Operation Filmmaker
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- Synopsis
- Touched by the plight of an aspiring Iraqi filmmaker whose dreams of working in Hollywood seemed to fall with Baghdad, American filmmaker Liev Schreiber invites the ambitious wannabe director to intern on Everything Is Illuminated, to unexpected ......
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- Director(s)
- Nina Davenport
- Distributor(s)
- Icarus Films
- MPAA Rating
- Not Rated
- Runtime
- 92 min.
Critic Reviews
The Onion (A.V. Club) | Scott TobiasAdd Critic to Favorites
Operation Filmmaker takes a thrilling left turn from its original conceit, and Davenport does a nice job rolling with the punches.Read the full review
Boston Globe | Ty BurrAdd Critic to Favorites
It spreads the punishment around, from the executive suites of Hollywood to the mean streets of Baghdad. Everyone here comes out smelling bad - that's why the film's so good.Read the full review
Rolling Stone | Peter TraversAdd Critic to Favorites
This gut punch of a documentary will knock you for a loop. File it under "no good deed goes unpunished."Read the full review
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'Operation Filmmaker' Airing on PBS Tonight!
12/30/08 Moviefone I almost called this a 'Watch This' post, and then a 'Fan Rant', but either way, the general idea is that I'd recommend all of you to tune in or at least record PBS tonight for the 11 PM EST broadcast premiere of Nina Davenport's terrific documentary, Operation Filmmaker , in which a young Iraqi film student is invited to work on the set of Liev Schreiber's Everything is Illuminated and how that experience begins to unravel for all involved -- Davenport included (and that's not to mention appearances from Elijah Wood and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson as themselves!). | Cinematical.com -
indieWIRE & Industry Top 10s for 2008
12/30/08 A final look back at 2008... this time featuring top ten lists from the editors of indieWIRE and industry insiders. | indieWIRE -
On DVD: "Woman on the Beach," "Operation Filmmaker"
12/29/08 As the Korean New Wave fades and dissipates, from a throng of cultural force fields to a mere battery of individual filmographies, ambitious or withering or otherwise, one director stands as the most passionately embraced and steadily distributed in the tradition of imported art films. | Independent Film Channel (IFC) -
Discuss: Dwayne Johnson, Philanthropist
06/17/08 Moviefone Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson owes at least some of his fame to the way his dominating figure fits the blockbuster action stereotype with near-mechanical sleekness. | Cinematical.com
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