Hearts and Minds (Blu-ray + DVD) R
The Forever War. Goes On
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Blu-ray Details
- Number of Discs: 3
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 52 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: June 17, 2014
- Originally Released: 2014
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Directed by | Peter Davis | |
Edited by | Lynzee Klingman | |
Produced by | Bert Schneider & Peter Davis | |
Director of Photography: | Richard Pearce |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1974 -
Best Documentary Feature: Not Applicable
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: A- --
Peter Davis' Oscar-winning feature is a must-see documentary about Vietnam.
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EmanuelLevy.Com
Davis' film showed, with devastating clarity, how the war for the hearts and minds of the Vietnamese had been lost beyond recall -- and how something similar was taking place in America.
Sight and Sound
Rating: 3/4 --
We're bludgeoned by the point of view, we don't like the feeling of manipulation we get. Yet there are scenes here of incredible power, even for a nation which watched this war on television every evening.
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Chicago Sun-Times
Rating: 4/5 --
Hearts and Minds is a tough film but it is no mere rehash of sad events. It is always aware of the primacy of man when man's given even half a chance.
New York Times
Rating: 5/5 --
It's a cinematic essay of constant movement and provocation, a record of one man finding his way through the fog of war.
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The Dissolve
The faces, intonations, backgrounds of Hearts and Minds -- even its small gestures and sometimes very long pauses -- speak as eloquently as its words.
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Esquire Magazine
It’s a testament to HEARTS AND MINDS’ artistry that the film remains compelling long after there’s any need for it to make a case... -- Grade: B+
A.V. Club
Product Description:
A landmark in documentary feature films, this Academy Award-winning documentary is an insightful critique of the US's cataclysmic involvement in Vietnam. The film exposes the duplicitous nature of the American government, obsessive in its quest to squelch Communism and advance its own imperialist agenda, documented here in a media-savvy trail of propaganda ranging from archival footage, excerpts from press conferences, newsreels, and clips from jingoistic Hollywood war pictures. Director Peter Davis also uses damaging interviews (including disturbingly racist comments from US soldiers and General William Westmoreland), pop music from the period, and material he shot himself in Vietnam to create an indelible visual essay against war. Eschewing narration, the film has a cinema verite style, which gains its power from juxtaposition and the severity of its images. Released only two short years after the January 1973 agreement that brought home U.S. troops, the film stands as one of the strongest films condemning the war and the America's involvement in it. HEARTS AND MINDS's title derives from a now-infamous speech given by former President Lyndon Johnson in which he stated, "The ultimate victory will depend on the hearts and minds of the people who actually live there."