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TICKLING GIANTS — Dr. Bassem Youssef & Sara Taksler Interview

October 24, 2017 By Leave a Comment

TICKLING GIANTS — Dr. Bassem Youssef & Sara Taksler Interview

Often called the Egyptian Jon Stewart, Dr. Bassem Youssef was the star of a wildly popular television show there that satirized politics in ways that country had never seen. Likely it won’t see one like it again any time soon. The show, entitled, “The Show,” was taken off the air despite high ratings when the… Read More »

Tagged With: censorship, Donald Trump, Dr. Bassem Youssef, Egypt, freedom of expression, Glen Beck, jon stewart, Jordan Klepper, media, political satire, protest, satire, Tahrir Square, Ted Cruz, the Koch brothers

INTENT TO DESTROY: DEATH, DENIAL, & DEPICTION

September 15, 2017 By Leave a Comment

INTENT TO DESTROY: DEATH, DENIAL, & DEPICTION

It comes across as a gimmick, using clips and behind-the-scene footage of 2017’s THE PROMISE to tell the story of the Armenian Genocide, and of Turkey’s ongoing campaign of denial about it. Yet, Joe Berlinger’s moving and maddening documentary, INTENT TO DESTROY: DEATH, DENIAL, & DEPICTION, is anything but a gimmick. By cutting and those… Read More »

Tagged With: Armenia, Armenian Genocide, Atom Eoyan, censorship, Daniel Gimenez Cacho, John Marshall Evans, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Terry George, THE PROMISE, Turkish denial

HOLLYWOOD BEFORE THE CODE: SEX! CRIME! HORROR! with Elliot Lavine, Tourguide

February 23, 2016 By Leave a Comment

HOLLYWOOD BEFORE THE CODE: SEX! CRIME! HORROR! with Elliot Lavine, Tourguide

If you had to sum up what it’s like to talk with Elliot Lavine, cinema programmer extraordinaire, scholar of film history and engaging raconteur, it might be the moment when an emergency vehicle went by the room where I was interviewing him on February 17, 2106. While ruminating on studio policies about film restoration, he… Read More »

Tagged With: African-American, Al Capone, Barbara Stanwyck, Cecil B. DeMille, censorship, cinema history, cultural upheaval, DOWNSTAIRS, economic upheaval, Edward G. Robinson, film history, FREAKS, gambling addiction, GONE WITH THE WIND, Great Depression, Greta Garbo, Howard Hawks, Howard Hughes, Irving Pichel, Joan Blondell, John Gilbert, Lee Garmes, licentiousness, Louis B. Meyer, miscegenation, Paul Muni, pre-code Hollywood, race relations, SAFE IN HELL, SCARFACE, Sessue Hayakawa, sex addiction, Tallulah Bankhead, THE BITTER TEA OF GENERAL YEN, THE CHEAT, THREE ON A MATCH, Todd Browning, TWO SECONDS, WILD BOYS OF THE ROAD, WIlliam Wellman

John Pirozzi Promises DON’T THINK I’VE FORGOTTEN: THE LOST MUSIC OF CAMBODIA’S ROCK AND ROLL

May 7, 2015 By Leave a Comment

John Pirozzi Promises DON’T THINK I’VE FORGOTTEN: THE LOST MUSIC OF CAMBODIA’S ROCK AND ROLL

John Pirozzi was a camera operator on assignment for a Matt Dillon film in Cambodia when he discovered the treasure that was and that country’s history of rock & roll. It was one of the first things we talked about on March 19, 2015. His documentary on the subject was one of the gems at… Read More »

Tagged With: American foreign policy, Angkor Watt, Cambodia, censorship, CITY OF GHOSTS, Dengue Fever, DON’T THINK I’VE FORGOTTEN: CAMBODIA’S LOST ROCK AND ROLL, ghost voice, Intellectual Property Rights Accord, John Gunther Dean, John PIrozzi, Khmer Rouge, Linda Saphan, Matt Dillon, Michael Graves, Norodom Sirivudh, Pol Pot, politics, pop music, Pou Vannary, Prince Sihanouk, rice cultivation, Ros Sereysothea, Sinn Sisamouth, Southeast Asia, Thida Buth, Trauma, Vietnam war, Yol Aularong

PIRATE RADIO

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

PIRATE RADIO

What PIRATE RADIO does that is so remarkable is to capture as closely as a film can what it was like to be a fan of rock & roll at a time when it was considered not just noise, but actual subversion.  Of course, in a way it was. This music was the anthem of… Read More »

Tagged With: based on a true story, censorship, cinema, comedy-drama, film, male posturing, media, music, narrative, Nick Frost, PIRATE RADIO, Richard Curtis, rock and roll, seasickness

SPIDER

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

SPIDER

David Cronenberg’s particular genius is getting inside our deepest, most primal fears, the ones that exist in the id and are impervious to any assuaging from the land of logic. Hence in RABID, Marilyn Chambers grows something suspiciously phallic in a most unexpected place, in VIDEODROME, our televisions turn on us, and in DEAD RINGERS,… Read More »

Tagged With: art as seduction, book to screen, censorship, David Cronenberg, delusion, director, horror, madness, mental illness, murder, mystery, Patrick McGrath, schizophrenia, silence as sound, suspense

INSIDE DEEP THROAT

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Filmmakers Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato have taken a hot button topic and turned it into a piquant and incisive sociological treatise on the societal attitudes towards sex and sexuality and how those attitudes, oddly, haven’t changed much even with the sexual revolution. That it’’s also a look at the eternal struggle between art and… Read More »

Tagged With: censorship, explicit sexual content, freedom of speech, Gerard Damiano, Harry Reems, LInda Lovelace, MIDNIGHT COWBOY, obscenity trial, porno chic, pornography

Richard Curtis Captures PIRATE RADIO

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Richard Curtis Captures PIRATE RADIO

Richard Curtis had more than just multiple story lines to juggle with PIRATE RADIO, he also had a cast afloat on a boat that was at the mercy of the whims of the ocean.  When we talked on October 21, 2009, the question of seasickness was inevitable. The real topic was music, and the revolutionary… Read More »

Tagged With: based on a true story, censorship, comedy-drama, Comic Relief, director, film cinema, media, music, narrative, Nick Frost, PIRATE RADIO, Richard Curtis, rock and roll, seasickness

David Cronenberg’s SPIDER

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

David Cronenberg’s SPIDER

David Cronenberg is on familiar turf with his latest film, SPIDER. The twist is that, while the film is rife with the horror, it stems from seeing the sane world through the eyes of a schizophrenic. When I talked with the soft-spoken and erudite director, I asked why he eschewed his usual trappings of blood and gore.… Read More »

Tagged With: art as seduction, book to screen, censorship, David Cronenberg, delusion, director, horror, madness, mental illness, murder, mystery, Patrick McGrath, schizophrenia, silence as sound, suspense

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