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Authors :
SALTZ, JERRY
EBIRI, BILGE
JENKINS, CRAIG
CHANEY, JEN
DAVIDSON, JUSTIN
SHAW, HELEN
WILLMORE, ALISON
Source :
New York. 6/22/2020, Vol. 53 Issue 13, p74-76. 3p.
Publication Year :
2020

Abstract

David France, director of the seminal AIDS docHow to Survive a Plague, returns with anotherinfuriating and devastating film. In looking at thehorrific, government-approved brutalization ofLGBTQ people in Chechnya--where they areimprisoned, tortured, and killed--and the clandestinenetworks created to help persecuted peopleflee to safety, he delivers a movie that is both shockingand, in its own way, hopeful. J.C. MOVIES 24. In the early '70s, director Peter Medak wasapproached by his friend Peter Sellers to makepirate comedy Ghost in the Noonday Sun. Whatensued was one of the most catastrophic shootsever, as the unpredictable Sellers nearly broughtdown the production and alienated cast and crewalike. [Extracted from the article]

Subjects

Subjects :
*ART
*POPULAR music

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
00287369
Volume :
53
Issue :
13
Database :
Academic Search Index
Journal :
New York
Publication Type :
Periodical
Accession number :
148048204