US EditionThe Fog of War
- Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza created the new A24 film, *Warfare*, which opens in theaters Friday.
- The filmmakers based *Warfare* on Mendoza's real experiences as a Navy SEAL in Ramadi, Iraq, in 2006.
- Mendoza's memories, accounts from his SEAL Team 5 platoon mates, and old photos helped reconstruct the events.
- Garland questioned, "What if we were to take 90 minutes of real combat and try to re-create it simply and accurately?"
- *Warfare* aims for neutrality, depicting a brutal surveillance mission gone wrong with SEALs supporting Marines, offering no easy heroism.
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Every Alex Garland Film Ranked, from ’28 Days Later’ to ‘Warfare’
[editor’s note: this list was originally published in April 2024. It has since been updated to include new movies from Garland.] Alex Garland is a director who you either love or hate. But regardless of how you feel about him, it’s likely you can’t stop arguing about him. And the English filmmaker has certainly given audiences something to argue about again with his last two films, “Civil War” and “Warfare.” Set in an unspecified future/alternat…
The Fog of War
I was invited to moderate a Q&A with filmmakers Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza following a screening of Warfare a few weeks ago. Mendoza, who co-wrote and co-directed the film with Garland, is a former Navy SEAL and decorated veteran of the U.S. war in Iraq who connected with Garland when the latter needed a military adviser for last year’s Civil War. Despite my deep ambivalence about that film, I am a major fan of Garland’s work as a screenwrite…
Under Fire by Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza is a brilliant film about the war in Iraq that is physically difficult to watch. And not everyone will like it
On April 10, the film “Under Fire” (Warfare) by British director Alex Garland and his co-author, US Army veteran Ray Mendoza, was released in Russia. The events take place in 2006 in Iraq. A squad of elite fighters is besieged on enemy territory — and this leads to a brutal carnage. At Medusa's request, film critic Elena Smolina explains how the authors manage to show in this impeccably directed film the crystallized essence of any war.
Kit Connor and the cast of Warfare on brotherhood and masculinity
"The fact there are these moments of tenderness, and moments of love between these guys is really beautiful" says Kit of the men depicted in the film The post Kit Connor and the cast of Warfare on brotherhood and masculinity appeared first on Attitude.
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