⟳ Репост от Radiance Films
'Joe' (out on Blu-ray in September from @filmsradiance.bsky.social with audio commentary by yours truly and @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social) hit theaters on this day in 1970, barely two months after lower Manhattan's Hard Hat Riot. Here's our pod episode on why that timing mattered:
Keep America GreatHow a riot in Manhattan reconfigured a New York exploitation classic – and American politics for half a century. John G. Avildsen’s 1970 New York drama was originally titled The Gap, dramatizing the…pod.link