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- Loan Terms:
- Circulating
- Status:
- IN
- DVD007053
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Town Bloody Hall
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Hegedus, Chris; Pennebaker, D.A.
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Criterion Collection, 2020
- Title:
- Town Bloody Hall
- Director:
- Hegedus, Chris; Pennebaker, D.A.
- Production Co:
- Pennebaker
- Description:
- BluRay - Zone A. viewing copy. 1 videodisc of 1.
85 minutes.
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1979
- Publisher:
- Criterion Collection, 2020
- Language:
- English language with optional English subtitles for those hard of hearing
- Genre:
- Documentary
- Notes:
- 4K digital transfer. On April 30, 1971, a standing-room-only crowd of New York’s intellectual elite packed the city’s Town Hall theater to see Norman Mailer—fresh from the controversy over his essay “The Prisoner of Sex” and the backlash it received from leaders of the women’s movement—tangle with a panel of four prominent female thinkers and activists: Jacqueline Ceballos, Germaine Greer, Jill Johnston, and Diana Trilling. Part intellectual death match, part three-ring circus, the event was captured by the documentararian D. A. Pennebaker and a small crew, with Chris Hegedus later condensing the three-hour affair into this snapshot of a cultural moment.
Supplemental materials include: interview with Hegedus; audio commentary from 2004 featuring Hegedus and author Germaine Greer; footage from a 2004 celebration of the film; appearance from 1971 by author Norman Mailer, promoting his book “The Prisoner of Sex”; archival interviews with Greer and Mailer; an essay by critic Melissa Anderson.
- Link to:
- FII catalog |