NICE BOMBS Premiering on the Sundance Channel March 19, 2008
Artvamp is proud to announce the broadcast premiere of “NICE BOMBS.”
THE SUNDANCE CHANNEL
MARCH 19
6:30 EST/PST
Check your local listing for channel number.
NICE BOMBS follows director Usama Alshaibi on a journey back to his home town of Baghdad, Iraq.
“thoroughly engaging . . .offers a uniquely time-layered vision of the war.“-Ronnie Scheib, Variety
“Loaded with candid conversations and opinions about the hot-button issues of war, terrorism, and Islamic extremism,’Nice Bombs’ offers many different Iraqi and American points of view and portrays a time and place of nightmarish complexity.“- Bruce Bennett, NEW YORK SUN
“Chicago filmmaker Usama Alshaibi grew up in Iraq and the U.S., and although he recently became an American citizen, his personal video documentary has plenty to say about the day-to-day existence of his Baghdad relatives, whom he visited in 2004. Distance tends to simplify our view of anything, and this video humanizes the situation on the ground mostly by complicating it: in a voice-over Alshaibi says he’s often asked what “”the Iraqis” think, but by the end this question has become as meaningless as asking what “the Americans” think. Much of his previous work has been experimental, but this becomes formally adventurous only near the end, as he converses by phone with a cousin who tells him how much worse the situation has grown this year.” 92 min.-Jonathan Rosenbaum, Critics Choice, Chicago Reader.
“In early 2004 Chicago filmmaker Usama Alshaibi returned to his native Iraq with his wife, producer Kristie Alshaibi, and his camera. He had been away for nearly a quarter-century. The result is a surprisingly warm first-person video diary, blending a series of reunions with Alshaibi’s vast array of relatives and footage of the bazaars, streets, homes and everyday perils of life in post-Saddam, mid-occupation and mid-chaos Iraq.“-Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune
nice bombs opens this week
Just a reminder that the Artvamp and Benzfilm Group documentary Nice Bombs opens in Chicago and New York this week! See below for theaters and showtimes.
NEW YORK
The Pioneer Theatre
155 East 3rd Street- NY, NY
Tel: (212) 591-0434
SHOWTIMES
Weds., July 11 @ 7pm & 9pm
Thurs., July 12 @ 9pm
Fri., July 13 @ 7pm & 9pm
Sat., July 14 @ 7pm & 9pm
Sun., July 15 @ 5pm & 9pm
Mon., July 16 @ 9pm
Tues., July 17 @ 9pm
Weds., July 18 @ 7pm
Thurs., July 19 @ 7pm
Fri., July 20 @ 7pm
Sat., July 21 @ 7pm
Sun., July 22 @ 7pm
BUY TICKETS HERE
CHICAGO
The Gene Siskel Film Center
164 North State Street Chicago, Illinois 60601
Tel: 312-846-2600
*Director Usama Alshaibi will be in attendance for Q & A
SHOWTIMES:
Wednesday, July 11 @ 8:30pm
Monday, July 16 @ 8:15pm
BUY TICKETS HERE
For more info visit nicebombs.com
