COLD WAR TALE TOLD AT LAST

NY Post ^ | April 29, 2006 | RICHARD JOHNSON with PAULA FROELICH and CHRIS WILSON

[Pharmboy]

DOWNTOWN nightclub Salon was packed Thursday night with a non-left-leaning crowd that had its mind on a fight for freedom that's finally getting overdue attention. Andrew Vajna's "Freedom's Fury," which screened at the Tribeca Film Festival, tells the harrowing story of the bloody clash at the 1956 Olympics, when Soviet-Hungarian tensions exploded during a water polo match, shortly after the U.S.S.R. had crushed the Hungarian revolt.

Earlier in the week, Rudy Giuliani, at a Manhattan Institute dinner honoring Tom Wolfe, raved about the "riveting" movie, which was co-produced by Quentin Tarantino, Lucy Liu, Megan Raney, Colin Gray and human-rights campaigner Thor Halvorssen. Tarantino calls it "the best story never told."

A poster featuring the iconic Cold War image of Hungarian Olympic water polo player Ervin Zador with blood streaming down from his swimcap stood as the only visual cue of the party's theme. Zador himself sat in a corner, but at least two attendees pushed their way through to talk to him: radio legend Barry Farber, who personally pulled Hungarians to freedom in boats across the Einsner canal after the crushed uprising in Budapest 1956, and Gi-Hong Zang, the only North Korean veteran to become a U.S. citizen. Zang, who became a Hamptons architect, named his daughter Ulla after Farber's ex-wife. The story of the Farber- Zang friendship that began in a refugee camp in Budapest will be featured in a Swedish TV documentary in May.

[Pharmboy]

Here's something you don't read about every day...

[bkepley]

Here's something I don't think I've ever read about.

[decimon]

Good on Tarantino. Hope this leads to more Iron Curtain/Bamboo Curtain stuff.

[syriacus]

Good on Tarantino. Hope this leads to more Iron Curtain/Bamboo Curtain stuff.

I agree. The the curtains and walls have fallen. Now the untruthful historical facade, which was erected by lovers of socialism, needs to be taken apart.

[Condor51]

If Quentin Tarantino and Lucy Liu were co-producers, their version of this water polo match will be the bloodiest in the history of the world. :-)

It WAS A Goal, Want To Argue?

Out Of Bounds, Our Ball. No It's OUR Ball!!

I've seen Kill Bill Vol 1 and Vol 2 about 20 time each, and the rest of Quentin's movies at least a dozen times each -- I must be sick ;-)

(no, it was all those 'Violent' Cowboy movies I watched growing up. Yeah that's the ticket. Roy Rogers made me do it)

[SSR1]

Finally caught Kill Bill (both volumes) last summer and LOVED THEM!
What was fun, was I watched Kill Bill then watched Team America. The just put Kill Bill into such a funny context! The South Park boys know how to poke fun!
Taratino has done three GREAT movies: Kill Bill, Pulp Fiction, and Reservoir Dogs.
(God, that is a HELL of a movie!) I was totally caught unaware. A good friend of mine showed it to me late one night back in 92.
I'm not a big fan of his work with other directors. Just not a strong or tight as when he is directing his own stuff.

[Pharmboy]

Plenty of blood in the water, no doubt...

[RazzPutin]

Every year the local University has an "International Film Festival" which is a Lefty-Commie celebration.

Does anybody have suggestions for conservative movies and documentaries?

[ncountylee]

I remember seeing cuts from the match and the blood was in the water. Life and Look had big spreads but this was pre-liberal MSM.