{"id":67885,"date":"2016-12-11T08:00:26","date_gmt":"2016-12-11T12:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=67885"},"modified":"2016-11-05T22:01:24","modified_gmt":"2016-11-06T02:01:24","slug":"pushing-the-envelope-the-act-of-killing-directors-cut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=67885","title":{"rendered":"Pushing the Envelope:  The Act of Killing (Director&#8217;s Cut)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday, December 11 \u00a0 03pm<br \/>\nMuseum of the Moving Image<br \/>\n36-01 35 Ave, Astoria, NY 11106<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/act_of_killing.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[67885]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-67865\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/act_of_killing.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"385\" height=\"167\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dir. Joshua Oppenheimer. 2012, 159 mins. Digital projection. In this formally inventive, deeply unsettling Academy Award-nominated film, director Joshua Oppenheimer exposes a contemporary Indonesian society formed from a brutal, harrowing, and still unexamined civil war. In a country where death squad leaders are still celebrated as heroes, flaunting and benefiting from their murderousness with impunity, Oppenheimer (along with collaborators who remained anonymous because of safety concerns) challenged these men to reenact their real-life atrocities via staged musical, action, comedy, and noir scenes. Their reckoning, or lack thereof, plays like a provocative fever-dream\u2014albeit one punctured by the realization that many citizens remain terrorized by these aging wannabe thespians. \u201cA bombshell, both for opening the world\u2019s eyes to Indonesia\u2019s recent bloody history and vis a vis the tradition of objective nonfiction filmmaking.\u201d\u2014Peter Debruge, Variety. Winner of three Cinema Eye Honors awards, including Best Nonfiction Feature.<\/p>\n<p>For tickets visit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.movingimage.us\/visit\/calendar\/2016\/12\/11\/detail\/the-act-of-killing-directors-cut\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.movingimage.us<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday, December 11 \u00a0 03pm Museum of the Moving Image 36-01 35 Ave, Astoria, NY 11106<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stay-connected-to-the-latest-local-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67885"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67886,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67885\/revisions\/67886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}