September Tapes

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Studio: First Look Pictures
Product Type: DVD

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An incredible achievement, SEPTEMBER TAPES chronicles one man's attempt to find notorious terrorist leader Osama bin Laden. Don Larsen is the man responsible for the filming; an intrepid documentarian, he was joined by a bounty hunter in his exhaustive search of the dangerous Afghan landscape. After a battle raged in the Southern hills, eight tapes were discovered containing Larsen's efforts. Detained by the U.S. government for a lengthy period, it was believed the tapes would never be seen by the public. Until now. The sensational footage sees Larsen confronted by the Taliban, make some thrilling headway into finding the terrorist leader, and attempts to provide salient comment on events the filmmaker experiences. The first film to be made in Afghanistan since the collapse of the Taliban, SEPTEMBER TAPES is guerilla filmmaking at its gutsy best.

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please!!!

Breathtaking and Simply Amazing

Art imitates art?

Brave Crew!

Can You Say Cheese in Arabic?

September Tapes
Starring: George Calil , Wali Razaqi , Wali Zarif , and Sunil Sadarangani
Director: Christian Johnston
Manufacturer: First Look Pictures
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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Release Date: 2005-01-25

Description

An incredible achievement, SEPTEMBER TAPES chronicles one man's attempt to find notorious terrorist leader Osama bin Laden. Don Larsen is the man responsible for the filming; an intrepid documentarian, he was joined by a bounty hunter in his exhaustive search of the dangerous Afghan landscape. After a battle raged in the Southern hills, eight tapes were discovered containing Larsen's efforts. Detained by the U.S. government for a lengthy period, it was believed the tapes would never be seen by the public. Until now. The sensational footage sees Larsen confronted by the Taliban, make some thrilling headway into finding the terrorist leader, and attempts to provide salient comment on events the filmmaker experiences. The first film to be made in Afghanistan since the collapse of the Taliban, SEPTEMBER TAPES is guerilla filmmaking at its gutsy best.

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please!!!.......2006-10-06

I'm not sure if I found September tapes outrageously offensive, or just plain stupid--take your pick. Opportunistic, psuedo war porn of the most insidious type--that which exploits true tragedy, and does so with the sensitivity, integrity and complexity of a pickle. Schwarzenegger could have done 10 times better--at least he wouldn't have tried to mix tragic, complex, political realities with horrible action film bravado, truly uni-dimensional characters, absurd acting and pathetically trite plot "revelations." The "documentary" falls apart after the first 15 minutes, and the only element of value left for the viewer is in trying to figure out what was real footage and what was manipulated and/or constructed as an exercise. Unfortunately, any value that might have been found in the documentary footage has been completely eclipsed by the overall absurdity of the project and its opportunistic, shallow, self-important motives. Oh yeah . . . the dialogue (especially the voice overs) . . . . it's like watching a middle class, suburban, white-boy tossing out phrases "Whaz-up brother" and "damn dawg, you my nizzle" and trying to pass it off as serious--not only serious, but dramatic, intense and engaging . . . . PLEASE!

Breathtaking and Simply Amazing.......2006-07-11

Many of the people who wrote a review for this movie have never been in combat...have never lost someone to combat...have never been shot at. As a young veteran who has done all of the previous things mentioned; this movie had my heart pumping. He did not turn into Rambo at the end. (granted this is a movie). Any soldier, whether they were a soldier for 2, 4, 9 years would be able to shoot a gun. Granted at times he sprayed and prayed. I dont want to spoil it, but at the end when he really gets kicking, I could see that. I know that if I went through the [...] he did, I'd be like that. It wouldnt be that hard. I guess you would have had to be in a situation similar. I thought the movie was real until the end. As a veteran, I'm not afraid to admit I cried at the end when I got to hear what he was playing on his IPOD. The ONLY thing I truly questioned was how he went so long with what seemed like minimal food and water. It's hot over there :P Again, that movie was spectacular. Go ahead "couch veterans" talk it up about how fake and stuff it is. Your opinions carry no weight in matters of war.

Art imitates art?.......2006-06-08

No, most big budget film productions like "Syriana" is little more than art imitating art, just being a movie that imitates the fictional (or should I say "speculative," so as not to too deeply offend any liberal readers?) feel of other big budget films. This friggin' movie is actual art! Why? Because it is actually art imitating life! God knows what kind of brutality continues in Afghanistan to this day, and pardon my "jingoism" (or should I say, "factual statement?") but communist Russia failed to bring the Afghanis to capitulation; Great Britain failed to do the same thing...twice! But America? The Afghanis have had their first free elections in its entire thousands year long history because of those damn Yankees! But I digress too offensively. I should be talking about a movie, here. And, I will say it was an excellent film. Maybe I was one of those turds that let himself get drawn into the "Blair Witch Project" movie (the sequel sucked), and going to the theater, I knew "Blair Witch" was fake. It didn't stop me from letting myself get immersed into it. When I started watching "September Tapes," I had no idea that it was nothing more than a "sensationalized" documentary. I really did think it was real. Imagine how enraptured I was! Imagine my wondering about how a revelation of recovered tapes be so fantastically sensational not be placed more into the public spotlight, or get more MSM coverage? In the end, I had to ask, is this real? And THEN I saw the disclaimer, "All characters and events are fictionalized, etc." in the end credits, and I slapped myself in the head, laughing as the puzzle pieces came together. No amount of excellent footage could be that decently compiled. I mean, I've been to Afghanistan. I'm a veteran. I should've asked myself why the folks in the southern regions were speaking Farsi and not Pashtu (which is actually what the majority in southern Afghanistan speak). No, I did not ask myself how the dude could suddenly become Rambo towards the end, because he stated earlier that he's been in the army, and believe it or not, the army can produce some pretty good shooters (ironically, many of the army jokers with the best marksmanship are usually the guys who haven't spent their whole childhood lives carrying a rifle, hunting...at least the ones in basic).
See, when I go home on leave, I'm going to show my sisters this film, but I'm not going to tell them it's fake. I think they will enjoy it as much as I did. And I hope there will be many others who enjoy it as well!

Brave Crew!.......2006-02-02

The charismatic actor George Calil and Wali Razaqi give fine performances in this docu-drama. Fiction at times, yes, but very entertaining. The entire crew was very brave in getting this shot. Festival audiences loved it for a reason! It's good.

Can You Say Cheese in Arabic?.......2006-01-20

I found it amusing how this "documentary" filming seem to catch every tense moment and fighting episode so perfectly - being just in the right place just at the right time....which makes this movie's unwilling confession scream out "VELVEETA!!" - about as fakey-cheesey as it comes. The first 30 minutes of the film I thought was well done, but then the story line & filming deteriorated into a bad con-man's ploy that left me humuourously thinking "are you serious?". It made me think Rambo got lost in the Blair Witch Project.

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Memoires de Septembre / September tapes
Director: Christian Johnston
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD
ASIN: B000N3084W

Product Description

One year after 9/11, an American journalist travels to Afghanistan in an effort to learn the truth about the search for Osama bin Laden.

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