Obscene

Director: Daniel O'Connor & Neil Ortenberg
Cast: Barney Rosset, John Waters, Gore Vidal, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Erica Jong, Jim Carroll, Al Goldstein, Ray Manzarek, Amiri Baraka, John Rechy
Format: HDCam   Runtime: 97 minutes
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Screening Times

5:00 PM, Friday March 7th - Alamo Ritz 2
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2:00 PM, Sunday March 9th - Dobie
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Synopsis:
Barney Rosset is the greatest American publisher of the twentieth century. Under Rosset, Grove Press and Evergreen Review fought decisive battles to defeat legal censorship, and opened American life to new and dangerous currents of freedom. But Rosset's public fight against hypocrisy and injustice is inextricable from his tumultuous personal life: the same unyeilding, quixotic, restless energy that upended centuries of law brought Rosset perilously close to destruction.

Director's Bio:
Dan O'ConnorDuring his ten years with Thunder's Mouth Press, Daniel O'Connor served variously as Managing Editor, Senior Editor, and Associate Publisher. He was the director of Blue Moon Books, acquired by Avalon from Barney Rosset in 1998. O'Connor is a partner in Double O Film Productions.

Neil Ortenberg is the founder and former publisher of Thunder's Mouth Press, where he published Gregory Corso, Hubert Selby Jr., Melvin Van Peebles, Nelson Algren, Gore Vidal, Dee Dee Ramone, John Sayles, Chester Himes and many other notable authors. In 1988 Thunder's Mouth Press was awarded the distinguished Carey-Thomas Award for "Best Example of Creative Publishing." Newsweek called him "A Gonzo Publisher." He is the co-founder of Adrenaline Books and, with Nation magazine, co-founder of NationBooks. He was Executive Vice-President of the Avalon Publishing Group and director of its New York Office. With Barney Rosset he is editor of The Outlaw Bible of American Literature, which was reviewed on the front cover of the New York Times Book Review, and was called "Baddasss 101" by Time Out Magazine. Ortenberg is a partner in Double O Film Productions. The New York Times called him "A Publisher with a Rock and Roll Heart'.