prabhaka@ucbvax.UUCP (Aloke Prabhakar) (06/08/84)
<odedoh> "Seveneteen" played to a sold-out crowd the the Pacific Film Archive here in Berkeley about 2 months ago. They said then that it would show again sometime in July. (I got there 45 minutes before it started and wasnt able to get in. This is partially due to the fact that it got a four page (good) review in a local paper.) I talked to someone who did see it who said that it was extremely well done. Aloke ...ucbvax!prabhaka prabhaka@ucbarpa.ARPA
sleat@aat.UUCP (06/11/84)
(Whew! Hope my 'n' key survived all that Star Trash. Can't net.movies.sw
be recycled into net.movies.st? How about leaving it as .sw for
"StarWhatever". Oh well, I didn't really want to start another "new groups"
forest fire. Forget I said anything.)
I saw "Seventeen" at the Ann Arbor 16mm Festival earlier this year. I
thought it was quite well done. Having spent a little time in the wilds
of Indiana, it seemed to me that it rang true. I suspect that one reason
it was not aired on PBS is simply that, although it is quite "liberal" not
to take offense at the occasional "shit", those responsible just couldn't
quite see being held accountable by the genteel viewers of PBS for an hour
of the constant stream of epithets that makes up Standard Highschool English.
In general, I think it was just a little too honest for their tastes.
Michael Sleator
Ann Arbor Terminals
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