here.
