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McCullin
Released: 01/01/2013
Released in Key Cities
From 1966 to 1984 Don McCullin served as the Sunday Times Magazine’s foreign correspondent and is known as one of the world’s preeminent war photographers – reporting from Vietnam, Northern Ireland, Lebanon and beyond. Directed by siblings Jacqui and David Morris, this doc echoes McCullin’s working style: a small crew, all natural light and no digital manipulation.
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The Observer“An excellent documentary...” What dominates the film are the black-and-white still images. They engrave themselves on our minds, and McCullin talks about them with great feeling and frankness...
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Little White Lies“A fascinating cine memoir...” Presents a potted history of twentieth-century politics as seen through the unflinching lens of a self-confessed 'war junkie' with an apparently muddy conscience...
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The Independent“The directors have done a good, unfussy job with dynamite material...” This searching documentary portrait of the photographer Don McCullin is also, necessarily, a distillation of the most harrowing atrocities witnessed since the Second World War...
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The Telegraph“A thought-provoking career retrospective...” His recollections are as sobering as his images, and a great many of both will embed themselves in your head...
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Financial Times“A labour of love with both words operative...” Add Melvyn Bragg and you’d have a South Bank Show essay in mutual admiration. Even a rose needs, or is completed by, its thorns...
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Empire“A terrific tribute to one of modern history's greatest eyewitnesses...” This doc works as both chronicle of late-20th century combat and exposé of the moral dilemmas he faced. Unflinching, harrowing and gripping...
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Radio Times“A compelling documentary...” The passing years have obviously given the veteran snapper time to reflect, and he proves a forcefully articulate interviewee...
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Total Film “Powerful...” Defined by his Sunday Times editor Sir Harold Evans as “a conscience with a camera,” the septuagenarian McCullin emerges in David and Jacqui Morris’ accomplished film full of integrity, dignity and empathy...
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Time Out film“Impressive...” watching McCullin talk about the dignity of the people he photographs, I’m not surprised they let him into the most unimaginably harrowing moments of their lives. You would. McCullin also shows us some of his photos taken closer to home...
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Guardian“An excellent documentary portrait...” McCullin emerges as an unsentimental, plain-speaking, thoughtful man, disgusted at the inhumanity of war – and yet candid about how he is also personally and professionally drawn to its drama. He is haunted by what he has seen...
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