Today on Leonard Lopate at Large, Bret Wood, of the film distribution company Kino Lobber, talks about curating a new series at Film Forum celebrating an absurd movement in film history entitled “Forbidden Fruit: The Golden Age of the Exploitation Picture.”
In the years when Hollywood was under the tight control of the Production Code Authority, a new breed of movie mercenary-impresario brazenly broke every rule on depicting taboo subjects (primarily sex, drugs and childbirth) in films produced under the auspices of being morally uplifting.
More carny showmen than movie moguls, wily entrepreneurs like Kroger Babb and Dwain Esper exhibited these films “roadshow” style, with garish lobby displays, live lectures and souvenirs.
Actress and filmmaker Nora Armani founded The SR Socially Relevant™ Film Festival New York in 2013 in response to the amount of violent stories...
Today Leonard interviews Maxine Rosaler, Author: Queen for a Day.” The reader knows by page one of “Queen for a Day” that Mimi Slavitt’s...
Today Leonard has a conversation with George Pakenham on the dangers of idling vehicles. Idling engines consume more than 6 billion gallons of gasoline...