Operation Filmmaker Archives - The Playlist https://theplaylist.net/tag/operation-filmmaker/ Fri, 06 Nov 2020 19:01:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.4 https://cdn.theplaylist.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/14214807/cropped-cropped-media-47-1-32x32.png Operation Filmmaker Archives - The Playlist https://theplaylist.net/tag/operation-filmmaker/ 32 32 Operation Filmmaker: Tale Of Ingratitude? Or Parallels To America’s Misadventures Abroad? https://staging2.theplaylist.net/operation-filmmaker-tale-of-ingratitude-20080605/ https://staging2.theplaylist.net/operation-filmmaker-tale-of-ingratitude-20080605/#respond Thu, 05 Jun 2008 17:54:00 +0000 http://theplaylist.wpengine.com/?p=10843 We really can’t stand ungrateful, smug people so we’re havng trouble really getting past the front door of this documentary, “Operation Filmmaker.”

The synopsis:

Do-gooder intentions go disastrously wrong when Hollywood gives a young Iraqi film student the chance of a lifetime. Operation Filmmaker tells the fascinating and riveting story of Muthana Mohmed’s odyssey in the West, with uncanny parallels to America’s recent misadventures abroad.

Basically actor/director Liev Schreiber was about to shoot his soon-to-be rather boring adaptation of Jonathan Safran Foer’s celebrated novel, “Everything Is Illuminated,” and before he did, he saw an MTV “True Life: I’m Living in Iraq” episode about Baghdad film student, Muthana Mohmed.

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