Tag: Desert One
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‘Desert One’ Review: Barbara Kopple Offers a Dry Look Back at the Iran Hostage Crisis
Observational documentarian Barbara Kopple has a long history of making herself seem invisible, but the vérité intimacy and anti-establishment zeal of Oscar-winning classics like “Harlan County, USA,” and “American Dream” suggest that her signature work couldn’t have been made by anyone else; Kopple isn’t absent from these films so much as she’s sublimated into the…