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A COMPLETE UNKNOWN

December 26, 2024 By 1 Comment

A COMPLETE UNKNOWN

The point is made several times in the course of A COMPLETE UNKNOWN that its subject, Bob Dylan is a complete jerk. In one particularly satisfying moment, Joan Baez tosses him out of her room at the fabled Chelsea Hotel calling him just that after he makes a booty call and then withdraws into the… Read More »

Tagged With: 1960s, folk music, Greenwich Village, Huntington's Disease

FLY ME TO THE MOON

July 12, 2024 By Leave a Comment

FLY ME TO THE MOON

It is well worth overlooking the historical inaccuracies to be found in FLY ME TO THE MOON. I’m not talking about the conspiracy theories about how the first moon landing was faked on a soundstage. This bright and breezy look at what may or may not have really happened has dedicated itself to the emotional,… Read More »

Tagged With: 1960s, conspiracy theories, fake moon landing, Florida, Manhattan, moon landing, NASA, shadowy government agent

AMERICAN PASTORAL — Ewan McGregor Interview

October 20, 2016 By Leave a Comment

AMERICAN PASTORAL — Ewan McGregor Interview

Ewan McGregor had just spent the previous 24 hours flying in from London and then hosting a Q&A for his film, AMERICAN PASTORAL, at the Mill Valley Film Festival, but adrenalin got the better of fatigue when I spoke with him on October 10, 2016. The film charts the life of a Jewish-American golden boy… Read More »

Tagged With: 1960s, book to screen, director, father-daughter relationship, Philip Roth, politics, Twin Towers

MOONWALKERS

January 14, 2016 By 1 Comment

MOONWALKERS

It’s not that I believe every conspiracy theory that comes along, it’s just that I have a serious weakness for the imagination that goes into some of them. And so it is with the theory that while Apollo 11 may or may not have actually landed on the moon in 1969, the footage that we… Read More »

Tagged With: 1960s, 1969, Apollo 11, CIA, fake footage, moon walk, Stanley Kubrick

THE BLACK PANTHERS: VANGUARD OF THE REVOLUTION — Stanley Nelson

October 3, 2015 By Leave a Comment

THE BLACK PANTHERS: VANGUARD OF THE REVOLUTION — Stanley Nelson

When Stanley Nelson started working on THE BLACK PANTHERS: VANGUARD OF THE REVOLUTION, it was seven years ago and he thought the history of that movement was particularly relevant to those times. In 2015, he thinks it’s even more relevant. When I spoke to him on October 1, 2015, the echoes of the Panther movement in… Read More »

Tagged With: 10 point program, 1960s, 1970s, American history, Black Lives Matter, Black Panthers, Bobby Seale, Civil Rights Movement, COINTELPRO, dignity, Erica Huggins, FBI, Huey Newton, J. Edgar Hoover, Los Angeles, MacArthur Genius, Martin Luther King, New York, Oakland, open-carry, police brutality, Ralph Abernathy, revolution, San Francisco, Second Amendment, self-defense, Stanley Nelson

THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E.

August 11, 2015 By 2 Comments

THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E.

Having quaffed a drink laced with something that will shortly knock him cold, Napoleon Solo (Henry Cavill) does the sensible thing. He gathers some throw-pillows and carefully places first them, and then himself, upon the nearest sofa. Once, he explains to the person responsible for slipping him the mickey, he hit his head during the… Read More »

Tagged With: 1960s, Armie Hammer, atom bomb, based on a television series, CIA, cold war, espionage, feature, Henry Cavill, Illya Kuryakin, KGB, Napoleon Solo, narrative, THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E.

Stephen Winter Re-discovers JASON AND SHIRLEY

June 27, 2015 By 1 Comment

Stephen Winter Re-discovers JASON AND SHIRLEY

Click here to listen to the interview. When Shirley Clarke made PORTRAIT OF JASON, she was doing more than exercising her creative impulse. The Oscar™-winning director had been all but shut out of Hollywood, and returned to New York to pursue a career as an indie filmmaker rather than deal with being marginalized by the… Read More »

Tagged With: 1960s, African-American, Alan Ginsberg, Alfred Hitchcock, Anthony Perkins, Canada Lee, Carl Lee, cinema, civil rights, director, film, gay, Gus Van Sant, homophobia, Howl, interview, Jack Waters, James Baldwin, James Tobak, Jason Holliday, LGBT, Marion Crane, Miles Davis, MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO, narrative, New York City, Orson Welles, PARIS IS BURNING, PORTRAIT OF JASON, PSYCHO, racism, River Phoenix, ruthlessness, Sarah Shulman, sexism, Shirley Clark, Stephen Winter, THE TRIAL

TALK TO ME

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

TALK TO ME

“Wake up, God damn it!” is how TALK TO ME begins and that’s exactly what is going to happen to its lead characters, the people in their orbit, and the entire city of Washington D.C. The story may be formulaic, albeit based on actual events, but stars Don Cheadle and Chiwetel Ejiofor take charge of… Read More »

Tagged With: 1960s, African-American, based on a true story, Chiwitel Ejiofor, Don Cheadle, drama, history, Kasi Lemmons, keeping it real, music budget, narrative, Petey Green, protest, race relations, revolution, talk radio, Washington D.C.

Sam Greene Monitors THE WEATHER UNDERGROUND

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Sam Greene Monitors THE WEATHER UNDERGROUND

As a post-Baby Boomer, Sam Greene was barely alive when most of the events discussed in his documentary, THE WEATHER UNDERGROUND, occurred. Perhaps because he was able to come to the project without the emotions that colored that era that resulted in the balanced portrait he and partner Bill Siegel have created of those troubled… Read More »

Tagged With: 1960s, 9/11, activism, anti-war movement, Bill Siegal, controversy, funding, moral ambiguity, politics, protest, Sam Greene

Kasi Lemmons Says TALK TO ME

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Kasi Lemmons Says TALK TO ME

There is a piquant contrast between the calm, almost nurturing personality of filmmaker Kasi Lemmons and that of radio pioneer, Petey Green, the bombastic subject of her film, TALK TO ME. But, as I discovered when I talked to her on June 5, 2007, there is the same drive, the same commitment, and the same passion for what she… Read More »

Tagged With: 1960s, African-American, based on a true story, Chiwitel Ejiofor, director, Don Cheadle, drama, history, Kasi Lemmons, keeping it real, music budget, narrative, Petey Green, protest, race relations, revolution, talk radio, Washington D.C.

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