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| September 11 | 
 enlarge | Director: Samira Makhmalbaf;amos Gitai;mira Nair
Actors: Maryam Karimi, Emmanuelle Laborit, Jerome Horry, Nour El-sherif, Ahmed Haroun
Studio: FIRST RUN FEATURES
Category: DVD
List Price: $26.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  20 reviews
Sales Rank: 18341
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Hifi Sound, Subtitled, Surround Sound, Thx, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Arabic (Original Language), English (Original Language), French (Original Language), Hebrew (Original Language), Persian (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language)
Rating: Unrated
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 135
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.1 x 0.6
MPN: 5234
UPC: 843171005234
EAN: 0843171005234
ASIN: B00062J0NA
Theatrical Release Date: 2002
Release Date: October 26, 2004
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A Mixed but Worthwhile Experience January 31, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
"September 11" is not one film but rather 11 short ones, each directed by a different filmmaker. It attempts to give a variety of perspectives on how people around the globe received the news that the United States had been attacked. Featuring locales as diverse as Israel, Africa, and Japan, as well as the U.S., the film is predictably uneven, given the number of artistic hands at work. Youssef Chanine's Egyptian segment is unfocused and strident, while Shohei Imamura's Japanese piece and Sean Penn's American entry are elusive, at best. Ken Loach's UK piece, on the other hand, works quite well, as a displaced Chilean discusses his country's memories of a different 9/11, and Danis Tanovic's perspective from Bosnia-Herzegovina is also moving. Claude Lelouch's French contribution may be the high point, as it shows a deaf woman who spends all of 9/11 crafting a goodbye note to her lover, who has gone off to his job as a tour guide at the World Trade Center. For obvious reasons, she hears nothing of what has happened until he walks back in the door.
At the very least, the film succeeds in opening the mind to sensory and intellectual responses other than our own to these tragic events. History will have to be the judge of whether "September 11" is great art, just as history will be the judge of how the events of September 11, 2001 changed this country and the world. On both counts, at least a sensible dialogue can be said to have begun.
It drags you in and makes you think! January 6, 2007
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I honestly never read movie reviews to hope to gain understanding of a film. This film really makes you wan't to seek the thoughts of others on it. One reviewer points out that it makes you confused... it leaves you with a need for a better understanding... in this alone the film is a work of art.
DVD treasure March 9, 2006
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
Upon casting my eyes on this dvd at my local Blockbuster Video, I thought I would get it to view "the event" from different perspectives.
What I didn't expect was to be so brought into the storylines that time just stood still.
I immediately went to Amazon.com to order for my home collection.
I immediately and highly recommend this and also remind all who view to first set your English subtitle option on your home player so you can fully experience this dare I say masterful work.
Thank you to all who made this film possible.
Thick skin required. January 7, 2006
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
I don't think that this brave, artistic film is an anti-American diatribe by any means. Each segment lasts 11 minutes, 9 seconds and 1 frame. You could certainly watch the segments from Bosnia-Herzegovina's Danis Tanovic or Burkina Faso's Idrissa Ouedraogo to see a vision of the repercussions of 9-11 done in a manner that expresses bewilderment or sympathy toward the catastrophe's victims. Others, admittedly, take a jaundiced view of the USA's involvement in world affairs, such as British director Ken Loach's segment or Egypt's Youssef Chahine, who perilously examine the tragedy within the grand scope of other historic days that shook the world.
Certainly, pain is pain. No American who grieves a loss of loved one that day (as I did, and do) can feel entirely receptive when someone says to us, "well, you're hardly the first person or country to have suffered..." But I do welcome these intelligent, frequently moving views. Best and worst?: Mexico's brilliant Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's (of AMORES PERROS and 21 GRAMS fame) short film practically uses only sounds in place of visuals - yet it is intensely powerful; Israel's Amos Gitai's is just chaotic and loud, not very involving and rather off-putting. Indian filmmaker Mira Nair's story of a mother in New York trying to exonerate her son after he is accused of being a terrorist (based on true events) is also quietly shattering.
It's difficult to think of anyone viewing Nair's film, with her nationalized Indian family, and not feeling somewhat proud to be American.
 Anatomy of the september 11 th September 2, 2005
0 out of 10 found this review helpful
like to get this movie
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