![]() ![]() Covering only a slice of the history the book ranges over, from the battle of Little Big Horn to the murder of Sitting Bull, the film - from director Yves Simoneau ( Nuremberg) - nevertheless encompasses more than enough lying and cheating and broken treaties on the part of the U.S. If you can stand a devastating indictment of how the Native Americans were thoroughly fucked over by the European settlers on their land, and you can’t bother yourself with Dee Brown’s book of the same name, then this is an excellent, searingly unsentimental second best. It starts off its summer season with the smart, powerful, heartbreaking original movie Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, debuting somewhat defiantly today, the Sunday of Memorial Day weekend, as if to kick us all in the ass with its bold depth, relevance, and conviction. But thank god for HBO, which doesn’t turn off its brain for the warmer months. ![]() The summer television season is about to start, and here we go with an onslaught of asinine reality game shows and idiotic sitcoms. ![]()
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