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Public Enemy: Welcome to the Terrordome

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Screening Times: 
Friday, April 18, 2008 8:00pm
Saturday, April 26, 2008 9:45pm

Read about this film in Cyn Collins’s Daily Planet review, “21 films in 11 days.”

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Director: ROBERT PATTON-SPRUILL

Musical acts don’t get much more revered than Public Enemy, the Long Island-based hip-hop group that forced the genre into a new era of political and social consciousness in the ‘80s and ‘90s. This illuminating documentary tracks the influential and often controversial history of PE (Chuck D, Flavor Flav, Terminator X and Professor Griff) through electrifying concert footage and interviews with colleagues (Talib Kweli, Henry Rollins, The Beastie Boys) and critics, building a case for the crew’s place among the most important artists of the past century.

“Intimate, powerful, politically astute and absorbing. One needn’t be a PE fan or even a rap fan to find something enthralling in this definitive portrait of a group and an era that changed the face of popular music.” – Variety

Click here to view the trailer.

USA • 2007 • 100 MINUTES • DIRECTOR: ROBERT PATTON-SPRUILL

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Fawning puff piece

Submitted by Ed Dykhuizen (not verified) on Sun, 04/27/2008 - 08:44.

I just had to let out my frustration over this movie. I am a massive Public Enemy fan, and I expected so much more out of this documentary. You would think that, when profiling a political band, the filmmakers would actually delve into some of the political issues that Public Enemy touched upon. Or that it would least touch on the fascinating history of the group. Or the controversies they stirred up. Or the context. Or something! Instead it was about 6 reels of footage cut together over and over again, peppered with repetitive praise from a few interviewees. They didn’t even have the courage to show a single person who was critical of the group. It’s tragic to see such a wonderful subject reduced to a fawning, tedious puff piece.

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