In the Year of the Pig
1969
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Emile Francisco de Antonio (May 14, 1919: 3 – December 15, 1989) was an American director and producer of documentary films, usually detailing political, social, and counterculture events circa 1960s–1980s. He has been referred to by Randolph Lewis as, "…the most important political filmmaker in the United States during the Cold War."
Emile de Antonio. Director: In the King of Prussia. The son of a wealthy physician, Emile de Antonio grew up in the tough coal-mining town of Scranton, Pennsylvania, and it made a deep impression on him.
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Feb 25, 2019 · In February 1969 in Boston, Emile de Antonio’s In the Year of the Pig —a cutting documentary condemnation of U.S. policy in Vietnam— received its official theatrical premiere. By then, de Antonio had cemented a reputation as a rabble-rouser of the mid-century American establishment.
Emile de Antonio (1919-1989) was a radical American documentary filmmaker during the Cold War years, a remarkably fertile period of both independent filmmaking and political dissent.
May 2, 2018 · To watch “In the Year of the Pig,” the 1969 Vietnam War documentary by Emile de Antonio (1919-89) is to be dropped into the middle of a long-germinating and still-developing disaster.
Emile de Antonio (1919-1989) was a preeminent force in independent film and political documentary. The ten documentaries he made between 1963 and 1989 dissect the power structures governing Cold War America, critiquing the power elite and lionizing dissenters. ...
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De Antonio’s films were on the leading edge, both politically and aesthetically. From his very first film, Point of Order of 1964, de Antonio showed his propensity for questioning government authority and investigating powerful officials’ misdeeds.
