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Barney Rosset, Jr King of smut
by The Critiquer also Ringfan (movies profile)
Oct 7, 2008
I find anything that shakes up complacency is great. Barnet Lee Rosset, Jr was just such an individual. He's responsible for replublishing banned books, and felt that every novel regardless of content must be published. In a documentary, you cannot rate acting, these are real people here. We find out who Barney Rosset was from his childhood on and how he met controversial cinematographer Haskell Wexler and how he accidentally obtained Grove Press. This is how the doc about Hunter S Thompson earlier this summer should have been, informative. He published Beckett, Miller, Burroughs, and even the Marquis De Sade and fell into filmmaking himself when releasing a controversial Swedish film in the 70's. If you want something interesting to see about something you probably didn't know about, then seek this slick doc out, |
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