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Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y
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  1. msmichel's rating of the film Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y

    msmichel

    A strange collage of mass media footage and images concerning the uprising of hijacking throughout the seventies and eighties that has a strangely satiric and disrespectful tone. Never boring in its slim running time but leaves an aftertaste of bitterness.

    November 26, 2015 00:55

  2. Andrés Mego's rating of the film Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y

    Andrés Mego

    Muy interesante documental basado totalmente en material de archivo, magníficamente editado y musicalizado. La película va más allá del tema central, los secuestros de aviones, también es evocación de la guerra fría, una reflexión sobre el personaje del "terrorista" y un pastiche entre trágico y sarcástico del tratamiento mediático que recibieron estas noticias. Recomendable!

    March 20, 2015 17:07

  3. εξώτερο Διάστημα's rating of the film Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y

    εξώτερο Διάστημα

    there's someting in this treatment of hijacking as a media phenomenon, with a pseudo-hartmut bitomsky approach and maudlin essayism that strikes me as deeply sick(ening). will have to rewatch.

    January 31, 2015 18:56

  4. Samuel Andrade's rating of the film Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y

    Samuel Andrade

    ★★★★ airplane hijackings 101.

    December 09, 2014 00:27

  5. janh24's rating of the film Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y

    janh24

    Should a film concerned with such an incendiary topic really be this jejune?

    October 09, 2014 21:45

  6. Nikola Enchev's rating of the film Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y

    Nikola Enchev

    It is the ADHD version of a good Adam Curtis documentary.

    October 08, 2014 21:56

  7. Steve Thompson's rating of the film Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y

    Steve Thompson

    Johan Gimonprez's collage of late twentieth-century footage of terrorism and disasters may appear superficial and even exploitative in its frenetic magpie approach, but the melding of violent atrocities with the kitsch music and TV of the time offers an understanding of a wider cultural malaise. And as a philosophical film about media, culture and death, it makes for uncomfortable and provocative viewing.

    October 06, 2014 23:47

  8. Superfrog's rating of the film Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y

    Superfrog

    Pretty special.

    October 02, 2014 19:11

  9. raggiodisole's rating of the film Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y

    raggiodisole

    is there any way in which plane travel is not terrifying? a waltz though the view that the media has had of the worst that the world can offer

    September 28, 2014 22:21

  10. svenrufus's rating of the film Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y

    svenrufus

    Tawdry and exploitative. While visually captivating, there is an unpleasant sense that we're being taken on a tour of YouTube clips of death, rather than any proper analysis, or even exposition on the supposed theme of this film. This is brought sharply into focus when we're shown some fatal plane crashes that have no connection to hijacking or terrorism. It lacks credibility. It's little more than 'Faces of Death'.

    September 18, 2014 09:18

  11. The Young Turk's rating of the film Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y

    The Young Turk

    A visually stunning experimental documentary by Johan Grimonprez eerily foreshadows the events that would come three years later. What the documentary lacks in approach-ability it makes up for in it's innovative style and relentless critique of the desensitization of the press since the Vietnam war. I would recommend this film to those who are looking for a film that stands out among almost all in it's genre.

    September 17, 2014 17:34

  12. Stefan Drees's rating of the film Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y

    Stefan Drees

    An extremely disturbing re-reading of 20th century history, created by montage of sound, music and picture from different sources in combination with an artificial commentary.

    September 14, 2014 10:30

  13. CarsonBard's rating of the film Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y

    CarsonBard

    A film that attempts to use tabloid journalism to refute, eh, the entire media? An anal, bitter, and pretentious film that seems, arrogantly, to suggest that acts of terrorism imitate art. OK, I didn't very much care for the message, but I think the film could have been bearable if the film-maker wasn't so irritating and pretentious. A bitter, repetitive, and annoying attack on the media.

    September 12, 2014 16:43

  14. Matt Bowden's rating of the film Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y

    Matt Bowden

    The cult of celebrity and the other trappings of modern capitalism (of which commercial air travel is a very potent symbol) are dealt with by Grimonprez in startling, original ways. We hear the sombre narration of excerpts from Don DeLillo interspersed with pop songs and media interviews. This is all juxtaposed with footage of shocking violence and destruction. Film doesn't get more thought-provoking than this.

    August 28, 2014 05:47

  15. CarlosEsquives's rating of the film Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y

    CarlosEsquives

    Un poco redundante.

    February 25, 2014 05:07

  16. eric gould's rating of the film Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y

    eric gould

    "Shouldn't death be a swan dive; graceful, white-winged and smooth?" A gently cheerful narrator muses as footage of a plane makes its descent towards a runway. So begins Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y - an experimental documentary that reveals how news media assigned celebrity status upon hijackers in the 1960s and 70s and how their revolutionary zeal emerged energized in Warholian fashion. Eerily made just years before 9/11.

    February 19, 2014 20:28

  17. PolarisDiB's rating of the film Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y

    PolarisDiB

    http://www.directorscutradio.com/2013/09/05/capsule-review-dial-h-i-s-t-o-r-y-1998/ --DiB

    September 05, 2013 19:14