Make your travel plans now for Brooklyn, boys and girls:davidhare wrote:Where can we get our hands on it? This hasn't been around since I was a teenager (well, almost.)
BAMCINEMATEK SPECIAL SERIES
Cinemachat with Elliott Stein, June 14
Film critic and historian Elliott Stein curates this film and discussion series.
Mandingo (1975) 127min
Jun 14 at 7:30pm*
*Cinemachat with Elliott Stein
Directed by Richard Fleischer
With James Mason
This controversial screen version of Kyle Onstott's notorious best-seller about the sins of the pre-Civil War South has been called "something like Uncle Tom's Cabin rewritten for Playboy magazine." On the other hand, critic David Pirie believed that "Fleischer utilizes the real sexuality and violence behind slavery to mount a compelling slice of American Gothic." Andy Warhol hailed it as "My favorite bad movie of the year." Whatever you think of Mandingo, you won't be bored. Cinemachat with Elliott Stein follows the screening.