This sounds OK in Stephen Holden's review in the New York Times of
Friday March 3, 2000.
Film Title: Homo Sapiens 1900
Director / Writer - Peter Cohen
Released by: First Run Features
85 minutes long
>From the review: "The film's most appalling moment, is when Dr. Harry
Haiselden, an American proponent of euthanasia, imperiously tells nurses
in a hospital which fragile newborn babies should be left to die." Also
presented is a neglected area, the rise of eugenecism in the early
Soviet Union (preserving and studying the brains of great leaders, etc.)
which apparently only got silenced by Stalin, because he had other more
urgent priorities, like producing more food. So, it's not just a right
wing thing. ("The truth is complicated." - Adrienne Rich.)
It's showing now in New York, only at one place -- The Screening Room, a
venue where you have to buy an expensive meal, to see the movie....
(so, I can't afford to see it there). The Screening Room (54 Varick
St., in Tri-Be-Ca) has an access ramp outside, but I don't know how
accessible it is, inside.
If Stephen Holden's review is any indication, this documentary may
belong on Public Television, perhaps with a discussion by some
thoughtful Disabled Rights activists (and maybe one or two DS scholars,
too ;o) ... ) ..... not just the usual talking heads that the mass
media would pick, like Peter Singer vs. the "right-to-lifers"... tacked
on to the end of the broadcast's presentation.
JD
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