RottenTomatoes.com
Log In | Register | What is RT?
Check out the new RT Community
  • Home
  • Movies
  • DVD
  • Celebrities
  • News
  • Critics
  • Trailers & Pictures
  • CommunityBeta
  • Box Office
  • | In Theaters
  • | Opening
  • | Upcoming
  • | Best Of
  • | Certified Fresh
  • | Showtimes
RT Search Powered by Google
help icon Enhanced RT
searches on Google
Click here to turn on enhanced search results from RT on your Google searches.
 
Movies / On DVD / September 11
September 11

Rate this Movie Help Icon

  • Write a Review
  • Read Reviews
  • Add to List
  • Get this Movie
  • Buy Poster External Icon
  • Visit Official Site External Icon
  • Bookmark and Share

September 11 (2003)

  • T-Meter Critics
  • Top Critics
  • RT Community
  • My Critics
  • My Friends
  • DVD
77 %
Tomatometer

How does the Tomatometer work Help Icon

Reviews Counted: 57

Fresh: 44

Rotten:13

Average Rating: 6.6/10

Rated: Not Rated

Runtime: 2 hrs 15 mins

Genre: Foreign Films

Theatrical Release:Jul 18, 2003 Limited

Synopsis: A reaction piece to the United States' terrorist attack on September 11, 2001, this controversial film calls upon eleven directors from various countries to contribute 11-minute 9-second films... A reaction piece to the United States' terrorist attack on September 11, 2001, this controversial film calls upon eleven directors from various countries to contribute 11-minute 9-second films about the event. Variously political, violent, disturbing, abstract, opinionated, angered, or forgiving, each film is drastically different from the next. Starting the set is Iranian director Samira Makhmalbaf's touching short which focuses on school children being taught about the incident. With very short attention spans and too little understanding about where the United States is located geographically or what skyscrapers look like, the clearest message the children receive is that they will need to build bomb shelters for fear the U.S. will attack them in retaliation. Another short, directed by Mexican filmmaker Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu (AMORES PERROS), is composed nearly entirely of sounds--prayers and chants and street noise recorded by news outlets that morning--while the screen remains black. Very brief glimpses of victims falling from the towers' soaring windows are the only break to the blackness while the layering of sound mounts to a chaotic fever pitch. In a film by American director Sean Penn, a very old man living in a New York apartment finds his bedroom filled with sunlight as the towers come down. A lighter take on the tragedy, from African director Idrissa Ouedraogo, shows how a group of boys in a small town learn of the $25 million reward for Osama Bin Laden's capture and set their hearts on finding him in order to buy medicine for one boy's ailing mother. Perhaps the most emotional and compassionate contributions come from Bosnia's Danis Tanovic and England's Ken Loach, who both offer vows of solidarity from the widows of Srebrenica and the victims of Chile's brutal dictatorship, respectively. Rounding out the omnibus is a bizarrely appropriate anti-war film by Japanese director Shohei Imamura (THE EEL), in which a traumatized WWII veteran reacts to the atrocities he's seen by rejecting humanity and behaving like a snake. [More]

Director: Danis Tanovic, Ken Loach, Shohei Imamura, Mira Nair, Samira Makhmalbaf, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Idrissa Ouedraogo, Sean Penn, Amos Gitai, Youssef Chahine, Claude Lelouch

Director: Danis Tanovic, Ken Loach, Shohei Imamura, Mira Nair, Samira Makhmalbaf, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Idrissa Ouedraogo, Sean Penn, Amos Gitai, Youssef Chahine, Claude Lelouch
Studio: Empire Pictures

Get This Movie

Rent DVD
 
 

Click on the "ADD" button to put this movie into your Netflix queue.

 
 
Buy DVD
 
 
Release:

Oct 26, 2004

No Details Exist
 
 

Reviews for September 11

  • T-Meter Critics
  • Top Critics
  • RT Community
  • My Critics
  • My Friends
  • DVD
 
 
1 - 20 (sorted by date)
Text View | 1 2 3 >> >|
Arrange By: Fresh | Rotten | Comments | Name | Source | Date
 
 
N/R

Click to read the article

Full Review Source: Variety | comment Comment
07/22/08
Deborah Young
Variety
Top Critic Icon Top Critic

The most forceful contribution is by Ken Loach.

Full Review Source: Observer [UK] | comment Comment
01/15/08
Philip French
Observer [UK]

Seeing September 11 now, five years after its completion, is a reminder not only of the visceral terror from that day, but also of the sense of shared global humanity that flourished briefly in its wake.

Full Review Source: Oregonian | comment Comment
06/29/07
Marc Mohan
Oregonian

Ken Loach’s entry aside, this is a self-indulgent bid to wring arthouse kudos from tragedy.

Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | comment Comment
12/30/06
Empire Magazine

Eminently worth seeing, arguing with, and thinking about.

Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | comment Comment
05/27/06
Rob Gonsalves
eFilmCritic.com

No review available.

comment Comment
10/08/05
Emanuel Levy
EmanuelLevy.Com

the best segments are from the most obscure directors... the big guns mostly strike out

Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com | comment Comment
10/08/04
Christopher Null
Filmcritic.com

An ungainly, intermittently harrowing omnibus filled with moments of piercing sorrow and rage.

Full Review Source: New York Magazine | comment Comment
08/07/04
Peter Rainer
New York Magazine
Top Critic Icon Top Critic

Some were reported to have expressed very un-American sentiments, but that wasn't the case at all.

Full Review Source: Planet Sick-Boy | comment Comment
03/16/04
Jon Popick
Planet Sick-Boy

'A pesar de lo fallido de algunos trabajos, es un sólido trabajo que muestra las diferentes reacciones de grupos étnicos e intelectuales a una grave tragedia'

Full Review Source: Moviola | comment Comment
01/09/04
Jorge Avila Andrade
Moviola

You'll get a provocative picture of how a variety of filmmakers reacted to the events of Sept. 11.

Full Review Source: Denver Rocky Mountain News | comment Comment
11/28/03
Robert Denerstein
Denver Rocky Mountain News
Top Critic Icon Top Critic

An uneven but telling document.

Full Review Source: Denver Post | comment Comment
11/28/03
Lisa Kennedy
Denver Post
Top Critic Icon Top Critic

The results are not monumental, but they are a variety of sober responses to the tragedy that help place the event in a global context.

Full Review Source: Globe and Mail | comment Comment
11/14/03
Liam Lacey
Globe and Mail
Top Critic Icon Top Critic

The short films range in quality and style from wonderful absurdist metaphor ... to breathtakingly dumb metaphor ... to hilarious satire to theatre of the obscure.

Full Review Source: Jam! Movies | comment Comment
11/14/03
Jim Slotek
Jam! Movies

Everyone can find something they like on the buffet.

Full Review Source: Cinerina | comment Comment
11/11/03
Karina Montgomery
Cinerina

The best witness of 9/11 is 9/11, and Inarritu, as if honorably terrorized by the facts, turns to an Arabic quotation: 'Does God's light guide us or blind us?'

Full Review Source: San Diego Union-Tribune | comment Comment
11/04/03
David Elliott
San Diego Union-Tribune
N/R

Click to read the article

Full Review Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch | comment Comment
10/24/03
St. Louis Post-Dispatch

You have to take the duds with the skyrockets, but overall, this odd compendium is an emotionally moving experience.

Full Review Source: Arizona Republic | comment Comment
10/23/03
Richard Nilsen
Arizona Republic
Top Critic Icon Top Critic

It was wise to wait two years to release this collection of 11 shorts, each 11 minutes, nine seconds and one frame in length; even now, it’s hard to imagine the viewer whose gut will remain unwrenched.

Full Review Source: New Times | comment Comment
10/23/03
Luke Y. Thompson
New Times

As a whole, September 11 never reaches any conclusions or ready insights. But as a collection of moments, the film often soars.

Full Review Source: Austin Chronicle | comment Comment
10/22/03
Marjorie Baumgarten
Austin Chronicle
 
 
1 - 20 (sorted by date)
Text View | 1 2 3 >> >|
See More Topics...

Related Forums for September 11

Click here to be the first to post a message on this forum.

See All

More DVDs

Close
Top Rentals
Tomatometer Percentage Movie
79%
79%
Gran Torino
30%
30%
12 Rounds
23%
23%
Confessions of a Shopa…
—
The Code
39%
39%
Inkheart

More Rentals…

New On DVD This Week
Tomatometer Percentage Movie
22%
22%
Push
12%
12%
The Unborn

More New Releases…

RT On Current TV

What’s Hot On RT

5 Favorite Films

5 Favorite Films

Director Kathryn Bigelow on Hurt Locker, more

Revisiting Hogwarts

Revisiting Hogwarts

Day 2: The Chamber of Secrets

Humpday Clip

Humpday Clip

An exclusive peek at the indie comedy!

RT on Current TV!

RT on Current TV!

Check out the RT Show this Thursday!

Other News

Close
  • Top Stories
  • Popular
  • Interviews
 
 

Comments

 
 
Top Stories
Headlines Comments
  
  • Weekly Ketchup: T.J. Hooker Film in Development
8
  • Warners Shortens Green Lantern Wishlist Source: Hollywood Reporter
86
  • Harold Ramis Talks Ghostbusters 3 Source: MakingOf.com
26
  • Spider-Man 4 Gets Its Third Writer Source: Latino Review
60
  • Warners Wins Favorable Ruling in Superman Case Source: Variety
18
  • Remo Williams Rides Again Source: Risky Biz
10
  • Mortal Kombat 3 Filming in September? Source: Slashfilm
82
  • MacGruber Gets a Director Source: Variety
39
  • PG-13 Turns 25 Source: VideoETA
8
  • Weekly Ketchup: Universal Takes on Asteroids
92
Popular
Headlines Comments
  
  • Deconstructing Harry, Day 1: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
67
  • Box Office Guru Wrapup: Transformers and Ice Age Tie for Top Spot
59
  • Deconstructing Harry, Day 2: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
47
  • Weekly Ketchup: Universal Takes on Asteroids
46
  • Total Recall: Mock Docs That Rock
41
  • Five Favorite Films with Kathryn Bigelow
39
  • Critics Consensus: Bruno is Certified Fresh
38
  • RT on DVD: Knowing, Push, The Unborn Unleashed
26
  • Five Favourite Films with Jaime Winstone
19
  • Watch RT on Current TV
6
Interviews
Headlines Comments
  
  • RT Interview: Director Carlos Cuaron on Rudo and Cursi
0
  • RT Interview: Tony Scott on The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3
10
  • Cannes 2009: RT Interview - Sally Hawkins on We Want Sex
2
  • RT Interview: Tilda Swinton on Julia
5
  • Hollywood Legend Debbie Reynolds Reflects On her Life in Showbiz
10
  • Exclusive: McG Talks Terminator Salvation
24
  • Georgia Groome - Fresh Talent on RT
5
  • RT Interview: Reading The Reader with Stephen Daldry
11
  • RT Interview: Oscar Nominee Melissa Leo
7
  • Carey Mulligan - Fresh Talent on RT
7
 
 

Sponsored Links

Around The Network

  • September 11 at Rotten Tomatoes
  • September 11 at AskMen

Fresh Links

Featured
Point-Counterpoint: Bruno
Point-Counterpoint: Bruno External Link

MSN's David Fear and Frank Paiva go head to head discussing the pros and cons of Bruno star Sacha Baron Cohen.

The New Cult Canon
The New Cult Canon External Link

The AV Club's Scott Tobias takes a second look at David Lynch's cult classic, Lost Highway.

Tom Cruise's 10 Best Roles
Tom Cruise's 10 Best Roles External Link

TIME takes us on a 25-year long journey into the superstar's career, giving us a look at his 10 best roles.

A Baywatch Comedy?
A Baywatch Comedy? External Link

BuzzSugar reports on Paramount's plans to rebirth the iconic TV show as a comedy film.

 
 
About| Site Map| Help| RT To Go| Contact Us| Critics Submission| Linking to RT| Licensing| Movie List| Games| Celebs List| Newsletter
IGN Logo

IGN.com | GameSpy | Comrade | Arena | FilePlanet | GameSpy Technology
TeamXbox | Planets | Vaults | VE3D | CheatsCodesGuides | GameStats | GamerMetrics
AskMen.com | Rotten Tomatoes | Direct2Drive | Green Pixels


By continuing past this page, and by the continued use of this site, you agree to be bound by and abide by the User Agreement.
Copyright 1998-2009, IGN Entertainment, Inc. About IGN | Support | Advertise | Privacy Policy | User Agreement | Subscribe to RT's XML feed! IGN RSS Feeds
IGN's enterprise databases running Oracle, SQL and MySQL are professionally monitored and managed by Pythian Remote DBA
Certain product data ©1995-present Muze, Inc. For personal use only. All rights reserved.