Host: Kurt Anderson
No Surge at the Box Office
Why aren't audiences drawn to movies about the war in Iraq? Kurt surveys the landscape and talks with the latest director to brave the war movie marketplace -- Kimberly Peirce. Peirce's new fiction film about Iraq,"Stop Loss," was inspired by her brother, who came back from a tour in the Army and showed her the raw real-life videos combat soldiers were making. Produced by Eric Molinsky.
Kimberly Peirce
Kurt's conversation with director Kimberly Peirce continues. She sees a connection between "Stop-Loss" and her first feature, "Boys Don’t Cry:" “I think it was interesting seeing how a woman constructed herself as a man and how these young men also struggled to figure out what being a good man was.”
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