14.12.2011 | Coming soon: »FILMING RAGE: OLIVER STONE ON TALK RADIO«
Oliver Stone’s excellent TALK RADIO (1988), based on Eric Bogosian’s acclaimed off-Broadway play about a fearless, self-destructive radio shock jock, is arguably the filmmaker’s most underrated movie. Made between WALL STREET and BORN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY, it somehow slipped through the cracks — and yet it features on many cinephiles’ lists as their favourite Stone film, or is singled out as the exception by people who generally do not care for Stone. Bogosian, who also stars in the film, based his bravura performance on Alan Berg, a real-life Denver radio talk show host who was fatally shot by members of a white nationalist group. For Carlotta Films’ French DVD release of TALK RADIO (street date in France: 18 January 2012), Fiction Factory has now visited Oliver Stone in his L.A. office and created a 27-minute documentary, FILMING RAGE: OLIVER STONE ON TALK RADIO. All previous US and international DVD releases of TALK RADIO were bare of any special features — a flaw that Fiction Factory (Munich), Carlotta Films (Paris) and Mr. Stone himself were only too eager to adjust. FILMING RAGE was produced and directed by Robert Fischer and co-produced by Vincent Paul-Boncour.