This review was originally published as part of our Sundance Film Festival 2014 coverage. It is being re-posted to coincide with the film’s limited release. Camp X-Ray Director: Peter Sattler Rating: N/A Release Date: January 17, 2014 (Sundance) Guantanamo Bay still serves as a dark footnote in American history more than a decade after its […]
[Trailer 2] Camp X-Ray
[youtube id=”7JhIOwwmoao”] I’m more than a little excited for Camp X-Ray‘s release in a couple of weeks. As I mentioned in my review of the film at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, the Guantanamo Bay-set drama features great performances from its leads Kristen Stewart and Peyman Moaadi that cinephiles will love. Stewart detractors would even give […]
[Trailer] Camp X-Ray
[youtube id=”_1MDrwqjeGo”] I’m a huge Kristen Stewart fan, Twilight films notwithstanding. My faith in her acting ability was somewhat justified this past winter with her Sundance film, Camp X-Ray, which ended up being one of my favorite films of the entire festival. In the film, Stewart plays a guard assigned to Guantanamo Boy where she must watch over […]
New Images of Kristen Stewart in Guantanamo Bay Drama, Camp X-Ray
One of the very first films I screened at this year’s Sundance Film Festival was Camp X-Ray, an independent drama written and directed by Peter Sattler that starred Krisen Stewart as a rookie guard at Guantanamo Bay befriending and sympathizing with a detainee at the camp. Stewart’s gotten a lot of flak over the years […]