Salon.com > bin laden http://www.salon.com Sat, 18 May 2013 18:00:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Top 5 investigative videos of the week: Killing bin Laden http://www.salon.com/2013/05/05/top_5_investigative_videos_of_the_week_killing_bin_laden_partner/ http://www.salon.com/2013/05/05/top_5_investigative_videos_of_the_week_killing_bin_laden_partner/#comments Sun, 05 May 2013 17:00:00 +0000 http://www.railrode.net/?p=13289238 The I Files Where can you find Navy SEALs, horse racing, forgotten musicians and the shadowy trade in human body parts all in one place? Only on The I Files, in our list of this week’s top investigative videos.

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“The Man Who Killed Osama bin Laden,” Center for Investigative Reporting

After watching this video, a bottle of urine and a bacon breakfast sandwich will always be inextricably linked with the death of Osama bin Laden.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2013/05/05/top_5_investigative_videos_of_the_week_killing_bin_laden_partner/feed/ 2 Kathryn Bigelow is modifying her tune http://www.salon.com/2013/01/24/kathryn_bigelow_is_modifying_her_tune/ http://www.salon.com/2013/01/24/kathryn_bigelow_is_modifying_her_tune/#comments Thu, 24 Jan 2013 19:21:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13180607 Kathryn Bigelow can't stop breaking her silence.

The director of "Zero Dark Thirty" has had a not-entirely-jocular interview on "The Colbert Report," written an Op-Ed for the Los Angeles Times, and now appears on the cover of Time. (The venerable magazine notes that this is only the 12th appearance by a director on the cover, as Bigelow joins the likes of Steven Spielberg, Woody Allen, and David Lean.)

It represents a gradual shift away from the presentation of "Zero Dark Thirty" as a sort of documentary or "reported film" and toward portraying it as just a movie. The Time interview goes into detail about Bigelow's artistic and aesthetic impulses, and allows her to walk back some of the claims about her film's extraordinary, extra-cinematic nature, a task she also undertook with Charlie Rose today when she called her film "a movie, not a documentary."

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