AS PART OF "VIETNAM ACROSS THE DIVIDES" PROGRAM, CURATED BY TONY BUI
The Criterion Channel is adding Brian De Palma's Casualties Of War in April, as part of the program, "Legacies of War: Vietnam Across the Divides." Here are the details:
Legacies of War: Vietnam Across the Divides
On the fiftieth anniversary of the fall of Saigon, filmmaker and program curator Tony Bui presents a multiperspective look at the Vietnam War on film, moving beyond conventional narratives to include voices and viewpoints often overlooked in mainstream cinema. While the most famous Vietnam War films—like the cultural touchstones Platoon and Full Metal Jacket—focus on the experience of American soldiers, this selection paints a broader, more complex picture, exploring Vietnamese perspectives, the war’s impact on civilians, and postwar reckoning. Encompassing powerfully human Vietnamese dramas like The Little Girl of Hanoi and When the Tenth Month Comes, wrenching documentaries like Regret to Inform and Hearts and Minds, and Bui’s own poetic reflection on Vietnam past and present, Three Seasons, these stories of loss, resilience, trauma, and reconciliation offer new ways of understanding a conflict that shattered and shaped countless lives.
FEATURING: On the Same River (1959), Ms. Tư Hậu (1963), Hearts and Minds (1974), The Little Girl of Hanoi (1974), When the Tenth Month Comes (1984), Platoon (1986), Full Metal Jacket (1987), Casualties of War (1989), In Country (1989), Regret to Inform (1998), Three Seasons (1999)*, The Fog of War (2003)*, Journey from the Fall (2006)