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McCullin (2012) (Blu-Ray) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
BAFTA Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby DTS 5.1 )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( Blu-Ray/Region B )

Running Time:
95 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)
Black & White

Movie filmed in 2012 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
David Morris
Jacqui Morris

Written By:
David Morris
Jacqui Morris

Actors:
Harold Evans ..... Himself - Interview
Don McCullin ..... Himself
Michael Parkinson ..... Himself (archive footage)
Sue Ryder ..... Herself (archive footage)

Synopsis:

Towards the end of 2012, war photographer Don McCullin recently travelled to Syria for one last trip to the frontline. Interviewed on Radio 4 from Aleppo in December 2012, 76 year-old McCullin said, 'I'm not important in all this. I'm just a carrier pigeon bringing this back home.' An amazing, humbling reflection on a career spanning close to 50 years, that saw Don McCullin cover Biafra, Vietnam and Northern Ireland, bringing back home photographic proof of the horrific fallout of war on civilians. As he says early in Jacqui and David Morris' terrific documentary, 'You're trying to stay alive, you're trying to take pictures, you're trying to justify your presence there and you think, 'What good is this going to do anyway, these people have already been killed?'' McCullin, who started out photographing street gangs in his native North London in the 1950s, has a soft, precise way of speaking. He looks like a rougher Terence Stamp. The Morris's film mixes recent interviews with McCullin with contemporaneous news footage and McCullin's own photographs, which have lost none of their power. His experiences are incredible - from the first execution he saw, at dawn in a Saigon market in 1965, through Vietnam, the Lebanon and beyond. 'My family suffered very badly,' he remembers. 'I was always waving goodbye to them and one wonders in their mind were they ever thinking, 'Will we ever see this strange man again who is supposed to be our father?''

Detailing the life and work of acclaimed war photographer Don McCullin, the seminal photo-journalist of the 1970s and 1980s, Jacqui and David Morris' documentary film shows the truth behind McCullin's hard hitting and controversial images.

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 01 October, 2013.

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