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.
On today’s Leonard Lopate At Large, Leonard has a conversation with Edwin Frank, founder of New York Review Books Back In 1999, Edwin Frank...
On today’s Leonard Lopate at Large, Dr. Wright along with series creator Christine Arena joins Leonard for a discussion of why science matters. The...
Today, Leonard has a conversation with Monona Rossol, chemist, artist, and industrial hygienist, and the founder and of Arts, Crafts and Theater Safety, Inc.,...