I couldn't agree more. The story was covered on NPR.
With all the venom being spewed over screenings of
Birth of a Nation, Charlie Chan, and Passion of the
Christ, I wonder how much more censorship will be
coming.
We've come a long way. I think that people just need
to accept the fact that one can watch a movie like
this and not get wrapped up in bigotry. We can watch
this movie and see how petty people were.
Bigots are bigots no matter what damn movie they see.
Toochis
(Native-american, Hispanic, and Irish)
--- David Stephan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yes, it's true. I was really considering going to
> the Silent Movie Theatre for the first time and I'm
> very disappointed that this kind of censorship has
> succeeded. I've never seen the film but from the
> clips I've seen there is no way that a reasonable
> person could take the racism in the film seriously.
> But as a student of film I was curious to see it as
> a relic of historic cinema.
>
> Dave
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: posterdoctor
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 9:19 PM
> Subject: [MOPO] Question on LA film showing-Birth
> Of A Nation
>
>
> I was sent the following information about a
> cancelled LA showing of Birth Of A Nation. Can
> anyone confirm that this is a true story?
>
> Thanks, Danny / Seattle
>
>
> The owner of the Silent Movie Theater in Hollywood
> canceled a planned
> screening of D. W. Griffith's The
> Birth of a Nation after the Los
> Angeles branch of the NAACP and a group called the
> National Alliance for
> Positive Action vowed to picket the theater.
> Although owner Charlie Lustman
> had planned to show the film with a disclaimer
> stating that he does not
> endorse the racist content of the film but wants
> to honor its place in
> cinema history, the two groups had charged that
> the film would continue to
> poison race relations. Lustman said that he had
> also received threatening
> phone calls and was concerned about the safety of
> patrons and 92-year-old
> Bob Mitchell, the onetime leader of the famed
> Mitchell Boys Choir, who was
> to provide organ music to accompany the film.
>
>
>
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