tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7610074516299275060.post8735702576950073767..comments2024-01-21T11:18:54.087-05:00Comments on Lost in the Movies: Son of ManJoel Bockohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11238338958380683893noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7610074516299275060.post-2466542347734494562014-04-23T12:00:46.088-04:002014-04-23T12:00:46.088-04:00Indeed, she sounds more like a parody than a real ...Indeed, she sounds more like a parody than a real human being - like Dana Carvey's character on SNL or something.Joel Bockohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11238338958380683893noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7610074516299275060.post-37028934430770724802014-04-20T17:08:56.530-04:002014-04-20T17:08:56.530-04:00Mary Whitehouse does indeed engage in a spectacula...Mary Whitehouse does indeed engage in a spectacular "fail" there--give the magnitude of such war crimes, and her idiotic "off-putting" remarks. Reminding viewers of the mass murder of 50 million+ people in a war started by a toxic regime in the middle of "modern" Europe (Berlin) is not "off putting". It is essential! Doug's Bloghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09219952832674415239noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7610074516299275060.post-52044522807915161472014-04-17T19:11:56.532-04:002014-04-17T19:11:56.532-04:00I've heard mixed things about its reception in...I've heard mixed things about its reception in Britain - that it was very controversial and that it was (perhaps surprisingly) not. The only concrete complaint I've heard comes from the censorious Mary Whitehouse and, well, let me turn to Allison Pearson in the Guardian by way of characterizing Whitehouses anti-obscenity crusades...<br /><br />"Isaacs, a former Panorama editor, recalled the letter he got from Whitehouse after he repeated Richard Dimbleby's great report from Belsen. It was disgraceful, she wrote, that this 'filth' had been allowed on screen. 'It was bound to shock and offend.' Indeed it was: all those Jews dead and not a stitch on. The older Whitehouse, eyes still beady behind wild-swan specs, was asked to explain herself: 'I think it's an awful intrusion. And it's very off-putting.' All words fail to describe the Holocaust, but few have failed quite so spectacularly as 'off-putting'."Joel Bockohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11238338958380683893noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7610074516299275060.post-6599216217609818592014-04-17T17:05:44.657-04:002014-04-17T17:05:44.657-04:00Looks like the sort of provocative play-writing th...Looks like the sort of provocative play-writing that one would not have seen on US television at the time. Thanks for the review Joel. Doug's Bloghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09219952832674415239noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7610074516299275060.post-22727629146434257692014-04-16T11:48:27.784-04:002014-04-16T11:48:27.784-04:00Haha, glad I lured you in! Now I'll have to se...Haha, glad I lured you in! Now I'll have to see Return of the Ape Man...Joel Bockohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11238338958380683893noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7610074516299275060.post-2932813180847062642014-04-14T13:40:19.020-04:002014-04-14T13:40:19.020-04:00Nice work, Joel! I saw the top pic and thought it ...Nice work, Joel! I saw the top pic and thought it was RETURN OF THE APE MAN starring Bela Lugosi and John Carradine. that I kept reading to the end even after learning it wasn't, that's testimony to your strong critical flow and acumen.Erich Kuerstenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02850572368098319317noreply@blogger.com