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	Cincinnati CityBeat : 03/17/2004 : Cliffhanger
		Director Kevin Macdonald followed the footsteps of his mountain climber subects to make Touching the Void.
		Macdonald is the British filmmaker whose won an Oscar for his documentary about Palestinian terrorists at the 1972 Munich Olympics, One Day in September.
		To use a term Macdonald dislikes, Touching the Void is a "docudrama." Simpson and Yates both recount events during on-camera interviews, while actors and climbers reenact events for a small crew filming during adverse conditions in the Andes and the Alps.
	www.citybeat.com /2004-03-17/film2.shtml (1219 words)

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		MacDonald’s writings are distinguished by their scarcely disguised subtext that Jews are the enemies of Western civilization.
		Although he does not question that the Holocaust took place, MacDonald was happy to testify, in January of 2000, on behalf of David Irving, when the disgraced historian sued author Deborah Lipstadt on libel charges for naming him in her 1993 history of Holocaust denial as one of its leading exponents.
		For MacDonald, the supposed prevalence of Jews “reinforced the popular image of Jews as servants of foreign interests and enemies of ethnic Poles” and therefore anti-Semitism was in some measure a logical reaction to Jewish sins against Polish culture.
	www.kevinmacdonald.net /laksin.htm (3911 words)

	Slate -- Reply to Tooby & Shulevitz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Once Kevin MacDonald was a flower child, a peacenik, a man who abandoned his Catholicism during the Vietnam era.
		But MacDonald is an intellectual star of the radical right, and he is cited by the likes of former Klan leader David Duke to justify neo-Nazism.
		Mark Potok and Heidi Beirich are the director and deputy director of the Southern Poverty Law Center's Intelligence Project.
	www.kevinmacdonald.net /Beirich-Potok.htm (298 words)

	CinemaSpeak.Com - RECREATING THE VOID: An interview with Touching The Void director Kevin Macdonald.
		British director Kevin Macdonald's (One Day in September) documentary Touching The Void blends both a dramatic recreation of the events with a traditional documentary approach to the story, which was first told in Simpson's best-selling book.
		MacDonald, who shot the re-enactment footage on location at Siula Grande and also the Alps, wraps these elements inside a nail-biting movie bursting with tension at every turn
		I recently sat down with Kevin Macdonald at the Los Angeles press day for Touching The Void, which IFC Films released in New York on January 23.
	www.cinemaspeak.com /Interviews/ttvint.html (1789 words)

	Joe Simpson and Director Kevin Macdonald Discuss Scaling the Heights in "Touching the Void" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Director Kevin Macdonald on location in the Alps filming "Touching the Void." Photo by Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert, courtesy of IFC Films.
		Macdonald: It's intentionally very different from "One Day in September." The similarities are far, far fewer than the differences, and stylistically it's going in an opposite direction.
		Macdonald: There's definitely something strange going on at the moment in the interaction between fiction and documentary, with "American Splendor," which combines animation, documentary and drama, and Michael Winterbottom's "In This World," which comes at documentaries from the drama point of view.
	www.indiewire.com /people/people_040129void.html (1855 words)

	Eye Weekly - In moral peril - 02.19.04
		A British filmmaker and journalist, Macdonald has often said that he aims to make documentaries that are as compelling and fully cinematic as the best fictional features.
		Macdonald brought Simpson's story to the screen without distorting the facts or sacrificing any of the original book's impact.
		Macdonald dramatizes Simpson's physical and mental deterioration in a manner that is increasingly surreal and subjective, gradually replacing the fierce realism of the early scenes with a more blatantly unnatural approach.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_02.19.04/film/touchingthevoid.php (1079 words)

	iFMagazine.com Reviews - ONE DAY IN SEPTEMBER (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		To achieve the suspense documentarian Kevin MacDonald compiled and pieced together interviews and an abundance of archival footage of ABC’s Olympic coverage to recreate the events.
		In the process MacDonald finds revelatory new information including numerous botched rescue plans by the Germans who were notable for their efficiency.
		The one astonishing thing that director Kevin MacDonald did was get an interview with Jamal Al-Gashey one of the Black September Palestinian terrorists who has been living in hiding for 28 years.
	www.ifmagazine.com /review.asp?article=663 (412 words)

	WIBW \| Kevin MacDonald bio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The moment Kevin MacDonald took his first journalism class his freshmen year of high school he knew he wanted to make journalism a profession.
		Kevin came to Topeka from Lawrence, Kansas graduating from the University of Kansas' William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communication in May 2005.
		Kevin was born in Providence, Rhode Island but grew up in Shawnee, Kansas.
	www.wibw.com /station/bios/news/1637491.html (218 words)

	Telegraph \| Entertainment \| Film-makers on film: Kevin Macdonald (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Macdonald's choice for this slot (Nicolas Roeg's Walkabout) is a film that he explicitly mined for ideas and techniques for Touching the Void.
		While Roeg's camera lovingly captured the burnished plains of the Australian outback, Macdonald's Touching the Void explores the ferocious peaks of the Siula Grande.
		Macdonald cites a host of techniques inspired by Walkabout, including the use of dizzying zooms to give a sense of scale, and splintered sound and editing to mirror the climbers' disintegrating wits.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2003/12/06/bffmof06.xml (779 words)

	Amazon.ca: Touching the Void: DVD: Kevin MacDonald,Brendan Mackey,Joe Simpson,Simon Yates,Nicholas Aaron,Richard Hawking (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Kevin Macdonald's Touching the Void is an expert telling of an amazing true tale.
		Macdonald, perhaps to keep up the pace, eschews much of the personal drama underpinning the survival tale.
		The climbing scenes, filmed by Kevin Macdonald at night and during storms as necessary to remain true to the story, are perhaps some of the best you'll ever see.
	www.amazon.ca /Touching-Void-Kevin-MacDonald/dp/B00020X94W (2560 words)

	Kevin MacDonald (director) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kevin Macdonald (born October 28, 1967) is a Scottish documentary film director, best known for One Day in September (2000) and Touching the Void (2003).
		Macdonald was able to find Al-Gashey through intermediaries, and was able to convince him that the film would only be truly authentic if Al-Gashey gave his side of the story.
		Since the interview was conducted entirely in Arabic, and Al-Gashey (through paranoia or annoyance) frequently stormed out of the interview room, Macdonald didn't know if he had anything usable until he returned to London and hired an Arabic translator.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kevin_MacDonald_(director) (422 words)

	CinemaSpeak.Com - Touching The Void
		In the documentary Touching The Void, director Kevin Macdonald intercuts interview footage with both Simpson and Yates with a dramatic recreation of the men's harrowing 1985 adventure on the Peruvian Andes' mountain known as Siula Grande.
		The words "dramatic recreation" certainly are good reasons to create skepticism in potential viewers of this film, but these scenes are worlds away from what someone raised on a steady diet of, say, "America's Most Wanted" would expect.
		Macdonald, his crew, two actors -- Brendan Mackey and Nicholas Aaron -- and Simpson and Yates, traveled to Siula Grande, and also the Alps, to dramatize the events.
	www.cinemaspeak.com /Reviews/ttv.html (630 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Oscar winner backs shorts contest
		Oscar-winning director Kevin Macdonald has launched the fourth Nokia Shorts, an annual contest for films designed for mobiles and other portable devices.
		Macdonald said the competition was "all about the idea and how you execute it".
		Macdonald's other films include Touching the Void, a tale of real-life mountaineering heroism named best British film at the 2004 Baftas.
	news.bbc.co.uk /go/rss/-/1/hi/entertainment/5199580.stm (312 words)

	At the Movies: Kevin Macdonald
		Based on the real-life survival story of Joe Simpson and Simon Yates, 'Touching the Void' tells of two mountaineers who, in 1985, climbed the west face of Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes, narrowly escaping death.
		MARGARET POMERANZ: I was very keen to talk to Kevin Macdonald, the director, about his film.
		KEVIN MACDONALD: I did the interviews first, even before we had the finance for the whole film.
	www.abc.net.au /atthemovies/txt/s1139506.htm (721 words)

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		Kevin Macdonald was born in Glasgow, Scotland, the grandson of the Hungarian-born English filmmaker Emeric Pressburger, and educated at Glenalmond College, followed by Oxford University.
		After making a series of biographical documentaries, Macdonald directed One Day in September (2000), about the killing of Israeli atheletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics, which won an Academy Award for Best Documentary.
		Macdonald has also been associate editor at Faber and Faber since 1995: he co-edited The Faber Book of Documentary (1997), and wrote Emeric Pressburger: The Life and Death of a Screenwriter (Faber, 1994, winner of BFI film book of the year and short-listed for the NCR non-fiction prize).
	dfgdocs.com /Directory/Names/1455.aspx (271 words)

	PBS Touching the Void :: Story
		Kevin Macdonald is an award-winning director who has made enormous in-roads in documentary filmmaking in recent years.
		Most recently Macdonald directed the feature-length documentary, BEING MICK, the authorized account of the life of Mick Jagger.
		Macdonald developed a similar biographical documentary, THE MAN WHO LISTENED TO BRITAIN, in 2000 portraying the surrealist painter, anthropologist and filmmaker Humphrey Jennings.
	www.warrenmiller.com /wmiller/pbs04/thefilm.html (148 words)

	MovieMaker Blog » Moviemaker of the Week: Kevin Macdonald
		Director Kevin Macdonald and Forest Whitaker on the set of THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND Photo Credit: Neil Davidson.
		The Academy Award-winning director of One Day in September, which tells the story of the 1972 Munich Olympics, has set his sights on the charismatic and infamous former Ugandan dictator Idi Amin with the biopic The Last King of Scotland, opening September 27th.
		Drawing from the realism of his past documentary projects, Macdonald insisted on shooting the film in Uganda, saying: “I wanted to capture that different, more realistic image of Africa, which I think will surprise people.
	www.moviemaker.com /blog/?p=94 (270 words)

	PopMatters \| Film \| Interviews \| Christopher McQuarrie - The Way of the Gun (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Kevin Macdonald speaks to me by phone from London, where, he tells me, he's rebuilding his house.
		Macdonald has an easy, self-reflective manner, and is frank about his desire to make documentaries with compelling narrative structures.
		I asked Kevin Macdonald how his film compares with conventional documentaries, which purport to tell a single truth.
	www.popmatters.com.cob-web.org:8888 /film/interviews/macdonald-kevin.shtml (2734 words)

	ToxicUniverse.com - Kevin Macdonald - 2003 - Touching the Void Movies Review
		I'm thankful that Kevin Macdonald took on this project—mountain climbing of this magnitude is something I (and over 99% of the population) can only relate to through films like this.
		To me it's enough challenge to climb the stairs to the top of Notre Dame or the dome at St. Paul's, so the most I could've done was camp out at the base camp like the Peruvian tourist the two climbers enlist to watch their gear.
		Macdonald mirrors Errol Morris' Thin Blue Line techniques to shape his film, relying primarily on strong narratives from both Simpson and Yates with close-up camera shots and on amazingly realistic re-creations with other world class mountain climbers (Brendan Mackey as Joe Simpson and Nicholas Aaron as Simon Yates).
	www.culturedose.net /review.php?rid=10005500 (1096 words)

	'Touching the Void' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Director Kevin Macdonald's blend of drama and documentary tells the true story of a week in the lives of two twentysomething men who faced the best -- and worst -- in themselves during a climb of the 21,000-feet Siula Grande mountain in the Peruvian Andes.
		Ascending the peak wouldn't be the problem for Brits Joe Simpson and Simon Yates (although no one had ever conquered it before); descending it would be like entering the circles of hell.
		But Macdonald, an Academy Award winner for his documentary "One Day in September" about the 1972 Olympic hostage crisis, has made a movie that shows the face of grit, guts and determination.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/04065/281246.stm (382 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Film \| No disaster for Touching the Void
		Director Kevin MacDonald revealed he felt like a "fraud" when he collected his Bafta on Sunday for his docu-drama Touching the Void.
		Despite his surprise at the win, MacDonald told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the viewers' response had been "amazing".
		Touching the Void is based on the book of Joe Simpson's survival and employs a mixture of real life accounts from the two climbers and reconstructed dramatic scenes on the mountain.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/film/3491989.stm (366 words)

	PopMatters \| Film \| Interviews \| Christopher McQuarrie - The Way of the Gun
		The occasion for our conversation is the U.S. theatrical release of his Academy Award-winning documentary, One Day in September, which recounts the horrifying 21 hours during the 1972 Munich Olympic Games, when a small group of Palestinian guerillas calling themselves Black September took 11 Israeli athletes and coaches hostage in the Olympic Village.
		A director of television documentaries, Howard Hawks: American Artist and The Moving World of George Rickey (and brother of Trainspotting producer Andrew Macdonald), Kevin Macdonald is clearly interested in making documentaries for an audience that extends beyond those folks who watch the History Channel or seek out art house videos.
		The filmmakers' (Macdonald and producers John Battsek and Arthur Cohn) opinions are mixed in with those of the interviewees, who include the only surviving terrorist, German police and government officials, the head of the Israeli secret service, the single Israeli team member who escaped the Palestinians, and the relatives of the Israeli victims.
	www.popmatters.com /film/interviews/macdonald-kevin.shtml (2731 words)

	The Last King Of Scotland \| The A.V. Club
		Because Ugandan dictator Idi Amin was such a murderous creep, it takes a lot to convince people that he might've also been a fun guy to party with.
		But in The Last King Of Scotland, director Kevin Macdonald has two strong persuaders: a kinetic style, and Forest Whitaker.
		In Macdonald's hands, The Last King Of Scotland's breakneck rush through a heady half-decade of African nationalism plays like Boogie Nights: The Sub-Saharan Years.
	www.avclub.com /content/node/53501/print (362 words)

	Kevin Macdonald \| Fox SearchLight
		Director Kevin Macdonald talks about working with Forest Whitaker.
		Director Kevin Macdonald talks about the myth of Idi Amin.
		Director Kevin Macdonald explains the title of the film.
	content.foxsearchlight.com /taxonomy/term/129 (79 words)

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		Director Kevin MacDonald makes excellent use of news footage, promotional films, and the music of the early 1970s.
		MacDonald sought to make a "documentary thriller" with this film, and he succeeded.
		Director Kevin MacDonald was inspired to make the film after seeing WHEN WE WERE KINGS.
	www.dvdideas.com /index.asp?KeyId=359 (540 words)

	Fox Searchlight - Last King of Scotland
		Director Kevin Macdonald introduced the Telluride screening of"The Last King of Scotland"by saying,"It's my first feature.
		the last king of scotlanddirector : kevin macdonald...and lunacy is all in the eyes inthe last king of scotland, which takes its title from one...there’s another narrow divide in thismovie– between boyhood and manhood.
		The Last King of Scotland QandA: Director Kevin MacDonald, Kerry Washington and James McAvoy Studio: Fox Searchlight Based on the events of the brutal Ugandan dictator Idi Amin's regime, as seen by his personal physician during the 1970s.
	www.foxsearchlight.com /lastkingofscotland (1202 words)

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