![]() ![]() The first concerns France’s futile attempt to keep its Indochinese colonies. ![]() “In the Year of the Pig” - a movie in which politicians, generals, journalists and academics posture and declaim against a backdrop of battle scenes and patriotic pageants - was described by de Antonio as “political theater.”Īlthough not strictly chronological, the show has three acts. Commonplace now, the notion of a documentary without a voice-over, predicated on the juxtaposition of archival footage and contrapuntal interviews was novel in 1969 and proved highly influential.ĭe Antonio’s first feature, “Point of Order” (1964), a chronological assemblage of TV footage of the 1954 Army-McCarthy hearings made with Dan Talbot, was the first documentary feature to treat American politics as a media spectacle. “In the Year of the Pig” (which can be found on YouTube) is also a landmark in film history. The movie, screening this weekend in a newly restored 35-millimeter print as part of Metrograph’s current de Antonio retrospective, is not a history of the Vietnam War so much as an immersion in the ideas that were held while the war was going on. To watch “In the Year of the Pig,” the 1969 Vietnam War documentary by Emile de Antonio (1919-89) is to be dropped into the middle of a long-germinating and still-developing disaster. ![]()
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