Town Bloody Hall

Town Bloody Hall
dir. Donn Alan Pennebaker, Chris Hegedus/USA/1979/82 min.
place
date
time
Kinoteka, sala 7
2022-05-17
16:00
Kinoteka, sala 1
2022-05-22
14:00

On the evening of April 30, 1971, a standing room only audience of local literati and feminists packed New York City’s Town Hall to watch Norman Mailer, who had just written “The Prisoner of Sex,” grapple with a panel of passionate feminists. The subject was women’s liberation, an issue on which Mailer seemed like the devil’s advocate. To test him was a fearsome panel of feminist representatives, among them journalist and lesbian spokeswoman Jill Johnston, legendary literary critic Diana Trilling, president of The National Organization of Women - Jacqueline Ceballos, and possibly his toughest match - the glamorous and razor-tongued author of “The Female Eunuch”, Germaine Greer.

On the streets it was simply Mailer versus Greer in a knockdown debate on women’s liberation. The event, produced by Shirley Broughton and her ongoing Theater For Ideas, turned into true theater for the celebrity-stuffed audience, who vigorously offered opinions and roared their approval and disdain throughout the raucous affair. It remained the most stimulating and entertaining action to date in the continuing comedy/drama of the war between the sexes and is reverently referred to by writers on the subject.

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  • projection time:
    82 min.
  • country/year:
    USA /1979
  • director:
    Donn Alan Pennebaker, Chris Hegedus
  • pictures:
    Jim Desmond, Donn Alan Pennebaker, Mark Woodcock
  • production:
    Shirley Broughton, Edith Van Slyck / Pennebaker Hegedus Films, Inc.
  • festivals and awards:
    2021 – Jihlava IFF

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