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Commissioner's
Comment Nick Fraser
Storyville Series Editor
Town Bloody Hall captures New York intellectual life at a distinct moment - the arrival of feminism.
DA Pennebaker was there to record the splendid debate in the old Town Hall where the grizzled lion Norman Mailer confronted a great number of amused, or angry feminist sisters, all the while pretending to be the impartial moderator.
Mailer's performance is hysterically funny, even by the standards of his own excesses; but the sisters speak what now appears to be a good deal of sense. Those who can remember this cultural moment will enjoy the sight of the ravishing Germaine Greer in an off-the-shoulder dress.
Younger viewers will merely be amused at what their parents once did.
