The Bang-Bang Club, a movie about four young photojournalists, called the Bang-Bang Club, who documented the last, bloody days of apartheid in South Africa, had its U.S. premiere last night at the Tribeca Film Festival and opens today in New York City, Chicago and Southern California and next week in more cities across North America. Written and directed by Steven Silver, the film stars Ryan Phillippe, Malin Akerman, Taylor Kitsch, Neels Van Jaarsveld and Frank Rautenbach. See the trailer here.
The tie-in book is The Bang-Bang Club: Snapshots From a Hidden War by João Silva and Greg Marinovich, the two surviving members of the quartet (Basic Books, $16.99, 9780465019786). Yesterday Fresh Air spoke with Silva, who lost both legs in a landmine explosion in Afghanistan last October while on contract for the New York Times and is now recovering in Walter Reed Army Medical Center, and Marinovich, who has been shot four times while covering conflicts around the world. Marinovich appears tomorrow evening at the Union Square Barnes & Noble in Manhattan in Pen to Paper, a conversation with Steven Silver.