MOVIES - Nov. 21, 1988

The IDA also honored Jack Coogan, curator of the Robert and Frances Flaherty Study Center at Claremont. Five documentaries were honored: Bruce Weber’s “Broken Noses,” about a fighter turned coach; Bill Couturie’s “Dear America: Letters Home From Vietnam”; “Nobody Listened,” the Jorge Ulla-Nestor Almendros account of Cuba’s political prisons under both Battista and Castro; “The Thin Blue Line,” Errol Morris’ look at a miscarriage of justice in a Texas murder trial; and “Who Killed Vincent Chin?” by Renee Tajima and Christine Choy, about two white Detroit auto workers acquitted of beating an Asian to death. A student documentary award went to two UCLA students, Frank Marlowe and Kevin Robinson, for “Manatic,” about an elderly retarded man who works nights at a Los Angeles Laundromat.