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Memberships, Awards, Fellowships, Honors, and Associations:
New York Foundation for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, Association of Independent Filmmakers & Video Artists, Fellow of the National Science Foundation, winner of the Nagasaki Mayor's Prize for Peace (additional references upon request)
Reviews
Timeline (2003)
A piece of tripe
A piece of tripe from start to end.
The science is tripe.
The history is tripe.
The acting is tripe.
The screenplay is tripe.
And most of all, the direction is tripe.
I was immensely disappointed by this film.
I'm a Billy Connolly fan, a time-travel fan, a history-buff, and a filmmaker. Not one of these four elements were addressed with any passable degree of success. In fact, this movie failed on every possible level (save the pleasing-- though by no means exceptional --cinematography).
Point of Order! (1964)
Excellent introduction to Roy Cohn, Joe McCarthy, and McCarthyism.
Roy Cohn keeps popping up in American culture, from his fictionalized roles in "ANGELS IN America"-- as interpreted by Al Pacino (actor), Tony Kushner (playwrite), and Mike Nichols (director) --and Kurt Vonnegut's "JAILBIRD," to his actual deeds as documented by the likes of Emile de Antonio here in "POINT OF ORDER." Although there have been some attempts to put Cohn in perspective-- Frank Pierson's awful HBO film, "CITIZEN COHN," comes to mind (with James Woods' cartoon performance), I believe we've yet to see anything approaching a definitive look at him and his legacy.
As for McCarthy and McCarthyism, "POINT OF ORDER" stands as an excellent non-fiction introduction to the beginning of their ends. It's great drama, and it's full of truth. And that is all. "POINT OF ORDER" is where one can start, yet not where one may find real answers.