Comments on: DVD Review: Controversial 1985 Sundance Documentary Winner ‘Seventeen’

By: Jane Abramowicz

Jane Abramowicz — Mon, 23 May 2016 02:37:20 +0000

"…at one time, the jurors in Park City stood behind dangerous or risky filmmaking."

The jurors that year were D.A. Pennebaker, Barbara Kopple, and Fred Wiseman. Not exactly chopped liver.

By: Jane Abramowicz

Jane Abramowicz — Mon, 23 May 2016 02:37:20 +0000

This review seems to be fixated — pretty foolishly IMHO — on treating Seventeen more as a controversy than as a film. No one has given any thought to Middletown or Peter Davis for over thirty years, for obvious reasons.

I found these online — they will give you better information about what really happened to the film and the filmmakers.

Unfortunately, Indiewire won\’t let me post any links. Go to the Wikipedia page for the film and you will find the links, which are fascinating.

By: Bob Kanter

Bob Kanter — Mon, 23 May 2016 02:37:20 +0000

This is not the filmmaker\’s version of Seventeen — it is a hideous looking version of a beautiful movie. (I saw it at BAM last week.) Don\’t buy the DVD. Any version that does not have handwritten titles is a terrible (not to mention censored) desecration of a great film. Whoever put this version out should be ashamed of themselves.