For more than 45 years, Kim Phuc has been known as “The Girl in the Picture.” The memories of June 8, 1972, follow her everywhere, from the convention halls where she now gives speeches to the doctor’s office in Florida where she gets laser treatments for the painful scars that wind across her body like timeworn lace.
Ever since her agony was captured in a famous photo after she was burned by a Napalm blast in Vietnam at age 9, Phuc, now 54, dreamed of channeling that dark day into something that would bring hope and beauty into her life.
And now, with her...
Ever since her agony was captured in a famous photo after she was burned by a Napalm blast in Vietnam at age 9, Phuc, now 54, dreamed of channeling that dark day into something that would bring hope and beauty into her life.
And now, with her...
- 9/22/2017
- by Cathy Free
- PEOPLE.com
Kirk Simon: "You walk down the hall of Princeton and the first office is Toni Morrison, then it's Tracy K Smith, then it's Jeffrey Eugenides."
In the third and final installment of my conversation with Kirk Simon on The Pulitzer At 100, we discuss filming Natalie Portman in Paris for her reading of Jorie Graham's The Dream of the Unified Field, Liev Schreiber (who played Martin Baron in Tom McCarthy's Spotlight) picking Death Of A Salesman and The Grapes Of Wrath, Ken Burns and The Statue of Liberty, Toni Morrison (Beloved), Jeffrey Eugenides (Middlesex), photographers John Filo (Kent State) and Nick Ut (Napalm Girl), finding Kim Phuc, Maureen Corrigan on Philip Roth, and the man who started it all - Joseph Pulitzer.
Anne-Katrin Titze: Did you direct the actors who were doing the readings at all?
Liev Schreiber chose Death Of A Salesman and The Grapes Of Wrath...
In the third and final installment of my conversation with Kirk Simon on The Pulitzer At 100, we discuss filming Natalie Portman in Paris for her reading of Jorie Graham's The Dream of the Unified Field, Liev Schreiber (who played Martin Baron in Tom McCarthy's Spotlight) picking Death Of A Salesman and The Grapes Of Wrath, Ken Burns and The Statue of Liberty, Toni Morrison (Beloved), Jeffrey Eugenides (Middlesex), photographers John Filo (Kent State) and Nick Ut (Napalm Girl), finding Kim Phuc, Maureen Corrigan on Philip Roth, and the man who started it all - Joseph Pulitzer.
Anne-Katrin Titze: Did you direct the actors who were doing the readings at all?
Liev Schreiber chose Death Of A Salesman and The Grapes Of Wrath...
- 7/24/2017
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
For the past several months, Kim Phuc has been undergoing laser treatments to rid her body of the pain - and scars - caused by the napalm bombs mistakenly dropped on the South Vietnamese temple where she had her family had taken refuge more than 43 years ago. On Saturday night, Phuc helped launch The Restoring Heroes Foundation, a non-profit that will pay for wounded veterans to get those same treatments, and any others they need that their medical insurance doesn't cover. "I wish I'd gotten treatment when I was 9 years old," Phuc, 52, tells People exclusively. "I suffered for almost 44 years.
- 3/7/2016
- by Nicole Weisensee Egan, @nweisenseeegan
- PEOPLE.com
For the past several months, Kim Phuc has been undergoing laser treatments to rid her body of the pain - and scars - caused by the napalm bombs mistakenly dropped on the South Vietnamese temple where she had her family had taken refuge more than 43 years ago. On Saturday night, Phuc helped launch The Restoring Heroes Foundation, a non-profit that will pay for wounded veterans to get those same treatments, and any others they need that their medical insurance doesn't cover. "I wish I'd gotten treatment when I was 9 years old," Phuc, 52, tells People exclusively. "I suffered for almost 44 years.
- 3/7/2016
- by Nicole Weisensee Egan, @nweisenseeegan
- PEOPLE.com
For the first decade after she was burned by napalm bombs mistakenly dropped on the south Vietnamese temple where she and her family had taken refuge, Kim Phuc was angry, bitter and full of hatred, she tells People. The scars that covered 65 percent of her body were not only disfiguring - making her believe no one would ever love her - they hurt. A lot. "I had a lot of physical and emotional pain," she says. Converting to Christianity at age 19 helped her finally find "peace and joy," she says. "It changed my life," Phuc, 54, shares. "My heart is healed.
- 2/18/2016
- by Nicole Weisensee Egan, @nweisenseeeegan
- PEOPLE.com
For the past 43 years, Kim Phuc has learned to live with constant pain. In June 1972, when she was just 9 years old, Phuk suffered burns on over 65 percent of her body when American forces mistakenly dropped napalm bombs on the South Vietnamese temple where she and her family had taken refuge. Associated Press photographer Nick Ut's photograph of her running naked and screaming from the flames became an iconic image of the Vietnam War - and earned him a Pulitzer. Over the years, Phuc made peace with what happened to her - forming a foundation to help other child victims of...
- 2/17/2016
- by Nicole Weisensee Egan, @nweisenseeeegan
- PEOPLE.com
For the past 43 years, Kim Phuc has learned to live with constant pain. In June 1972, when she was just 9 years old, Phuk suffered burns on over 65 percent of her body when American forces mistakenly dropped napalm bombs on the South Vietnamese temple where she and her family had taken refuge. Associated Press photographer Nick Ut's photograph of her running naked and screaming from the flames became an iconic image of the Vietnam War - and earned him a Pulitzer. Over the years, Phuc made peace with what happened to her - forming a foundation to help other child victims of...
- 2/17/2016
- by Nicole Weisensee Egan, @nweisenseeeegan
- PEOPLE.com
Dismaland Castle and Big Little Mermaid suffering from split-personality disorder. Dismaland: Banksy and more than 50 other artists create bemusement theme park Who gives a damn about the cheap thrills to be offered by the Star Wars-themed expansion of Disneyland when you can relish the thought-provoking wonders of Dismaland? The artist Banksy, whose 2010 documentary feature Exit Through the Gift Shop was nominated for an Academy Award, has come up with his latest revolutionary artwork: a theme park for the bemusement of the whole family! Or perhaps not quite the whole family. Banksy calls his 2.5-acre art show a “family theme park unsuitable for small children.” Another Dismaland plus. Its construction shrouded in secrecy, Dismaland opened today, Aug. 20, '15, on the sea front at Weston-super-Mare, in Somerset, southwest England. While the theme park was being built, locals believed that the work going on at the derelict Tropicana “lido” – shut down in...
- 8/20/2015
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
As a historical cinematic document that depicts the horrors of the Vietnam War with unflinching nerve and political consternation, Peter Davis’s Academy Award winning film Hearts and Minds stands unparalleled, forty years out still reverberating with the inherent subsequent amnesia of the war, its underlying capitalist ends and the shame of both of these truths, yet it’s very existence has been baptized in controversy since its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival back in 1974. Taking a brazenly anti-Vietnam War stance, the film juxtaposes vacuous Us politicians with the ugly aftermath of the misguided conflict in regretful Us soldiers and heart-wrenching footage of Vietnamese civilians mourning the senseless loss of their beloved. Part retrospective assessment of the back-door politics that led to the American funding of the Indochina War and the subsequent militarization of South Vietnam, and part straight-laced propaganda, Davis’s equally lauded and hated documentary is a...
- 7/1/2014
- by Jordan M. Smith
- IONCINEMA.com
Even 42 years later, Nick Ut can still remember June 8, 1972: The day he took the photo that changed his life. "It was on Highway 1 by the Cambodian border," he told People recently. When he took the photo, Ut was a young photographer with the Associated Press, covering the war that was destroying his native country. On the morning of June 8, Ut saw a group of refugees traveling down the highway. The South Vietnamese army had been fighting the Viet Cong outside the villages there, and the people living in the area were forced to flee. Ut was on the scene when South Vietnamese planes,...
- 6/8/2014
- by Nate Jones
- PEOPLE.com
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