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(dir. Joshua Oppenheimer and Christine Cynn, 2012, United Kingdom, 167 minutes)Chosen by Webster Film Series director Pete Timmermann as the single best film of the 2010s in a poll conducted in early 2020, Joshua Oppenheimer and Christine Cynn’s debut full-length feature documentary, The Act of Killing, is a truly stunning and unprecedented work. Made in Indonesia decades after the U.S.-backed 1965-66 slaughter of potentially millions of Indonesians in the name of fighting Communism, Oppenheimer went to find the perpetrators still in charge, likening it to going to Germany 40 years after World War II only to find the Nazis still in power. Oppenheimer’s status as an American film director affords him the opportunity to coax the perpetrators into reenacting their atrocities in the style of the American gangster films they so admire. Executive produced by Werner Herzog and Errol Morris, we are pleased to show the masterwork The Act of Killing is the director’s preferred 167-minute cut, as opposed to the 122-minute cut first released in America.
In Indonesian with English subtitles.
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