Unfortunately, it's a film I've never seen, so I can't offer any useful commentary here; and thus this announcement of its home video release is good news, as I'll be able to finally check it out. The details follow... -- Icarus Films is proud to announce the release of Seventeen on home video on August 18, 2015! Before Hoop Dreams, there was Seventeen. Too controversial for PBS, which refused to broadcast it, this final film in the famous Middletown series went on to win the first Grand Jury Prize for Documentary at the 1985 Sundance Film Festival. Directed by Joel DeMott and Jeff Kreines and produced by Academy Award winner Peter Davis (Hearts & Minds), Seventeen...
- 6/24/2015
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
In 1929 and 1937, sociologists Robert and Helen Lynd published the books Middletown: A Study In Modern American Culture and Middletown In Transition: A Study In Cultural Conflicts, detailing the core organizing principles and concerns of one mid-sized American town, later revealed to be Muncie, Indiana. A few decades later, Academy Award-winning documentarian Peter Davis (director of the searing Vietnam/homefront doc Hearts And Minds) headed to Muncie with a team of filmmakers for the Middletown project, a series of six documentaries about the state of work, politics, education, religion, recreation, and family life in the American heartland in the ...
- 9/29/2010
- avclub.com
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