This important, anxious-making portrait of American soldiers in Afghanistan in 2007 and 2008 does nothing to address the larger political picture of the ongoing war—it simply takes you into combat with some extraordinarily brave guys. The interviews are wrenching, and the footage of the soldiers under fire, sweating, sleeping, being bored, arguing with Afghan elders over a dead cow, burning their own feces, and dying is so intimate, you wonder how the hell the documentary cameramen (Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington) didn’t die capturing it. (Harvard Exit, 807 E Roy St, thestranger.com/siff. 6:30 pm, $11.)
Christopher Frizzelle was The Stranger's print editor, and first joined the staff in 2003. He was the editor-in-chief from 2007 to 2016, and edited the story by Eli Sanders that won a 2012 Pulitzer... More by Christopher Frizzelle
I’m reading the book that Junger wrote about his time there, called WAR, (the movie comes from his video footage) it is absolutely amazing.