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Obscene (2007)
Director: Neil Ortenberg, Daniel O’Connor
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From Time Out Chicago
Obscene may be the first and last rock & roll documentary about book publishing, largely because there isn’t anyone like its subject, Grove Press founder Barney Rosset, left in the game. Rosset was the first American to publish banned works like Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Tropic of Cancer and Naked Lunch—and to go to court to defend each one of them. O’Connor and Ortenberg track his entire life, from a fairly comfortable Chicago upbringing to getting bombed for publishing the writing of Che Guevara. What the doc captures best, though, is how Rosset the connoisseur of literature is really secondary to Rosset the expert rabble-rouser.Author: Jonathan Messinger
Time Out Chicago Issue 192: October 30–November 5, 2008
Cast & crew
Director: Neil Ortenberg, Daniel O’Connor
Rated: NR
Duration: 97 mins
US Release: Sep 26 2008
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