Praise for SACCO AND VANZETTI
Grade A! “ It's cleansing to see the facts laid out with intimacy and rigor…the film earns the comparison it makes to the squelching of due process for some of today's terror suspects.” -Entertainment Weekly
“A rabble-rousing tribute!” -New York Magazine
“A timely reminder of how things can go when politics obscure reasonable minds.”
-Boxoffice.com
“Thoughtful and thought-provoking.” -LA Times
“Does a superb job of condensing an overwhelming mass of documentation, archival imagery and artistic representation into a concise yet passionate history lesson whose relevance could not be timelier.” -Variety
“Relevant & Piercing!” -The New York Times
“Absorbing, compelling … delivers a full sense of the racism and bigotry and jingoism that seized the country between the world wars.” -Boston Globe (Read the review)
“Informative and moving.” -NY Post
“It shocks … brings into new being a story that it is still healthfully discomfiting to remember.” -The New Republic
“All too resonant today… impressively researched … Sacco and Vanzetti is trenchant, impassioned advocacy.” -AM New York
“Rigorously designed and deeply affecting.” -NY Sun
“Excellent…this compelling and powerful production can serve as a graceful elegy to the doomed men who were murdered by their adopted homeland.” -Film Threat
“Thorough and interesting throughout, a must for history buffs.” -Salon
“Essential and disturbingly of-the-moment documentary.” -NY Newsday
“Packed with information…It scarcely needs to be said how much this case has to do with contempt for foreigners, legal injustice, and xenophobic terror.” -Village Voice
“The evidence Miller assembles exonerating the defendants is nigh-well irrefutable. … supremely pertinent to our own era's democratic crises.” -Cineaste
“This is a wonderful film, as timeless as the struggle for human justice, as relevant as today’s headlines.” -Ken Burns
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