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Wednesday, August 19, 2020

DVD & Blu-ray: TOWN BLOODY HALL (1979) - Documentary

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Product Description: On April 30, 1971, a standing-room-only crowd of New York’s intellectual elite packed the city’s Town Hall theater to see Norman Mailer—fresh from the controversy over his essay “The Prisoner of Sex” and the backlash it received from leaders of the women’s movement—tangle with a panel of four prominent female thinkers and activists: Jacqueline Ceballos, Germaine Greer, Jill Johnston, and Diana Trilling.

Part intellectual death match, part three-ring circus, the proceedings were captured with crackling, fly-on-the-wall immediacy by the documentary great D. A. Pennebaker and a small crew, with Chris Hegedus later condensing the three-and-a-half-hour affair into this briskly entertaining snapshot of a singular cultural moment.

Heady, heated, and hilarious, Town Bloody Hall is a dazzling display of feminist firepower courtesy of some of the most influential figures of the era, with Mailer plainly relishing his role as the pugnacious rabble-rouser and literary lion at the center of it all.

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Director: D.A. Pennebaker, Chris Hegedus

Starring: Norman Mailer, Germaine Greer, Jill Johnston

Genre: Documentary

Runtime: 85 min

Rating: Not Rated

Language: English

Studio: Criterion Collection

Home Video Release Date: August 18, 2020




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  • Codec: MPEG-2
  • Resolution: 480i
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
  • Encoding Format: 16:9
  • Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only)
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  • Codec: MPEG-4 AVC
  • Resolution: 1080p
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
  • Region: Region A/1

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  • DVD: Dolby Digital Mono
  • Blu-ray: LPCM Mono


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DVD: English SDH

Blu-ray: English SDH



SPECIAL FEATURES & EXTRAS

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  • New interview with Hegedus
  • Audio commentary from 2004 featuring Hegedus and author Germaine Greer
  • Footage from a 2004 celebration of the film, which brought together participants Greer, Jacqueline Ceballos, and Jill Johnston and directors Hegedus and D. A. Pennebaker
  • Appearance from 1971 on The Dick Cavett Show by author Norman Mailer, promoting his book The Prisoner of Sex
  • Archival interviews with Greer and Mailer
  • PLUS: An essay by film critic Melissa Anderson


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