Exclusive: The Firm has acquired the rights to Elaine Brown's 1992 memoir, A Taste of Power: A Black Woman’s Story about the first (and only) woman to lead the Black Panther Party. Brown led the party from 1974 to 1977 while co-founder Huey Newton was in exile in Cuba. Newton founded the party with Bobby Seale in 1966 and Brown joined as a member just two years later. The Firm is currently in negotiations with a writer to adapt Brown’s book, which will then be produced by…...
- 9/22/2017
- Deadline
[[tmz:video id="0_j9thkrpa"]] Jada Pinkett Smith did something remarkable and powerful Sunday, posting words that could have been delivered by Black Panther Eldridge Cleaver 50 years ago. Jada -- whose husband, Will Smith, was overlooked by the Academy for his performance in "Concussion" -- says in a super powerful way, "Maybe it's time we pull back our resources and we put them back into our communities, and we make programs for ourselves that acknowledge us in ways that we see fit,...
- 1/18/2016
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
A new documentary following the rise of the Black Panthers movement is a sympathetic primer that misses much of the brutal detail
Stanley Nelson Jr’s The Black Panthers: Vanguard Of The Revolution is a tragedy of squandered promise and political disillusionment, and the perils of the cul-de-sac “revolutionary” mindset of the American left in the late 60s and early 70s. It briskly lays out the history of the Black Panther Party For Self-Defense, founded in Oakland, California in late 1966 by students Bobby Seale and Huey P Newton. The world it vividly depicts – a million afros, lots of leather, tons of funk – seems upside down when compared with the politics of today: back then, all the paranoia about fascist government and enthusiasm for unrestrained gunplay were to be found on the left, not the right, as with today’s Tea Party.
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Stanley Nelson Jr’s The Black Panthers: Vanguard Of The Revolution is a tragedy of squandered promise and political disillusionment, and the perils of the cul-de-sac “revolutionary” mindset of the American left in the late 60s and early 70s. It briskly lays out the history of the Black Panther Party For Self-Defense, founded in Oakland, California in late 1966 by students Bobby Seale and Huey P Newton. The world it vividly depicts – a million afros, lots of leather, tons of funk – seems upside down when compared with the politics of today: back then, all the paranoia about fascist government and enthusiasm for unrestrained gunplay were to be found on the left, not the right, as with today’s Tea Party.
Related: New Black Panthers documentary tells the story behind the berets
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- 10/19/2015
- by John Patterson
- The Guardian - Film News
With the Us convulsed by contemporary incidents of racist police brutality, a new documentary charts the rise of the Black Panthers. But what is the true legacy of the revolutionary group once feted by the 1960s left and whose look defined ‘radical chic’?
The right to bear arms that is enshrined in the Us constitution is now most fiercely defended by rightwing libertarians. But it wasn’t always the case. In the mid-1960s, that decade of revolt and turmoil, Huey Newton, a 24-year-old law student in Oakland, California, realised that citizens of that state had the legal right to carry arms openly.
A teenage thug who taught himself to read, Newton had consumed revolutionary literature from Marx to Malcolm X and had become, in his early 20s, a political activist bent on promoting the rights of his fellow African Americans. But he was steeped in violence. After serving a...
The right to bear arms that is enshrined in the Us constitution is now most fiercely defended by rightwing libertarians. But it wasn’t always the case. In the mid-1960s, that decade of revolt and turmoil, Huey Newton, a 24-year-old law student in Oakland, California, realised that citizens of that state had the legal right to carry arms openly.
A teenage thug who taught himself to read, Newton had consumed revolutionary literature from Marx to Malcolm X and had become, in his early 20s, a political activist bent on promoting the rights of his fellow African Americans. But he was steeped in violence. After serving a...
- 10/18/2015
- by Andrew Anthony
- The Guardian - Film News
Chicago – If you want to experience the old cliché of “everything old is new again,” look no further than the excellent documentary, “The Black Panthers: Vanguard of a Revolution.” The formation of the famous 1960s political group is rooted in the same issues that came out of Ferguson and Baltimore – the marginalization and harassment of African Americans by law enforcement authority. Yes, the group’s techniques were questionable, but so was the use of tax payer money – through the FBI – to destroy the organization.
Rating: 4.5/5.0
The Black Panthers were formed in 1966 out of Oakland, California, anchored by notable activists Huey Newton and Bobby Seale. With police harassment against African Americans reaching another crescendo during the mid-1960s, the Panthers reacted with revolutionary confrontation techniques. These strategies struck a chord in highest levels of federal law enforcement, and the FBI began a sting operation to destroy the group from within.
Rating: 4.5/5.0
The Black Panthers were formed in 1966 out of Oakland, California, anchored by notable activists Huey Newton and Bobby Seale. With police harassment against African Americans reaching another crescendo during the mid-1960s, the Panthers reacted with revolutionary confrontation techniques. These strategies struck a chord in highest levels of federal law enforcement, and the FBI began a sting operation to destroy the group from within.
- 9/25/2015
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Revolutionaries. Visionaries. Militants. Terrorists.
All of these words, and so very many more, can be and have been used to describe the group known as The Black Panthers. Born out of a point in American history where a never ending war was being broadcast on our TV sets and racism flooding our streets, The Black Panther Part for Self-Defense became at first a group seeking equality only to become a groundbreaking collection of African American men and women that would forever change the landscape of this very nation. And thanks to legendary documentarian Stanley Nelson Jr., the party (for the first time) now has a feature length documentary taking a clear-eyed look at the history of this monumentally influential collection of revolutionaries.
The Black Panthers: Vanguard of The Revolution tells the rise and fall of this group, with Nelson going directly to some of the top players in the infrastructure of the party.
All of these words, and so very many more, can be and have been used to describe the group known as The Black Panthers. Born out of a point in American history where a never ending war was being broadcast on our TV sets and racism flooding our streets, The Black Panther Part for Self-Defense became at first a group seeking equality only to become a groundbreaking collection of African American men and women that would forever change the landscape of this very nation. And thanks to legendary documentarian Stanley Nelson Jr., the party (for the first time) now has a feature length documentary taking a clear-eyed look at the history of this monumentally influential collection of revolutionaries.
The Black Panthers: Vanguard of The Revolution tells the rise and fall of this group, with Nelson going directly to some of the top players in the infrastructure of the party.
- 9/11/2015
- by Joshua Brunsting
- CriterionCast
Stanley Nelson’s new documentary about the Black Panther Party is admirably sober, but it nevertheless evokes great urgency and passion. Using archival footage and interviews — with historians, with the Panthers themselves, and with the cops who pursued them — it brings to life a still-contentious historical moment and, without too much insistence or obviousness, artfully draws parallels with today. Watching it, we recognize that the things the Panthers fought against remain a part of our society. Whether that’s a testament to the quixotic nature of their project, or just a sign that more work needs to be done, is up to us to decide.Though the period he’s tackling lasts only about a decade — from the group’s formation in 1966 by activists Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton, through to its fragmentation in the mid- to late-70s — Nelson (Freedom Riders, Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple...
- 9/5/2015
- by Bilge Ebiri
- Vulture
Formed in 1966, the group remains misunderstood and poorly represented – especially on film. The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution tries to sort the fact from fiction
The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense was founded in Oakland, California, in 1966 by Bobby Seale and Huey Newton, two activists with southern roots who had both been involved with the civil rights movement. The pair’s political leanings allied more with the militancy of Malcolm X than the nonviolent methods of Martin Luther King, and a central pillar of their ideology, outlined in an ambitious 10-point program, was the necessity for their community to defend itself, bearing arms, against harassment and brutality by the city’s predominantly white police force.
Though the Panthers launched as a local concern, chapters soon sprang up nationwide against the backdrop of the era’s burgeoning countercultural politics (Vietnam, the student movement); a global confluence of anti-colonial movements...
The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense was founded in Oakland, California, in 1966 by Bobby Seale and Huey Newton, two activists with southern roots who had both been involved with the civil rights movement. The pair’s political leanings allied more with the militancy of Malcolm X than the nonviolent methods of Martin Luther King, and a central pillar of their ideology, outlined in an ambitious 10-point program, was the necessity for their community to defend itself, bearing arms, against harassment and brutality by the city’s predominantly white police force.
Though the Panthers launched as a local concern, chapters soon sprang up nationwide against the backdrop of the era’s burgeoning countercultural politics (Vietnam, the student movement); a global confluence of anti-colonial movements...
- 9/3/2015
- by Ashley Clark
- The Guardian - Film News
Clint Eastwood revisited Harry Callahan three more times, usually whenever his career was in the dumps. If Dirty Harry was a cultural phenomenon and Magnum Force a respectable follow-up, the rest are uninspired cash-ins. The main law Harry enforces in these sequels is the Law of Diminishing Returns.
Given Dirty Harry‘s San Francisco setting, something like The Enforcer (1976) was inevitable. After all, San Fran hosted Haight-Ashbury, hippie capital of the world; was a favored site for Black Panther and Sds protests; headquarters of the nascent gay rights movement; victim of Weathermen bombings and the racially-charged Zebra murders. Writers Gail Morgan Hickman and S.W. Schurr based their script, originally titled “Moving Target,” on the Symbionese Liberation Army which kidnapped Patty Hearst. Dean Riesner (who cowrote the original Harry) and Stirling Silliphant (In the Heat of the Night) polished the film.
Harry battles the People’s Revolutionary Strike Froce, led by...
Given Dirty Harry‘s San Francisco setting, something like The Enforcer (1976) was inevitable. After all, San Fran hosted Haight-Ashbury, hippie capital of the world; was a favored site for Black Panther and Sds protests; headquarters of the nascent gay rights movement; victim of Weathermen bombings and the racially-charged Zebra murders. Writers Gail Morgan Hickman and S.W. Schurr based their script, originally titled “Moving Target,” on the Symbionese Liberation Army which kidnapped Patty Hearst. Dean Riesner (who cowrote the original Harry) and Stirling Silliphant (In the Heat of the Night) polished the film.
Harry battles the People’s Revolutionary Strike Froce, led by...
- 6/20/2015
- by Christopher Saunders
- SoundOnSight
DreamWorks is moving forward on their production of the Aaron Sorkin-scripted film The Trial of the Chicago 7. Steven Spielberg has been looking to direct it since 2008, but according to an inside source, no movement has been made. The source explains that “every two months it’s been revisited. The title would come up in conversation at production meetings. But it’s just been hanging.”
Not anymore. The studio is pushing it forward, and according to Deadline, they are looking to hire Paul Greengrass (Bourne franchise) to direct it. Greengrass was also looking to direct it back in 2008 when Spielberg's plate started to fill up with other projects. It's funny to see this news pop up again five years later.
The movie is "based on the infamous 1969 federal conspiracy trial arising out of the protesters vs police violent rioting at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago that transfixed the nation...
Not anymore. The studio is pushing it forward, and according to Deadline, they are looking to hire Paul Greengrass (Bourne franchise) to direct it. Greengrass was also looking to direct it back in 2008 when Spielberg's plate started to fill up with other projects. It's funny to see this news pop up again five years later.
The movie is "based on the infamous 1969 federal conspiracy trial arising out of the protesters vs police violent rioting at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago that transfixed the nation...
- 7/24/2013
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
Chicago – Right on the heels of the Trayvon Martin verdict is a new film about a similar divisive and race-controversial event, “Fruitvale Station.” Actor Michael B. Jordan portrays Oscar Grant, a 22 year old African American who was shot in the back during an arrest procedure in Oakland, California.
“Fruitvale Station” refers to the public transportation stop in Oakland where Grant was detained on New Year’s Day, 2009. During his arrest, which he was alleged to be resisting, he was shot in the back by the arresting officer and died the next day. This sparked a citywide protest and a trial that was similar in nature to the Trayvon Martin case.
On Monday, July 1st, two of the actors appeared on the red carpet at the Chicago premiere of the film. Michael B. Jordan and Oscar winner Octavia Spencer – who portrayed Oscar Grant’s mother Wanda – spoke of their relationship with the real life people,...
“Fruitvale Station” refers to the public transportation stop in Oakland where Grant was detained on New Year’s Day, 2009. During his arrest, which he was alleged to be resisting, he was shot in the back by the arresting officer and died the next day. This sparked a citywide protest and a trial that was similar in nature to the Trayvon Martin case.
On Monday, July 1st, two of the actors appeared on the red carpet at the Chicago premiere of the film. Michael B. Jordan and Oscar winner Octavia Spencer – who portrayed Oscar Grant’s mother Wanda – spoke of their relationship with the real life people,...
- 7/16/2013
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Talk about an intriguing director(s)/subject pairing. Filmmaker, scholar, distinguished professor at New York University, and director of the Institute of Afro-American Affairs, Manthia Diawara and British-Ghanaian experimental filmmaker John Akomfrah (who I don't think needs much of an intro around here), have teamed up to co-direct a documentary on the life of Kathleen Cleaver - once member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (Sncc), and eventual Spokesperson for the Black Panther Party (the first woman on its central committee), and wife of the party's Minister Of Information, Eldridge Cleaver. The USA/Algeria/France co-production is...
- 7/12/2013
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
I posted this campaign in early January, so it's not clear to me if he launched a new one, or if this is the same exact campaign. It's end date is set for June 14, which would mean that it's a 5+ month campaign. I wasn't aware that you could set one up that was stretched out that much. Most are usually 30 to 45 days. Not 150 to 200 days. But, in short, Black Panther Party co-founder and Chairman Bobby Seale has launched (or relaunched) an IndieGogo campaign to raise $420,000 to begin production of the cinematic life story of the Black Panthers and Seale, which he hopes to see made this year. Titled Seize The Time, The Eighth Defendant, which is also the title of Seale's...
- 3/29/2013
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
By Alex Simon
Mumia Abu-Jamal has been one of journalism’s most outspoken voices for nearly forty years. However, Mumia’s greatest fame has come not from his written work, but from the fact that he is one of the most famous state “employees” in the country: he has been in state prison since 1982, serving on death row until just over a year ago.
Born Wesley Cook in Philadelphia, Abu-Jamal made his name as a tireless writer and journalist during the racially-charged 1970s that often portrayed the City of Brotherly Love as anything but. With his intense coverage of the M.O.V.E. organization, a black empowerment group whose ongoing battle with the police and city hall came to a fiery end in 1985, Abu-Jamal became a constant thorn in the side of the city’s powerful establishment. Things came to a sudden head for Abu-Jamal himself on the evening...
Mumia Abu-Jamal has been one of journalism’s most outspoken voices for nearly forty years. However, Mumia’s greatest fame has come not from his written work, but from the fact that he is one of the most famous state “employees” in the country: he has been in state prison since 1982, serving on death row until just over a year ago.
Born Wesley Cook in Philadelphia, Abu-Jamal made his name as a tireless writer and journalist during the racially-charged 1970s that often portrayed the City of Brotherly Love as anything but. With his intense coverage of the M.O.V.E. organization, a black empowerment group whose ongoing battle with the police and city hall came to a fiery end in 1985, Abu-Jamal became a constant thorn in the side of the city’s powerful establishment. Things came to a sudden head for Abu-Jamal himself on the evening...
- 2/24/2013
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
From the press release I received today - in short, Black Panther Party co-founder and Chairman Bobby Seale has launched an IndieGogo campaign to raise $420,000 to begin production of the cinematic life story of the Black Panthers and Seale, which he hopes to see made this year. Titled Seize The Time, The Eighth Defendant, which is also the title of Seale's autobio, a script has already been penned by himself and his partner, Stephen Edwards (a filmmaker and also a former member of the Panthers). Apparently, they'd been shopping around the project as a feature-length doc, but were advised by a exec at Fox Searchlight to make it a scripted, dramatized feature film...
- 1/7/2013
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
After recently, finally following up Little Miss Sunshine with Ruby Sparks, directing duo Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris have settled on their next project: a film about Huey Newton, the quirky co-founder of militant black empowerment and whimsical dance troupe The Black Panthers. Co-written by Jim Hecht—whose work on Ice Age: The Meltdown saw him similarly dabbling in the sort of revolutionary social change and comical chasing of acorns that defined the Black Panther Party—the project, titled The Big Cigar, will be based on his collaborator Joshua Bearman's recent article about the Argo-esque mission undertaken by ...
- 12/13/2012
- avclub.com
Interesting choices here to write and direct this film. First, a recap on a project we first alerted you to in early October, which is now definitely moving ahead. The short story goes... Easy Rider producer Bert Schneider, was a pal and supporter of the Black Panthers, even reportedly giving them $10,000 way back when, to help with the organization's initiatives. It's said that Black Panther leader Huey Newton even became quite close to Schneider, some times staying at Schneider's home for weeks at a time, in the early 1970s. As reports you can find on the web state, in 1974, Newton, on bail for an assault charge, was accused of killing a 17-year-old...
- 12/12/2012
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
Well, it won't be a Huey P. Newton biopic... but still an interesting story I'd watch realized on screen. The short story goes... Easy Rider producer Bert Schneider, was a pal and supporter of the Black Panthers, even reportedly giving them $10,000 way back when, to help with the organization's initiatives. It's said that Black Panther leader Huey Newton even became quite close to Schneider, some times staying at Schneider's home for weeks at a time, in the early 1970s. As reports you can find on the web state, in 1974, Newton, on bail for an assault charge, was accused of killing a 17-year-old prostitute. He jumped bail and hid out with Schneider, who...
- 10/12/2012
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
Based on actual court transcripts from 1968, The Chicago 8 tells the story of the eight anti-war protesters charged with conspiring to cause riots at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. The film will be released on nationwide On-Demand September 4th, 2012. Orlando Jones co-stars in the film as Bobby Seale, co-founder of the Black Panther Party, and one of the original accused "Chicago 8." Gary Cole, Philip Baker Hall, Danny Masterson, Mayim Bialik, Thomas Ian Nicholas, and Steven Culp also star. Historically the trial has also been referred to as the "Chicago Seven," since Seale's trial was eventually severed from the others. Apparently...
- 8/22/2012
- by Jasmin Tiggett
- ShadowAndAct
Happy 80th birthday to Melvin Van Peebles - one of those milestone birthdays, for a man who directed, quite possibly, one of the most polarizing black films ever made, the 1971 film Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, with the intellectual and ideological fissure happening especially across class lines within the black community at the time. And that disunity played out on the public stage, exemplified by Huey P. Newton's devoting an entire issue of The Black Panther to the film's revolutionary implications (He Won't Bleed Me: A Revolutionary Analysis of 'Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song); and then Lerone...
- 8/21/2012
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
Whoa! Talk about an intriguing director pairing. Filmmaker, scholar, distinguished professor at New York University, and director of the Institute of Afro-American Affairs, Manthia Diawara and British-Ghanaian experimental filmmaker John Akomfrah (who I don't think needs much of an intro around here), have teamed up to co-direct a documentary on the life of Kathleen Cleaver - once member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (Sncc), and eventual Spokesperson for the Black Panther Party (the first woman on its central committee), and wife of the party's Minister Of Information, Eldridge Cleaver. The USA/Algeria/France co-production is...
- 7/10/2012
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
Thirty-five years after it vanished, The Black Panther – Ian Merrick's 1977 film about serial killer Donald Neilson – emerges as a gripping and highly responsible true-crime movie
After nearly four decades, Donald Neilson, aka the Black Panther, seems in retrospect like some figment of the phantasmagoric north England of the 1970s, the gothic, occult north of David Peace and the Red Riding trilogy. His crimes – countless burglaries, three murders (of village postmasters), and the kidnapping of teenage heiress Lesley Whittle – took him on meticulously planned nocturnal peregrinations across the north and the Midlands against the unfolding background of the three-day week, the oil crisis, and the Ira's first sustained mainland bombing campaign. (Or, if you prefer, between the decline of glam-rock and the rise of punk.) The dead years, in other words, a leaden age.
Neilson's arrest in December 1975 came just two months after the apprehension of another largely forgotten apparition of the period,...
After nearly four decades, Donald Neilson, aka the Black Panther, seems in retrospect like some figment of the phantasmagoric north England of the 1970s, the gothic, occult north of David Peace and the Red Riding trilogy. His crimes – countless burglaries, three murders (of village postmasters), and the kidnapping of teenage heiress Lesley Whittle – took him on meticulously planned nocturnal peregrinations across the north and the Midlands against the unfolding background of the three-day week, the oil crisis, and the Ira's first sustained mainland bombing campaign. (Or, if you prefer, between the decline of glam-rock and the rise of punk.) The dead years, in other words, a leaden age.
Neilson's arrest in December 1975 came just two months after the apprehension of another largely forgotten apparition of the period,...
- 6/6/2012
- by John Patterson
- The Guardian - Film News
The great photographer, film-maker and iconoclast reflects on a life spent in pursuit of his personal vision
'People were terrified of him, as though it was the lion's den," the Vogue model, Dorothy McGowan, said of working with William Klein back in the 60s. At 84, Klein has mellowed somewhat, though he still tells it like it is. "People ask me why I never went back home to America," he says, when I meet him in his apartment overlooking the Luxembourg Gardens in Paris. "Have you seen those crazy right-wing assholes who want to be president? The place is so reactionary it just makes me angry. If I lived there, you wouldn't be interviewing me, I'd be dead from a heart attack by now."
Wearing patched, faded denim jeans and a baggy jumper, his mane of white hair thinner now, Klein moves slowly and unsteadily around his spacious but cluttered living room,...
'People were terrified of him, as though it was the lion's den," the Vogue model, Dorothy McGowan, said of working with William Klein back in the 60s. At 84, Klein has mellowed somewhat, though he still tells it like it is. "People ask me why I never went back home to America," he says, when I meet him in his apartment overlooking the Luxembourg Gardens in Paris. "Have you seen those crazy right-wing assholes who want to be president? The place is so reactionary it just makes me angry. If I lived there, you wouldn't be interviewing me, I'd be dead from a heart attack by now."
Wearing patched, faded denim jeans and a baggy jumper, his mane of white hair thinner now, Klein moves slowly and unsteadily around his spacious but cluttered living room,...
- 4/28/2012
- by Sean O'Hagan
- The Guardian - Film News
"Mad Men" Season 5 has been chock-full of headline-making events from the year 1966. They've covered the race riots across the country, the Richard Speck murders in Chicago from July 1966, the shootings at the University of Texas at Austin in August 1966 and the height of Rolling Stones mania as they topped the U.S. and U.K. charts. (We're still waiting for a mention of Rita Moreno ... )
And after this week's trippy episode of "Mad Men," we can imagine what Roger Sterling would have to say about the fact that it was in September 1966 that Timothy Leary founded the League of Spiritual Discovery, a religion based on LSD, which was made illegal the following month.
We also know that 1966 was the year that mini-skirts were really in fashion (Zou Bisou Bisou!), color TVs became popular, Jacqueline Susann's first novel "Valley of the Dolls" was published and all cigarette packets in the...
And after this week's trippy episode of "Mad Men," we can imagine what Roger Sterling would have to say about the fact that it was in September 1966 that Timothy Leary founded the League of Spiritual Discovery, a religion based on LSD, which was made illegal the following month.
We also know that 1966 was the year that mini-skirts were really in fashion (Zou Bisou Bisou!), color TVs became popular, Jacqueline Susann's first novel "Valley of the Dolls" was published and all cigarette packets in the...
- 4/27/2012
- by The Huffington Post
- Huffington Post
"Mad Men" Season 5 has been chock-full of headline-making events from the year 1966. They've covered the race riots across the country, the Richard Speck murders in Chicago from July 1966, the shootings at the University of Texas at Austin in August 1966 and the height of Rolling Stones mania as they topped the U.S. and U.K. charts. (We're still waiting for a mention of Rita Moreno ... )
And after this week's trippy episode of "Mad Men," we can imagine what Roger Sterling would have to say about the fact that it was in September 1966 that Timothy Leary founded the League of Spiritual Discovery, a religion based on LSD, which was made illegal the following month.
We also know that 1966 was the year that mini-skirts were really in fashion (Zou Bisou Bisou!), color TVs became popular, Jacqueline Susann's first novel "Valley of the Dolls" was published and all cigarette packets in the...
And after this week's trippy episode of "Mad Men," we can imagine what Roger Sterling would have to say about the fact that it was in September 1966 that Timothy Leary founded the League of Spiritual Discovery, a religion based on LSD, which was made illegal the following month.
We also know that 1966 was the year that mini-skirts were really in fashion (Zou Bisou Bisou!), color TVs became popular, Jacqueline Susann's first novel "Valley of the Dolls" was published and all cigarette packets in the...
- 4/27/2012
- by The Huffington Post
- Aol TV.
Producer of films that expressed the late 60s and early 70s zeitgeist, including Easy Rider, Five Easy Pieces and Hearts and Minds
In the late 60s and early 70s, youth movies identified with the draft-dodging campus rebels disillusioned by their elders and the war in Vietnam. Among the leading lights that embodied the counterculture were the producer Bert Schneider, who has died aged 78, and the director Bob Rafelson. They came together to form Raybert Productions, and then Bbs Productions (with Steve Blauner), which produced several pictures that expressed the zeitgeist, such as Easy Rider (1969), Five Easy Pieces (1970), Drive, He Said (1971) and the Oscar-winning anti-Vietnam war documentary Hearts and Minds (1974).
Schneider was no bandwagon jumper, but a committed leftist, who vigorously opposed the American presence in Vietnam. He was also close to the 1960s political activists Huey Newton, co-founder of the Black Panther party, the African-American radical organisation, and Abbie Hoffman...
In the late 60s and early 70s, youth movies identified with the draft-dodging campus rebels disillusioned by their elders and the war in Vietnam. Among the leading lights that embodied the counterculture were the producer Bert Schneider, who has died aged 78, and the director Bob Rafelson. They came together to form Raybert Productions, and then Bbs Productions (with Steve Blauner), which produced several pictures that expressed the zeitgeist, such as Easy Rider (1969), Five Easy Pieces (1970), Drive, He Said (1971) and the Oscar-winning anti-Vietnam war documentary Hearts and Minds (1974).
Schneider was no bandwagon jumper, but a committed leftist, who vigorously opposed the American presence in Vietnam. He was also close to the 1960s political activists Huey Newton, co-founder of the Black Panther party, the African-American radical organisation, and Abbie Hoffman...
- 12/14/2011
- by Ronald Bergan
- The Guardian - Film News
Interview conducted by Tom Stockman October 19th, 2011
The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 brings together, for 90 fascinating minutes, a treasure trove of 16mm material shot by Swedish journalists who came to the Us drawn by stories of urban unrest and revolution. Gaining access to many of the leaders of the Black Power Movement – Stokely Carmichael, Bobby Seale, Angela Davis and Eldridge Cleaver among them, the filmmakers captured them in intimate moments and remarkably unguarded interviews. Thirty years later, this collection of unedited film was found languishing in the basement of a Swedish Television station. Director Goran Olsson discovered this footage and assembled a documentary chronicling the evolution of one of our nation’s most indelible turning points, the Black Power movement. Featuring music by Questlove and Om’Mas Keith, and commentary from prominent African- American artists and activists who were influenced by the struggle — including Erykah Badu, Harry Belafonte, Talib Kweli,...
The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 brings together, for 90 fascinating minutes, a treasure trove of 16mm material shot by Swedish journalists who came to the Us drawn by stories of urban unrest and revolution. Gaining access to many of the leaders of the Black Power Movement – Stokely Carmichael, Bobby Seale, Angela Davis and Eldridge Cleaver among them, the filmmakers captured them in intimate moments and remarkably unguarded interviews. Thirty years later, this collection of unedited film was found languishing in the basement of a Swedish Television station. Director Goran Olsson discovered this footage and assembled a documentary chronicling the evolution of one of our nation’s most indelible turning points, the Black Power movement. Featuring music by Questlove and Om’Mas Keith, and commentary from prominent African- American artists and activists who were influenced by the struggle — including Erykah Badu, Harry Belafonte, Talib Kweli,...
- 10/25/2011
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Danny Glover's new documentary, The Black Power Mixtape 1967-75, profiles the Black Panthers. 'I'm a child of the civil rights movement,' he says
"I think we have to be really observant as consumers," says Danny Glover. "The people we want to be can be reflected in our cultural art, and we can give value to that. We can do that. It can be entertainment – there's nothing wrong with that – but it can be enlightening as well. There is a choice."
He pauses: "Just look at what kind of films are being produced now, and what the film industry is attempting to do, and it seems like it's reverted back to some kind of past vision of the status quo. Look at the films. You see what movies get made, and what movies don't get made. You see what technology has done, and how they're using it in the...
"I think we have to be really observant as consumers," says Danny Glover. "The people we want to be can be reflected in our cultural art, and we can give value to that. We can do that. It can be entertainment – there's nothing wrong with that – but it can be enlightening as well. There is a choice."
He pauses: "Just look at what kind of films are being produced now, and what the film industry is attempting to do, and it seems like it's reverted back to some kind of past vision of the status quo. Look at the films. You see what movies get made, and what movies don't get made. You see what technology has done, and how they're using it in the...
- 10/7/2011
- by Damon Wise
- The Guardian - Film News
On the run for 40 years, Wright's tale has what it takes for screen success. But such storytelling needs a conscientious approach
If the story of George Wright, the convicted murderer captured this week in Portugal after 40 years on the run, has not yet been optioned by an enterprising producer, then the film industry has really missed a trick. From a cinematic storytelling perspective, this tale has everything. Wright, who had participated in a spree of armed robberies, was imprisoned for the murder of the service station owner Walter Patterson in 1962, only to escape from the Bayside state prison farm in Leesburg, New Jersey, in 1970. Already you've got the heist movie and the prison break-out movie covered. That's a big market: expressed in mathematical terms the potential audience would be (fans of Bonnie and Clyde) + (fans of The Shawshank Redemption). And only a fool would rule out defenders of Buster.
But there's more.
If the story of George Wright, the convicted murderer captured this week in Portugal after 40 years on the run, has not yet been optioned by an enterprising producer, then the film industry has really missed a trick. From a cinematic storytelling perspective, this tale has everything. Wright, who had participated in a spree of armed robberies, was imprisoned for the murder of the service station owner Walter Patterson in 1962, only to escape from the Bayside state prison farm in Leesburg, New Jersey, in 1970. Already you've got the heist movie and the prison break-out movie covered. That's a big market: expressed in mathematical terms the potential audience would be (fans of Bonnie and Clyde) + (fans of The Shawshank Redemption). And only a fool would rule out defenders of Buster.
But there's more.
- 9/28/2011
- by Ryan Gilbey
- The Guardian - Film News
On behalf of Sundance Selects, here is the latest information on Swedish filmmaker Göran Hugo Olsson.s revelatory The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975, co-produced by longtime activist and actor Danny Glover. An irresistible audiovisual collage, the film combines a treasure trove of recently rediscovered footage of the 1967.75 black power movement with penetrating commentary by leading contemporary African-American voices, all set to an evocative soundtrack by Questlove of the Roots and Om.Mas. A Best Editing prize-winner at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 also screened at the New Directors/New Films festival.
At the end of the 1960s, numerous Swedish journalists came to the Us, drawn by stories of urban unrest and revolution. Filming for close to a decade, they gained the trust of many of the leaders of the black power movement.Stokely Carmichael, Bobby Seale, Angela Davis and Eldridge Cleaver among them.capturing them in...
At the end of the 1960s, numerous Swedish journalists came to the Us, drawn by stories of urban unrest and revolution. Filming for close to a decade, they gained the trust of many of the leaders of the black power movement.Stokely Carmichael, Bobby Seale, Angela Davis and Eldridge Cleaver among them.capturing them in...
- 8/17/2011
- by Melissa Howland
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
They are the shock troops in the city's battle against endemic street violence – peacemakers who once lived by the gun. As a documentary on their work reaches cinemas, we visit Chicago to see the campaigners in action
On the stoop of a house on a dilapidated block in Englewood, the south side Chicago neighbourhood that tops the city's statistics for murder, drug addiction, teen pregnancy and most of other indices of social dysfunction, are eight young African-American men and two or three women. It's an oven-hot summer afternoon and the group is kicking back, drinking, shouting and laughing.
"I don't like crowd scenes," says Shango, a member of the city's anti-violence project, CeaseFire, as we pull up outside. He explains that such gatherings increase the chances of becoming a victim of a drive-by shooting.
The street we're in stands in the middle of a few blocks that have seen three murders in recent days,...
On the stoop of a house on a dilapidated block in Englewood, the south side Chicago neighbourhood that tops the city's statistics for murder, drug addiction, teen pregnancy and most of other indices of social dysfunction, are eight young African-American men and two or three women. It's an oven-hot summer afternoon and the group is kicking back, drinking, shouting and laughing.
"I don't like crowd scenes," says Shango, a member of the city's anti-violence project, CeaseFire, as we pull up outside. He explains that such gatherings increase the chances of becoming a victim of a drive-by shooting.
The street we're in stands in the middle of a few blocks that have seen three murders in recent days,...
- 8/8/2011
- by Andrew Anthony
- The Guardian - Film News
We had a couple of days where mid-level casting for a lot of projects was going crazy. Maybe there was something in the air; maybe casting directors and agents just all got together and had a field day. It's been a bit slower today, but still there are a couple of items to catch up on. After the break, you'll find info on how: Robin Williams appears to be cast in Gently Down the Stream, with Robert De Niro and Susan Sarandon. Joel David Moore (Avatar) will be in Oliver Stone's Savages. and Katie Cassidy takes the lead in Freaky Deaky. The wedding comedy Gently Down the Stream has had [1] Robert De Niro, Diane Keaton, Katherine Heigl, Topher Grace, Susan Sarandon and Amanda Seyfried cast for some time. Now Roger Friedman [2] relates that Amanda Seyfried says that Robin Williams is in the cast, too. The Bucket List writer Justin Zackham...
- 6/24/2011
- by Russ Fischer
- Slash Film
If writer/director Charles Matthau was looking to get everyone's attention for his upcoming adaptation of the Elmore Leonard novel Freaky Deaky, mission accomplished. A few months back, he got a good start by casting [1] William H. Macy in a major role and today he upped the ante by getting Matt Dillon, Brendan Fraser and Craig Robinson to join the film about a couple of former hippies who use bomb making skills to extort millions of dollars. Dillon plays an Lapd office who becomes wise to the scam, Fraser is one of the hippies, Macy is the millionaire mark and Robinson is his former Black Panther assistant. Variety exclusively [2] broke the news of this casting which will come to fruition later this month in Detroit when filming begins. Filmmakers such as Quentin Tarantino, John Malkovich and Richard Brooks have owned the rights to the book in the past but apparently had issues in the adaptation.
- 6/3/2011
- by Germain Lussier
- Slash Film
Early '80's and a call to ask if I would want to meet with Eldridge Cleaver, former Black Panther and author of the seminal "Soul on Ice," a memoir of a a radical black militant in prison. As a good liberal, I had read Cleaver's book and never believed he would be alive and well (and free) to meet with a William Morris agent. But now I saw "Ice" as a four-hour miniseries for CBS and called Dennis Doty, who was handling the network for packaging. "You want to go to lunch with Eldridge Cleaver?" He, too, envisioned...
- 5/2/2011
- The Wrap
Possibly one of the most polarizing black films ever made… Melvin Van Peebles 1971 film Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song, with the intellectual and ideological fissure happening especially across class lines within the black community specifically. And that disunity played out on the public stage, exemplified by Huey P. Newton’s devoting an entire issue of The Black Panther to the film’s revolutionary implications (He Won’t Bleed Me: A Revolutionary Analysis of ‘Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song), and Lerone Bennet’s scathing take-down of the film in the September 1971 issue of what Ed Guerrero called the then “principal organ of the black bourgeoisie,” Ebony magazine, titled The Emancipation Orgasm: Sweetback In Wonderland. I wanted to post both pieces here, but I couldn’t locate Newton’s online (if anyone can, let me know). I did find Bennet’s Ebony critique, which isn’t solely a lambasting of Van Peebles’ film,...
- 3/13/2011
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
Sundance Selects acquired North American rights to Goran Hugo Olsson's The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975, the documentary that premiered at 2011 Sundance Film Festival. The film also screened at the Berlin Festival this week. Film chonicles footage taken by Swedish journalists focusing on the Black Power and Black Panther movements in the Us. The journos took footage of everyone from Stokely Carmichael, Bobby Seale, Huey P. Newton, Angela Davis to Eldridge Cleaver. The 16 mm footage sat in a basement for 30 years. The film's produced by Story Ab's Annika Rogell, and co-produced by Joslyn Barnes and Danny Glover of Louverture Films and Sveriges Television. Arianna Bacco negotiated the deal for Sundance Selects/IFC with Cinetic Media.
- 2/14/2011
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
In 1990, shortly after The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover was refused an R rating by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), Harvey Weinstein of Miramax Films found himself confronted with the exact same dilemma. The film in question this time was Pedro Almodovar’s Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!.
The film, starring a young, thin Antonio Banderas, is completely different from The Cook, with no extreme violence to speak of, and certainly no cannibalism. Any scandalous material in the film can be boiled down to two scenes. One scene involves Marina, played by Victoria Abril, taking a bath. During the bath, she winds up a sex toy which, hilariously, is a little scuba diver attached to a kind of missile. When Marina lets him go in the water, he kicks his flippered feet, launching himself and the missile at a pitiful pace towards her open legs.
The film, starring a young, thin Antonio Banderas, is completely different from The Cook, with no extreme violence to speak of, and certainly no cannibalism. Any scandalous material in the film can be boiled down to two scenes. One scene involves Marina, played by Victoria Abril, taking a bath. During the bath, she winds up a sex toy which, hilariously, is a little scuba diver attached to a kind of missile. When Marina lets him go in the water, he kicks his flippered feet, launching himself and the missile at a pitiful pace towards her open legs.
- 1/13/2011
- by Alice gray
- SoundOnSight
During the 1968 Democratic National Convention in late August, various rallies and demonstrations took place in protest of President Lyndon B Johnson’s policies for the Vietnam War. One particular rally, The Grant Park rally, was attended by thousands of protesters and after it was over some attempted to march to the International Amphitheater—where the convention was being held—but were stopped by police.
This marked the beginning of physical confrontations between protesters and the police for five days. Hundreds of police officers as well as protesters were injured.
As a result, eight protesters were charged with various crimes, including conspiracy to incite a riot. The eight–David Dellinger, Rennie Davis, Tom Hayden, Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Bobby Seale, John Froines and Lee Weiner–were reduced to seven when Seale was severed from the case and sentenced to four years for contempt of court. The trial lasted for months and...
This marked the beginning of physical confrontations between protesters and the police for five days. Hundreds of police officers as well as protesters were injured.
As a result, eight protesters were charged with various crimes, including conspiracy to incite a riot. The eight–David Dellinger, Rennie Davis, Tom Hayden, Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Bobby Seale, John Froines and Lee Weiner–were reduced to seven when Seale was severed from the case and sentenced to four years for contempt of court. The trial lasted for months and...
- 11/29/2010
- by Cynthia
- ShadowAndAct
Recently arrested Wiz raps about 'fast living, good weed, bad women' on track featuring Curren$y.
By Steven Roberts
Wiz Khalifa
Photo: Rostrum Records
Getting arrested on Monday after police seized marijuana from his tour bus hasn't slowed down Wiz Khalifa. The Pittsburgh Mc, who was released on Tuesday, was soon back to business as usual. Tweeting his signature "waken ... baken" tweet, he thanked fans for their love and support and joked that his wrist still hurt.
The same day of his release, Wiz teased his Taylor Gang that he would release a song with his "broseph," Curren$y. He finally rewarded fans on Wednesday afternoon (November 10), dropping a new song, "Huey Newton," via his Twitter page.
It's unclear whether the song was recorded before or after his release, as the track makes no overt mention of the Mc's recent arrest, but Wiz does make familiar references to his favorite everyday activities.
By Steven Roberts
Wiz Khalifa
Photo: Rostrum Records
Getting arrested on Monday after police seized marijuana from his tour bus hasn't slowed down Wiz Khalifa. The Pittsburgh Mc, who was released on Tuesday, was soon back to business as usual. Tweeting his signature "waken ... baken" tweet, he thanked fans for their love and support and joked that his wrist still hurt.
The same day of his release, Wiz teased his Taylor Gang that he would release a song with his "broseph," Curren$y. He finally rewarded fans on Wednesday afternoon (November 10), dropping a new song, "Huey Newton," via his Twitter page.
It's unclear whether the song was recorded before or after his release, as the track makes no overt mention of the Mc's recent arrest, but Wiz does make familiar references to his favorite everyday activities.
- 11/10/2010
- MTV Music News
What do the films Get Shorty, Out of Sight, Jackie Brown, Be Cool, The Big Bounce and Killshot all have in common? Well I'll tell you - they have all been adapted from books written by Elmore Leonard... and now there's another to add to the list, as Walter Matthau's son Charles Matthau (Her Minor Thing) is writing and directing an adaptation of Freaky Deaky, and William H. Macy (Fargo) is attached to star.
It's not clear yet which role in the crime thriller Macy will take on, but a synopsis of the book goes as follows: Leonard starts and ends his latest page turner with a bang, and between explosions we meet a vivid group of characters who are mainly veterans of the youth rebellion of the 1960s. Chief among them are Chris Mankowski, 38-year-old Detroit police sergeant, newly transferred from the bomb squad to sex crimes; Woody Ricks,...
It's not clear yet which role in the crime thriller Macy will take on, but a synopsis of the book goes as follows: Leonard starts and ends his latest page turner with a bang, and between explosions we meet a vivid group of characters who are mainly veterans of the youth rebellion of the 1960s. Chief among them are Chris Mankowski, 38-year-old Detroit police sergeant, newly transferred from the bomb squad to sex crimes; Woody Ricks,...
- 9/14/2010
- Screenrush
Also screening at Bam Cinematek (see Hey New York #1 just below this post) is a 75-minute 1969 documentary on leading member of the Black Panther Party Eldridge Cleaver, titled Eldridge Cleaver. It’s part of the BAMcinématek Contraband Cinema screening series. I like the title.
The film screens tomorrow, Wednesday, June 30 at 4:30pm, and again on Sunday, July 4, which will be followed by a Q&A with his widow, Kathleen Cleaver.
Synopsis: Under pressure from FBI’s counterintelligence program, Black Panther Eldridge Cleaver and his wife Kathleen left the United States for Algeria. There, he set up the International Section of the Black Panther Party which quickly became the hangout of revolutionaries from the Vietnamese and African liberation movements. Director Klein’s moving interview follows up with Cleaver during the Pan-African Cultural Festival in Algiers, where he expounds upon the Vietnam War and Black Power during a time when “revolution...
The film screens tomorrow, Wednesday, June 30 at 4:30pm, and again on Sunday, July 4, which will be followed by a Q&A with his widow, Kathleen Cleaver.
Synopsis: Under pressure from FBI’s counterintelligence program, Black Panther Eldridge Cleaver and his wife Kathleen left the United States for Algeria. There, he set up the International Section of the Black Panther Party which quickly became the hangout of revolutionaries from the Vietnamese and African liberation movements. Director Klein’s moving interview follows up with Cleaver during the Pan-African Cultural Festival in Algiers, where he expounds upon the Vietnam War and Black Power during a time when “revolution...
- 6/29/2010
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
Dennis Hopper: actor, artist, filmmaker, Hollywood survivor.
Just days after remembering the loss of Sydney Pollack two years ago, we awaken to mourn the loss of another Hollywood icon, Dennis Hopper, less than two weeks after his 74th birthday. Hopper had been on my short list of "dream interviews" during my tenure at Venice Magazine. When I was lucky enough to finally sit down with him in November of 2008, I was thrilled, and didn't know quite what to expect.
What I found while smoking cigars with Hopper in his Venice home-studio, was a thoughtful man with a gentle demeanor, who spoke in measured tones and loved telling stories. Gone was the wild-eyed "enfant terrible" that Hopper had made his name playing, and sometimes living. What I saw instead was a man who seemed to be at peace with himself and his life, who loved his children, art, film and new ideas.
Just days after remembering the loss of Sydney Pollack two years ago, we awaken to mourn the loss of another Hollywood icon, Dennis Hopper, less than two weeks after his 74th birthday. Hopper had been on my short list of "dream interviews" during my tenure at Venice Magazine. When I was lucky enough to finally sit down with him in November of 2008, I was thrilled, and didn't know quite what to expect.
What I found while smoking cigars with Hopper in his Venice home-studio, was a thoughtful man with a gentle demeanor, who spoke in measured tones and loved telling stories. Gone was the wild-eyed "enfant terrible" that Hopper had made his name playing, and sometimes living. What I saw instead was a man who seemed to be at peace with himself and his life, who loved his children, art, film and new ideas.
- 6/1/2010
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
Berlin -- Move over, Pink Panther. Here come the Black Panthers.
Two English-language European film projects aim to bring leading figures from the U.S. Black Power movement to the big screen soon.
Franco-Algerian producer-writer-director Rachid Bouchareb, whose film "London River" screens here in competition, is setting up a movie on the early life of Angela Davis, a leading figure of the civil rights movement and one-time FBI renegade.
Meanwhile, Berlin-based Egoli Tossell films, whose latest picture, "Hilde," screens here as a Berlinale Special Gala, is in preproduction on a feature film based on Black Panther co-founder Bobby Seale.
Davis, who once studied here at Berlin's Humboldt University, became a cause celebre in the late 1960s when she was sacked from her post as philosophy professor at UCLA for being a communist. She later found herself on the FBI's "10 most wanted" list after guns used in a...
Two English-language European film projects aim to bring leading figures from the U.S. Black Power movement to the big screen soon.
Franco-Algerian producer-writer-director Rachid Bouchareb, whose film "London River" screens here in competition, is setting up a movie on the early life of Angela Davis, a leading figure of the civil rights movement and one-time FBI renegade.
Meanwhile, Berlin-based Egoli Tossell films, whose latest picture, "Hilde," screens here as a Berlinale Special Gala, is in preproduction on a feature film based on Black Panther co-founder Bobby Seale.
Davis, who once studied here at Berlin's Humboldt University, became a cause celebre in the late 1960s when she was sacked from her post as philosophy professor at UCLA for being a communist. She later found herself on the FBI's "10 most wanted" list after guns used in a...
- 2/5/2009
- by By Charles Masters and Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
- Director Brett Morgen (The Kid Stays in the Picture) is a fast and voracious talker - he didn’t allow for many questions to be asked by the fellow journalists who met him last Monday in New York during promotion of his Sundance opener, Chicago 10. He seems to be preoccupied with sending out the right message about his latest project, a special documentary that mixes original animation and archival footage to explore the build-up of the Chicago Conspiracy Trial, its consequences and its lessons. He wants to make sure that nobody mistakes it for one of those 'too often boring' and 'very serious historical documentaries that play on PBS' because his movie, he says, is meant to be entertaining, although he hopes young people can learn some lessons about what to do with their political lives today.Eight activists were put on trial by the government after the
- 2/29/2008
- IONCINEMA.com
- It was the opening doc at Sundance, and got a very mix reaction – the word was “too long”. The folks at Roadside Attractions see enough promise in Brett Morgen’s docu-feature and have picked up the distrib rights for a 2008 release. The issue of the runtime will be addressed as they plan to trim Chicago 10 to an appropriate length. The doc explores the build-up and aftermath of the week-long anti-war demonstrations staged during the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, during which protesters clashed with the Chicago Police Department and the National Guard. Following the protest, eight of the most vocal activists were held accountable for the violence and brought to trial in 1969. The defendants represented a broad cross-section of the anti-war movement, from counter-culture icons Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin to renowned pacifist David Dellinger. Seven of the defendants were represented by Leonard Weinglass and famed liberal attorney,
- 5/28/2007
- IONCINEMA.com
- Quick Links Chicago 10 Brett Morgen The Kid Stays in the Picture ioncinema.com's Sundance 2007 coverage The upcoming edition of the Sundance Film Festival will open with a documentary film from the filmmaker who wowed audiences with the visually engaging, critically acclaimed The Kid Stays in the Picture. This will be the third visit for Brett Morgen, who also showcased the Robert Evans docu biopic and the 1999 Sundance Film Festival On the Ropes. Written and directed by Morgen, Chicago 10 is an innovative documentary that combines historical storytelling, archival footage, interviews, animation and music to tell the story about the 1968 anti-war protests around the Democratic National Convention in Chicago that resulted in the famous Chicago Conspiracy Trial in 1969. Chicago 10 explores the build-up and aftermath of the week-long anti-war demonstrations staged during the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, during which protesters clashed with the Chicago Police Department and the National Guard.
- 11/16/2006
- IONCINEMA.com
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