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Missing
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Manufacturer: Universal Pictures
Starring: Jack Lemmon, Sissy Spacek, Melanie Mayron, John Shea, Charles Cioffi
Directed By: Costa-Gavras
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Universal
EAN: 9780783299884
Format: Color
ISBN: 0783299885
Label: Universal Pictures
Manufacturer: Universal Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Universal Pictures
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2004-11-23
Running Time: 122
Studio: Universal Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: 1982
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A u.S. Businessman and his daughter-in-law search chile for his left-wing journalist son. Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 11/23/2004 Starring: Jack Lemmon John Shea Run time: 122 minutes Rating: Pg Director: Costa-gavras
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Summary: A Powerful Critique of U.S. Foreign Policy
Comment: Costa-Gavras' Missing was part of an exciting trend in early 1980s cinema that included films like The Year of Living Dangerously, Under Fire, The Killing Fields, and Salvador (Special Edition) - powerful, politically-charged exposes of injustices happening all over the world.
The first disc includes a theatrical trailer.
The second disc starts off with two video interviews with Costa-Gavras - one done just after Missing's U.S. premiere and one done for the 2006 French DVD. In the first interview, he addresses the controversy surrounding the film - the U.S. administration did not like the parallels to the situation in El Salvador at the time. The second interview features the director talking about the origins of the project.
Charles' wife, Joyce Horman (played by Sissy Spacek in the film) is interviewed and talks about the accuracy of Missing. She feels that it was lenient on the portrayal of the U.S. government. Joyce talks about how and why she and Charles were in Chile. She also offers her impressions of what it was like there at the time.
"Producing Missing" features producers Edward and Mildred Lewis and Sean Daniel, and writer Thomas Hauser, author of the film's source book, discussing the making of the film. The Lewis' talk about how Hauser's book motivated them to get the film made. Hauser talks about what drew him to the Charles' story. This is an excellent look at how the film came together by the people who worked on it.
"1982 Cannes Film Festival" features Costa-Gavras, Jack Lemmon, Ed and Joyce Horman with family friend Terry Simon are interviewed at the festival. Lemmon talks about what drew him to the film while the Hormans talk about their experiences and what they think of the film.
"Pursuing the Truth" is an interview with Peter Kornbluh, director of the National Security Archive's Chile Documentation Project. He talks about declassified documents pertaining to the U.S.' involvement in the execution of Charles. Kornbluh provides fascinating background to the political background of the film. He also examines how the film is very critical of U.S. involvement in Chile and they helped bring about a coup d'etat.
Finally, there is "In Honor of Missing," an excerpt from a 2002 event by the Charles Horman Truth Project to support efforts to bring General Augusto Pinochet and others to justice for human rights violations. Actor Gabriel Byrne hosts the ceremony and talks about how the film changed him. Costa-Gavras and some of the stars from the film also speak.
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Summary: BASED ON A TRUE STORY
Comment: Missing
The true, unsolved story of the disappearance of US journalist Charles Horman in Chile, gives Jack Lemmon the best role in his career. Lemmon plays Ed Horman whose son Charlie, was a somewhat radical writer living in Chile with his wife, Joyse, at the time of the 1973 coup when President Allende was butchered and his struggling government overthrown.
Young Horman was suspicious about the number of top-ranking American Military Officials staying in Chile at the time and could only assume the worst. Not long afterward Horman vanished, apparently another man who knew too much. This was COSTA GRAVAS FIRST AMERICAN MOVIE.
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Summary: Brilliantly Acted
Comment: The first 2 reviews are excellent; so with regards to content and details I have nothing to add. So I thought I'd take a different approach. With regards to the performances in this film, they are simply stunning - this made for a powerful piece of cinema...
In this day of CGI-made films, focus groups choosing endings, studios picking people for roles based on revenue, movies with parts II, III, IV, etc, this is a throwback to real cinema. Similarly, No Country for Old Men qualifies as a modern day masterpiece - when the acting is brilliant, and there's a good story we have a recipe for a fantastic film.
Sadly this film is not just fiction: it is about a topic which is all too real. A sad comment on repressive regimes and the complexities and dangers of supporting regimes for political reasons. More than that, the personal story illustrates it more powerfully perhaps that a documentary ever could. And I am a huge fan of documentaries.
This review is not a detailed one, it is mostly my personal experience and thoughts on how this film affected me - it has no info with respect to the Criterion release - it is an appeal in support of one of my favorite films of all time.
My only quibble would be that Criterion has already announced pre-releases for their first Bluray discs in November - my impatient nature wants a Bluray release (especially because I like this film so much) but then again a fine piece of cinema like this would not NEED the added visual appeal to enhance the power of the film. I just want it anyway...because I want the experience of this film to be at it's possible best.
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Summary: Shock and Awe: the First Round
Comment: Charles Horman, the young man whose "disappearance" following the murderous right-wing coup in Chile is the subject of this powerful film, was a classmate and friend of mine at Harvard College. After graduation, I didn't keep in touch with Charlie. In fact, the first I heard of his fate at the hands of the butcher Pinochet was when this movie was released. Needless to say, it was the most traumatic experience I've ever had at the cinema.
Ironically, one of the other young men at Harvard in the early 1960s was the son of Milton Friedman, the University of Chicago economist whose economic dogma of absolutist capitalist had almost as much to do with the death of Charles Horman and of the thousands of others who "disappeared" into CIA files and unmarked mass graves in Chile, Argentina, and Brazil. I can't remember for sure whether Charlie, David Friedman, and I ever argued about politics/economics as a threesome, but if we did, it would have cast Charlie as the moderate. Moderation and human decency were the qualities most remembered about Charles Horman among his friends and acquaintances at Harvard. Rather few of us foresaw that Friedman's 'neo-liberal' economics, now known as neo-conservatism, would become the intellectual justification of decades of terror-based tyranny in Latin America just as much as for the rise of Reaganomics and the attempt by GW Bush to build a new global free-market Iraq not wanted by Iraqis. This story is well told in the recent book "The Shock Doctrine: the Rise of Disaster Capitalism" by Naomi Klein. If the movie "Missing" made an impression on you, wait till you read the book!
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Summary: Drive a Stake through Pinochet's Heart!
Comment: Charles Horman, the young man whose "disappearance" following the murderous right-wing coup in Chile is the subject of this powerful film, was a classmate and friend of mine at Harvard College. After graduation, I didn't keep in touch with Charlie. In fact, the first I heard of his fate at the hands of the butcher Pinochet was when this movie was released. Needless to say, it was the most traumatic experience I've ever had at the cinema. I'm thrilled to see that a new print is about to be released, and I'll pre-order it immediately.
Ironically, one of the other young men at Harvard in the early 1960s was the son of Milton Friedman, the University of Chicago economist whose economic dogma of absolutist capitalist had almost as much to do with the death of Charles Horman and of the thousands of others who "disappeared" into CIA files and unmarked mass graves in Chile, Argentina, and Brazil. I can't remember for sure whether Charlie, David Friedman, and I ever argued about politics/economics as a threesome, but if we did, it would have cast Charlie as the moderate. Moderation and human decency were the qualities most remembered about Charles Horman among his friends and acquaintances at Harvard. Rather few of us foresaw that Friedman's 'neo-liberal' economics, now known as neo-conservatism, would become the intellectual justification of decades of terror-based tyranny in Latin America just as much as for the rise of Reaganomics and the attempt by GW Bush to build a new global free-market Iraq not wanted by Iraqis. This story is well told in the recent book "The Shock Doctrine: the Rise of Disaster Capitalism" by Naomi Klein. If the movie "Missing" made an impression on you, wait till you read the book!
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