Word: filming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WNYC, the New York station that at first had agreed to sponsor it, has now decided not to air it. And although another station has promised to show the documentary sometime in the fall, that will be nearly a year after the film's completion...
Chloe Aaron, the WNYC executive who decided to drop the program, condemns the film because it "makes no mention of how the Jews got to Israel, no mention of the Holocaust, no mention of how the Palestinians treated the Jews nor how Arabs treated the Palestinians." But Trout is not responsible for reporting what happened in the past here; she is just documenting a side of the present situation...
Aaron is throwing the intricacies of this political conflict into what is simply an expression of free speech. She calls the film a "pure propaganda piece that I'd compare to Leni Riedfenstahl's `Triumph of the Will,'" a 1930's film that attempts to glorify Adolf Hitler...
...Herman and George Lucas? Features an earthquake, a shipwreck, a giant bee, several gunfights and a zillion other acts of harmless mayhem? Cost about $500 million to produce -- as much as ten whole Ishtars? And, with gobs of charm, sly wit and relentless good cheer, brings off the film magician's trick of making make-believe believable...
After rain forced the participants to move the proceedings indoors, the Hillel sponsored a showing of the film Night and Fog, a documentary describing what Allied soldiers found when they entered the concentration camp Auschwitz, Savett said...