I wasn't allowed to pick the movie for years after renting "Shattered Glass" with my mom. I've never seen this one but now must. I feel like I have never worked anywhere that didn't feel like an alt-weekly even in my most institutional days.
The concerns of these fictional journalists of the 20th century are now the ones faced by their real-life counterparts in the 21st century, multiplied by the thousands.
It's interesting to see the movie present the idea that the countercultural edge was gone from an alt weekly in 1977. I grew up feeling like my local alt weekly was still lively and edgy.
I wasn't allowed to pick the movie for years after renting "Shattered Glass" with my mom. I've never seen this one but now must. I feel like I have never worked anywhere that didn't feel like an alt-weekly even in my most institutional days.
Let me know what you think if you watch Between the Lines. Bruno Kirby's character reminds me a lot of someone we both know.
The concerns of these fictional journalists of the 20th century are now the ones faced by their real-life counterparts in the 21st century, multiplied by the thousands.
It's interesting to see the movie present the idea that the countercultural edge was gone from an alt weekly in 1977. I grew up feeling like my local alt weekly was still lively and edgy.