Anwar Congo, an active member of the paramilitary organization Pemuda Pancasila in Indonesia, didn’t hesitate to appear in the Oscar-nominated “The Act of Killing.” Widely favored to win Best ...
The most horrifying movie scene you will watch this year begins with a giant waterfall cascading into a lush green gorge. A Muzak cover of "Born Free" plays as smiling young women in matching satin ...
NPR's Bob Mondello reviews a documentary that raised hackles and inspired hosannahs when it played at the Telluride Film Festival. The Act of... In Indonesia, A Genocide Restaged For The Camera ...
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Anwar Congo seems like a gentle, soft-spoken old man, but in the mid-60s he murdered as many as a thousand people when the Indonesian military, capitalizing on a brief coup attempt against President ...
Come join us at The New Parkway in downtown Oakland for the incredible experience that is The Act of Killing. Thanks to the director, Joshua Oppenheimer, we have been given the rights to show the ...
Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. Ready for my closeup Anwar Congo, right, prepares to re-enact one of the hundreds of murders he committed in ...