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In The Year Of The Pig (1968)

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Documentary filmmaker Emil DeAntonio's In the Year of the Pig was financed by New York society matron Mrs. Orville Schell; her fund-raising dinners earned her an executive producer credit on the completed film. An extremely radicalized view of the still-raging war in Vietnam, Pig was so unabashedly provocative that it earned DeAntonio the tireless scrutiny of FBI head J. Edgar Hoover (whose file on the filmmaker inspired yet another DeAntonio production of 1990, Mr. Hoover and I). Bracketed

Unrated, 1 hr. 43 min.

Documentary, Musical & Performing Arts, Special Interest

Directed By: Emile de Antonio

On DVD: Sep 20, 2005

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Lady Bird Johnson

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For those that are knowledgeable about the Vietnam War, there will be nothing new to be found in the documentary "In the Year of the Pig." When it was made in 1968, it may have felt like a radical breath of fresh air, linking the Cold War and anti-Communist rhetoric to the tragedy of Vietnam. Speaking of which,

April 15, 2009

Walter M.

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Emile De Antonio's antiwar masterpiece, IN THE YEAR OF THE PIG, is a rough, gritty documentary. The film itself looks coarse and grainy, perhaps reused stock. But the images are iconic, and haunting. An American lifeguard at a South Vietnamese beach, looking absurdly out of place, rubs sunscreen on his nose. And the

October 2, 2009