SUBJECTS

Indochinese War, 1946-1954, United States -- Foreign relations -- Vietnam, Vietnam -- Foreign relations -- United States, Vietnam -- History -- 1930-1970, Vietnam War, 1961-1975

In the Year of the Pig

Restored 35mm Print

Emile de Antonio’s Academy Award–nominated In the Year of the Pig makes the case against US intervention in Vietnam using an incendiary montage style. The film “connects the bloody dots between politicians and business leaders, Western imperialists, and puppet governments, using a collage of rare archival footage from the French colonial period, film dispatches from the current conflict, and interviews with American policymakers and international experts on Vietnam. Completed in 1969, in the thick of both the undeclared war and the growing anti-war movement, Pig is an explosive analysis of the American war machine” (Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research).

FILM DETAILS 
Cinematographer
  • John F. Newman
  • Jean-Jacques Rochut
Print Info
  • B&W
  • 35mm
  • 101 mins
Additional Info
  • Restored print courtesy of UCLA Film & Television Archive
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The Year of the Pig in Vietnam (review), Guardian (New York, NY), Irwin Silber, 1969

In the year of the pig (review), Variety, Padu., 1969

De Antonio: Vietnam polemic (review), Christian Science Monitor, 1969

Year of the Pig MUST be seen - and that's that (review), Boston Herald Traveler, Alta Maloney, 1969

Les derniers jours de Superman (review), Nouvel observateur, Jean-Louis Bory, 1969

News & views: Managing the image (review), Commonweal, 1969

Emile de Antonio: un cinéaste américan face à la guerre du Vietnam (interview), Humanité, François Maurin, 1969

Reading the news (review), New Statesman, The, John Coleman, 1968

In the year of the pig (review), Harvard Crimson, Jim Frosch

The war game (distributor materials), Contemporary Films/McGraw-Hill

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