Talk Radio (1989)
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 109m
Director: Oliver Stone
Cast: Eric Bogosian, Alec Baldwin, Ellen Greene
Synopsis:
A Jew working in a men's clothes shop in Dallas finds his true calling as a radio talk show host who lays provocative traps and then abuses his bigoted callers on air. It makes him enemies but it doesn't make him a nicer person.
Review:
Based on a fait divers also featured in Costa-Gavras's Betrayed, Oliver Stone's and Eric Bogosian's verbally pyrotechnic script is played and directed for all it's worth, with some great rack focus and lighting effects in studio, and a voice which is unforgettable. The film raises the pertinent question: is there any need for such a show (a growing trend in American media) in spite of the (horrifying) truths it reveals? A footnote in the director's work now, but wrongly for this is a great piece of one-man theatre/cinema.
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 109m
Director: Oliver Stone
Cast: Eric Bogosian, Alec Baldwin, Ellen Greene
Synopsis:
A Jew working in a men's clothes shop in Dallas finds his true calling as a radio talk show host who lays provocative traps and then abuses his bigoted callers on air. It makes him enemies but it doesn't make him a nicer person.
Review:
Based on a fait divers also featured in Costa-Gavras's Betrayed, Oliver Stone's and Eric Bogosian's verbally pyrotechnic script is played and directed for all it's worth, with some great rack focus and lighting effects in studio, and a voice which is unforgettable. The film raises the pertinent question: is there any need for such a show (a growing trend in American media) in spite of the (horrifying) truths it reveals? A footnote in the director's work now, but wrongly for this is a great piece of one-man theatre/cinema.
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 109m
Director: Oliver Stone
Cast: Eric Bogosian, Alec Baldwin, Ellen Greene
Synopsis:
A Jew working in a men's clothes shop in Dallas finds his true calling as a radio talk show host who lays provocative traps and then abuses his bigoted callers on air. It makes him enemies but it doesn't make him a nicer person.
Review:
Based on a fait divers also featured in Costa-Gavras's Betrayed, Oliver Stone's and Eric Bogosian's verbally pyrotechnic script is played and directed for all it's worth, with some great rack focus and lighting effects in studio, and a voice which is unforgettable. The film raises the pertinent question: is there any need for such a show (a growing trend in American media) in spite of the (horrifying) truths it reveals? A footnote in the director's work now, but wrongly for this is a great piece of one-man theatre/cinema.