ARMADILLO Coming To US Screens In Early 2011

Some fantastic news here with word that stellar Danish war documentary Armadillo will be coming to US screens in early 2011 via Lorber Films. The first documentary ever selected to the Critics Week program in Cannes - where it took top prize - this is quite simply one of the best films I have seen all year. Here's the official word:

NEW YORK, NY, November 9, 2010 - Lorber Films announced today the acquisition of U.S. rights to ARMADILLO, the controversial documentary by director Janus Metz that provoked furious debate in his home country of Denmark, as well as an inquiry by the Danish government into the actions of the soldiers captured in the film in a deadly skirmish with Taliban fighters.  The film has sparked robust discussion in the international press about the rules of engagement and thrill-seeking behavior of young soldiers fighting in Afghanistan - and beyond.  In journalistic style par excellence, Metz gained intensely intimate access to his subjects before their deployment, and then embedded himself with their combat unit at "Armadillo," the forward operating base in Afghanistan's perilous Helmand province. Surpassing comparisons to other documentaries, ARMADILLO evokes some of the great war films of modern cinema. This spring, ARMADILLO was the first documentary to screen in the Critics' Week competition at Cannes, and after winning the Critics' Prize there went on to garner the prestigious Grierson Award at the London Film Festival as well as an unprecedented honor of six Cinema Eye nominations, with winners to be announced in January.

Lorber states, "ARMADILLO literally explodes on the screen. Unlike any other war documentary I've ever seen this astute exploration of the culture of war matches young soldiers' hyper state of mind with the filmic correlative-like Apocalypse Now it's pure cinema on steroids."