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Stalin's Barber: A Novel
First and foremost, my thanks to the folks behind the Early Reviewers' program at LibraryThing and to the publisher for offering this book for review. I was completely wrapped up in this story of this Jewish barber who flees Albania for the USSR, hoping for "a better world." Through family connections to the government, the barber eventually gets a post as barber to Stalin, where he gains a close-up look at the inner workings of this horrific regime. Eventually, many of his family members also come to serve the Kremlin in different capacities, and through their eyes the author exposes the day-to-day terrors faced by normal people and even those who seem to be ardent supporters of the state, all due to the changing whims of the leader and the thugs supporting him. Thematically, among other things, the book focuses largely on the idea of allegiance and loyalty -- both to the state and to family, and the choice between the two that one is often forced to make.
This is a novel that held my attention up to the last few chapters. It's very obvious that Mr. Levitt has done an extraordinary amount of research, and there is hardly a facet of this regime that is left untouched here. The gulag system is well covered, with terrifying descriptions of how things were in a representative prison; he covers the program to starve the Kulaks; there are great sequences where Stalin's minions could be called up at any time of day or night to serve his personal caprices; he also captures the paranoid atmosphere surrounding one's neighbors or co-workers who might turn out to be informers and how one innocent statement might mean another person's disappearance -- all of these facets of this terrible time period are very well described here. Where it gets kind of crazy for me is the way i
10 Forgotten s Horror Movies That Were Excellent
Of course, not every film from that era could be as well-known as Jawsor The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. Plenty of incredible horror movies from the '70s have been largely forgotten, not because of their quality, but merely because they ended up being overshadowed by the more iconic films of the decade. Although they may not be the most recognizable ones, these horror movies from the s offer lots of gore,
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Proto-Slasher ‘Alice, Sweet Alice’ Brings Holy Terror to 4K Uhd from Arrow Video
The proto-slasher has been newly restored in 4K from the original camera negative with original lossless mono audio.
Three versions of the film are included via seamless branching: the theatrical cut of Alice, Sweet Alice, the original title Communion, and the re-release as Holy Terror.
Alfred Soledirects from a script he co-wrote with Rosemary Ritvo.
Alice, Sweet Alicestars Linda Miller, Mildred Clinton, Paula Sheppard, Niles McMaster, and Brooke Shieldsin her film debut.
Special Features include:
Audio commentary with Richard Harland Smith(new) Audio commentary with co-writer/director Alfred Sole and editor M. Edward SalierFirst Communion – Interview with director Alfred Sole Alice on My Mind – Interview with composer Stephen Lawrence(new) In the Name of the Father–Interview with actor Niles McMaster (new) Sweet
Somewhere in America, a polite wife and mother goes about her business with neighbors and business associates, with perhaps only her immediate family and a few close friends aware that decades ago, under the name Paula Sheppard, she gave unforgettable performances in two of the most striking and still vigorously discussed films of their respective decades. In cult-movie-loving hearts across the world, meanwhile, the fans of those films still wonder what happened to that defiant performer. Maybe there will never be true rapprochement between these two parties, but at the very least, they can each find pleasure in those moments. And more importantly, movie audiences continue to discover her.
“This really strange guy came up to me at lunchtime and said he wanted to put me into movies. I didn’t know what to do. Several other guys had approached me with the same line, and they were obviously creeps. Alfred seemed kind and honest, though, and I talked to him about it.” &#; Paula Sheppard,
As detailed by Bruce Chadwick in a two-part article for the New York Daily News in November 3 & 4, , Paula Sheppard was an unassuming New Jersey high school girl studying dance when she was first scouted by a local filmmaker in The director was a former architect named Alfred Sole, who had achieved statewide notoriety for previously making a satirical adult film called Deep Sleep, which led to him, his producer, and two cast members being indicted by an ambitious prosecutor under a anti-fornication law, resulting in $, in legal fees. After a two-year ban from filmmaking, Sole was determined to shoot a legitimate production, and inspired by personal experience with a fanatically Catholic neighbor, along with being excommunicated from his neighborhood church as a result of being perceived as a pornographer, conceived a thriller called Communion, about murders within a Catholic parish in Paterson, the time and place of his formative years. Sole cast
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