Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by Harmonia (A) on September 29, 2002 at 21:50:09

In Reply to: Not a new trick, but a sleazy one posted by late on September 29, 2002 at 16:45:49:

Thanks for chiming in - I simply could not remember this writer's name when I posted. Never Cry Wolf was a great book - I even saw the film. But the book *was* much better.

The irony is that Mowatt is mild mannered and pretty much apolitical, while Kiarostami gets heat from Iranian officials for being too liberal and Westernized.

And yes, last time I knew, Mowatt is still banned. (There was an article somewhere about this a year or so ago. Bureacracy at its most absurd.)

Kiarostami himself is quoted in Daily Variety as responding thusly: "I certainly do not deserve an entry visa any more than the aging mother hoping to visit her children in the US, perhaps for the last time in her life...For my part, I feel this decision is somehow what I deserve." (NOT!)

Alas, Bush fils gets plenty of encouragement from that defender of liberty, John Ashcroft. What a relief. We're safe from nature writers and film directors for the near future anyway.