Intent to Destroy

Name: Intent to Destroy
Genre: Documentary
Released: November 10, 2017
Duration: 115 min
Rating: 75
Cast: Christian Bale, Eric Bogosian, Hagop Asadourian, Ian Bedford, Michael Bobelian

2017

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Intent To Destroy: Death, Denial & Depiction

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Abramorama | Release Date: November 10, 2017 | Not Rated

Starring: Christian Bale, Eric Bogosian, Hagop Asadourian, Ian Bedford, Michael Bobelian, Paul Boghossian, Peter Balakian, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Taner Akçam, Vicken Cheterian

Summary: Pulling back the curtain on mass murder censorship in Hollywood due to U.S. government pressure to appease a strategic ally, Intent to Destroy embeds with a historic feature film production as a springboard to explore the violent history of the Armenian Genocide and legacy of Turkish suppression and denial over the past century. JoePulling back the curtain on mass murder censorship in Hollywood due to U.S. government pressure to appease a strategic ally, Intent to Destroy embeds with a historic feature film production as a springboard to explore the violent history of the Armenian Genocide and legacy of Turkish suppression and denial over the past century. Joe Berlinger’s thirteenth feature documentary film captures the cinematic and political challenges of producing a historically meaningful, big-budget feature film in an environment rife with political suppression and threats of retaliation. Berlinger juxtaposes evocative and beautifully shot scenes from the feature film The Promise with actual archival images from the period, along with present day interviews from a variety of experts, allowing the documentary to depict the reality of the atrocities carried out against the Armenians by the Ottoman Turks in a haunting and cinematic manner.… Expand

Director: Joe Berlinger

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 115 min

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Gary Goldstein

Nov 9, 2017

It’s a masterful effort. Read full review

Ken Jaworowski

Nov 9, 2017

While there may be no completely dispassionate way to discuss its topic — the Armenian genocide — the film’s balance of emotion and composure helps make its stories even stronger. Read full review

Walter Addiego

Jan 10, 2018

Although the director’s multipronged approach may dilute the impact of Intent to Destroy, there’s no denying the film’s value as an introduction to a major piece of history that continues to inspire debate of the most intense kind. Read full review

Alan Scherstuhl

Nov 9, 2017

Intent to Destroy sometimes plays like a DVD extra that might have accompanied The Promise, but it does have value of its own in its interviews with historians, philosophers, and filmmakers and its vintage photos and footage. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Matt Fagerholm

Nov 10, 2017

A well-intentioned documentary that makes the puzzling miscalculation of upstaging the Armenian Genocide with “The Promise.” Read full review

Frank Scheck

Nov 9, 2017

All of this material proves fascinating. It's a shame, then, that so much of Intent to Destroy plays like a special feature for the DVD edition of The Promise. Read full review

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