Town Bloody Hall (1979)

Town Bloody Hall: Directed by Chris Hegedus, D.A. Pennebaker. With Norman Mailer, Germaine Greer, Diana Trilling, Jacqueline Ceballos. Infamously macho author Norman Mailer shares a 1971 NYC panel with an audience of intellectual women and famous feminists receiving a lively critique revealing the sophisticated political, literary discourse of early Women’s Lib movement.

“Iu0026#39;m in my early twenties – so Norman Mailer, Susan Sontag and Germaine Greer were mostly famous names to me. After stumbling across this documentary on tv I got hooked though. Seeing highly intelligent people debating is almost always entertaining, and there are many fantastic moments in this documentary. The arguments and the characters are marked by their time (the debate takes place in 1971), but it paints an interesting picture of the different aspects of the gender debate in that period. Seeing the documentary today is an excellent way of getting a perspective on the feminist debate today and comparing.”