http://therumpus.net/2012/05/the-rumpus-review-of-punishment-park-2/ Books, Music, Movies, Art, Politics, Sex, Other Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:41:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://therumpus.net/2012/05/the-rumpus-review-of-punishment-park-2/comment-page-1/#comment-329190 Bret McCabe Fri, 25 May 2012 18:51:04 +0000 http://therumpus.net/?p=101180#comment-329190 It is so very refreshing to see this movie getting some attention after its 2005 DVD issue. I’m not sure the movie was ever outright “banned” in the U.S. or if it just wasn’t wasn’t exhibited over here after short-term engagements, but the end result is the same. Watkins had explored the actors as participatory docudrama players as early as ’64 in “Culloden,” and his 1969 “Gladiators”–war as TV entertainment–retains every bit of bite that “Punishment Park” does. He’s a director very ripe for ongoing rediscovery. Kudos.

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