Topic: Sebastian Junger

And now for something completely different - a eulogy for someone other than Osama bin Hidin'. Filmmaker Tim Hetherington, a veteran war...

Five things to do this week: May 7 to 13

1. Queen West and Parkdale have long been spiritual centres for acclaimed indie rockers Metric, and band members Emily Haines and James Shaw give...

Q&A: Restrepo writer Sebastian Junger

When acclaimed photographer Tim Hetherington was killed in Libya two weeks ago, Sebastian Junger's world turned upside down. The U.S. journalist...

Junger pays tribute to "Restrepo" friend Tim Hetherington

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Filmmaker and writer Sebastian Junger on Thursday paid tribute to his "Restrepo" co-director and photojournalist Tim Hetherington, who was killed on Wednesday while working in Misrata, Libya.Junger wrote a piece for VanityFair.com that was addressed directly ...

Peter Weir returns

0 View Larger Image . It has been more than seven years since the release of Peter Weir's last film, "Master and Commander: The Far Side of the ...

The Best Books of 2010

According to the Chinese calendar, 2010 was the Year of the Tiger. But if you were to judge by the literary calendar, these past 12 months were...
The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men against the Sea by Sebastian Junger I read everything I can get my hands on. Steven King's The Green Mile was such a wonderful story that words cannot even describe how I felt ...

Afghan mission impossible in Restrepo

Films about Iraq and Afghanistan seldom do much at the box-office - but it would be a shame if Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger's documentary winner of the Sundance Jury Prize failed to attract attention. American journalist Junger, author of The Perfect ...

Restrepo's intimate war

The oddly named Restrepo is a fly-on-the-wall documentary that follows a platoon of American soldiers on a tour of duty in Afghanistan's Korengal valley - a location so dangerous that the horribly brave documentary makers Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger were guaranteed ...
The catastrophic flailings of the American markets in 2008, for example, were sometimes said to be caused by a perfect storm of events which united to create chaos.Credit for the term is usually given to Sebastian Junger, who wrote a book ...