Posted on 01/07/2015 1:53:12 PM PST by lulu16
Historian and documentarian Larry Schweikart will be at the theater for the 7:30 show, which happens also to be a freebie. So come and meet him and local conservative talk host Charles Heller, both who will go out for coffee after the screening with myself and a few others.
Schweikart's movie is about the effect of rock and roll on the destruction of the Berlin Wall. You may also know him for his books, The Patriot's History of the United States.
Look for a certain Freeper who looks like this and who will be wearing a flower in her lapel;)
http://www.thefabledmarket.com/a-spectacular-independence-day.html
http://www.thefabledmarket.com/a-spectacular-independence-day.html
Did Pink Floyd music play a large part in the fall of the wall?
/Slight Sarc
I just went and looked this up to see what it’s all about.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1786652/?ref_=ttpl_pl_tt
Shall I ask Larry this question or any that you have? I will be glad to.
Wait, do you know Larry?
No, I was just making a bad joke (referencing Pink Floyd: The Wall).
Go ahead and ask him, if you’re curious. :^)
Hope it’s a very successful evening! Would be a gas to set up an online viewing with live thread on Free Republic.
Here’s a previous thread about “Rockin the Wall.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3243692/posts
Jenny, I’ll ask him about that. I have been messaged by people who want him to appear in their town. This would make it a net event and that would be, as your moniker suggests, “cool.”
Rockin’ the Wall Studios began when noted history professor and best selling author Larry Schweikart contacted Hollywood filmmaker Marc Leif about producing a documentary based on a chapter of Professor Schweikart’s then forthcoming book, Seven Events that Made America, America.
The result was Rockin’ the Wall, an independent documentary feature about how Rock ‘n Roll helped bring about the fall of the Iron Curtain. The film was completed one year after that first conversation and in distribution about six weeks after that; an absolutely astounding record for an independent film.
Immediately after came the start of the sequel, Other Walls 2 Fall, the continuing story of how music continues as force for freedom and liberation through-out the world. Currently in post-production, that film also marked the start of Rockin’ the Wall Studios, an independent production company dedicated to producing film, television, and video that explores and celebrates freedom, individual liberty, and the values of Western civilization.
Rockin’ the Wall Studios combines decades of tough, in-the-trenches filmmaking experience with a pragmatic business expertise -— all in the service of producing entertaining, challenging, and commercially viable stories.
Well, beats the 9000th re-run of Rocky Horror Picture Show.
Keith Richards always said the fall of the wall had more to do with blue jeans and rock and roll.
Considering what I saw and heard both before and after in the East, he was right....life’s a bore under Commies.
Well, more like a nightmare...
I’ll write back if there is a clip of Richards saying such a thing.
What I heard was the ignominity of treating toilet paper as a luxury item brought down communism in Russia.
Yes, but we did not interview them.
Great night, full house.
Terrific! Congrats, old FRiend!
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