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Release Date: 17 February, 2004 Retail Price: $24.96 OUR Price: $8.47 You SAVE: $16.49! Cast: Complete Cast (6 total) |
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WHEN WOODY DOESN'T DIRECT HIMSELF: AN IMPORTANT FILM FOR OUR AGE OF GOODNIGHT AND GOOD LUCK
It is a joy to watch Woody free of directorial and writing tasks and just presenting a great part within an equally talented ensemble. Seeing him struggle to play second banana to the great Zero Mostel is to watch him take a back seat and get out of the way. Herschel Bernardi is also wonderful as a divided company man who wants to keep his job and his ideals under pressure.
This story would be no more popular today than the Dixie Chix. It recounts the rather amateur effort of the right wing in the fifties to take over our culture and our entertainment industries by throwing out anyone who might have marched leading with the left foot. In our current paranoid Patriot ACT age in which media monoploy by far right wingers like Rupert Murdoch assures we hear and view only a tiny slover of their "approved" perspective and that any other concept never reaches braodcast or film, and in which other perspectives and points of view wouldbe incomprehensible to the viewing public, this right wing Freedom Information agency looks like fools. Tight butt fools, but incompetent fools.
This movie is wonderful and poignant and telling from beginning to end. Supplement it with Good night and good luck as well as the Cradle will rock. And then go watch ANYTHING other than USA and British monopolistic media to see there are whole other worlds of worldviews to consider carefully.
Here we go again?
I saw this film when it was released in 1976 and have not seen it since. It affected me profoundly as I remembered coming home from school for lunch as a teenager and hearing the HUAC hearings on the radio. At the time of the release of "The Front", it was my understanding that everyone associated with the film had been blacklisted except for Woody Allen. A few months ago while visiting friends and discussing the proposed renewal of the Patriot Act, I expressed my disdain at this situation. My friend replied, "If you don't have anything to hide, why do you care what someone asks or investigates about you?" I replied that I DID CARE very much and my reasons would take a lengthy explanation but would be best illustrated by a series of films and books starting with "The Front". I would recommend to anyone with the slightest interest in this subject to start with this film, then read "Naming Names", see "Guilty by Suspicion", "The Way We Were", and "Good Night and Good Luck". All of these works are powerful, important, informative, and are also entertaining.
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