WUSA (1970) an online zoom discussion
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Movie Review https://www.nytimes.com/1970/11/02/archives/screen-allusive-wusanewman-stars-in-tale-about-radio-station.html
Film preview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sh3lwAiQ4Wo
Film https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sl6O6LkPVKo
This 1970 film is worth a second look after more than 50 years after it was made it is based on the book A Hall of Mirrors (1966) by Robert Stone. A cynical man named Rheinhardt comes to New Orleans takes a job with WUSA a right wing radio station he doesn't support the politics of the radio station, but hey it's a job. Rheinhardt meets Geraldine, a women with a past, and Rainey a idealistic but off key southern social worker who is wondering what is up at WUSA. All hell breaks loose when the owner of the radio station is a committed White Nationalist who decides that the radio station needs to hold a " patriotic" rally. The film got bad reviews, but I liked this film as a comment on the times and sadly maybe where we are in the year 2023. Please join me in discussing this 1970 film WUSA.
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