Heart of the Beholder refused at Cannes
Heart of the Beholder is an independent US film based on a true story about a family-run video shop which was forced to close by Christian fundamentalists. Ironically, just as the fundies in the film stoop to gutter level to shut the shop, so do the real-life ones in their efforts to stop the film being made and distributed.
The producer Darlene Lieblich has been bombarded with threats, e-mail viruses, fake credit-card donations, and phoney e-mails from prominent people; festivals such as Sundance and Cannes have been flooded with e-mails urging that the film not be shown. This last was orchestrated by Rev Donald Wildmon’s American Family Association.
The reasons for its rejection by Cannes are not known, but in Darlene’s words the AFA campaign “can’t have helped”.
Why did they want to ban “Blazing Saddles”? – one of the funniest films ever made ..
Uh?
Explain, please – I know all religious believers are either blackmailers, or blackmail victims or both, but this still does not make sense …..
I’d guess any religous group wanting to ban Blazing Saddles would be because of the scene where somebody shoots a Bible.
Care to prove exactly where the American Family Association has ever said ANYTHING about this movie?
Please note that the British Premiere of Heart of the Beholder will be shown as
part of the GALHA film festival on July 8th and 9th. It will be a rare chance
to see this film in the UK.
Please refer to http://www.galha.org/events/film.html
Thanks,
Derek Lennard.
With reference to the above-please note that the Executive Producer of
“Heart of the Beholder”, Darlene Lieblich, and Ken Tipton, the writer of the
film and the “real life” videostore owner featured in the film will be present
at both showings to talk about their experience of trying to get the film screened.