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This partnership between institutions would have been impossible without the contribution of Dance Program Coordinator Susan Larson. Before coming to Harvard, Larson was employed at Boston Ballet, first as an accompanist and then as director of operations at its school. Now at Harvard, she has brought her close ties to Boston Ballet with her. Bergmann describes Susan as “instrumental in making this relationship happen...
...film is presented as a compendium of eight of Larson’s tapes found by soldiers on the Pakistani border shortly after a battle with al Qaeda. The videos contain footage of Larson, his Afghan-American interpreter Wali Zarif (Wali Razaqi), and their cameraman Sonny (Sunil Sadarangani) on their way from Kabul to the Pakistani border in the search for bin Laden...
Also under heavy fire is the “unsympathetic” and “unbelievable” character of Don Larson, whose ill-advised actions frequently put his companions in danger. One reviewer complains that Lars acts “like a combination of John Wayne and Sylvester Stallone,” and declares that September Tapes is not a “serious film...
...tapes chronicle the efforts of American documentary filmmaker Don Larson, dazed and embittered by his grief over losses in the Sept. 11 attacks, to understand, record and possibly join the hunt for Osama bin Laden. He is accompanied by his translator, Wali Zarif, and a curiously laconic cameraman who is either a failed attempt at comic relief or simply an emblem of the film’s utter weirdness...
...Larson (who goes by “Lars”) and Zarif are invented characters, played by actor George Calil and actor/producer Wali Razaqi, respectively. They are part of Johnston’s actual five-man crew, which skillfully uses the roleplay to gain access to warlords, bounty hunters, and Northern Alliance members who believe they are being interviewed for a genuine documentary...