{"id":44484,"date":"2019-02-21T13:40:27","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T21:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/g9r.3b8.myftpupload.com\/?p=44484"},"modified":"2020-02-04T00:07:16","modified_gmt":"2020-02-04T08:07:16","slug":"hugh-hefners-after-dark-speaking-out-in-america-berman-2018-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/g9r.3b8.myftpupload.com\/?p=44484","title":{"rendered":"Hugh Hefner&#8217;s After Dark: Speaking Out in America (Berman, 2018): Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reviewed by Matheus Clorado. Viewed at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival 2019.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px;float: left\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.mubi.com\/images\/film\/214557\/image-w1280.jpg?1535760700\" alt=\"Image result for hugh hefner playboy after dark speaking out in america\" width=\"325\" height=\"200\" \/><em>Hugh Hefner&#8217;s After Dark<\/em> will have people talking into the late hours. This historically rich documentary will impress even those already familiar with the <em>Playboy<\/em>\u00a0publisher&#8217;s political views.<\/p>\n<p>Brigitte Berman, honored with an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for her 1986 <em>Artie Shaw: Time is All You&#8217;ve Got<\/em>, comes back with this masterpiece that revolves around two TV shows hosted by Hefner &#8211; <em>Playboy&#8217;s Penthouse<\/em> and <em>Playboy After Dark<\/em>. The former ran during the late 50s and the latter, a decade later.<\/p>\n<p>The atmosphere of those times was quite unstable, with the harsh reality of segregation. So, Hefner&#8217;s diverse private key clubs looked at from where our society stands today depicts how bold of an activist he really was. Both TV shows included male and female personalities in a relaxed environment filled with appetizers, good beverages and iconic pipes. If not the inventor of a <em>soir\u00e9e<\/em>, this <em>bon vivant<\/em> absolutely pioneered in crafting a liberating lifestyle that would go on further for generations, impacting the entire world.<\/p>\n<p>Berman focuses, however, on how significant his actions were for music history. Hefner not only welcomed women and men of color in his penthouse &#8211; he gave them a platform to share their music, their jokes and their voices. Featuring Nina Simone and present-day interviews with Whoopi Goldberg, <em>Speaking Out in America<\/em> is one of the most rewarding documentaries out there.<\/p>\n<p>With an extensive amount of footage, this project unquestionably was puzzling. It certainly required a passionate driving interest for spreading the relevance of its content. Nearly just as impressive as the material covered is\u00a0the editing job, also assisted by the director herself. At some point, a recorded performance of &#8220;Applause&#8221; blends in on the screen with a current-day revisit by the same artist &#8211; simply time-defying.<\/p>\n<p>Needless to say that anyone should enjoy the experience constructed by Brigitte Berman and her team. The documentary effortlessly transcends from the <em>Playboy<\/em> world into the daily struggle of promoting equal rights and open dialogue, revealing its own relevance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reviewed by Matheus Clorado. Viewed at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival 2019. Hugh Hefner&#8217;s After Dark will have people talking into the late hours. This historically rich documentary will impress even those already familiar with the Playboy\u00a0publisher&#8217;s political views. Brigitte Berman, honored with an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for her 1986 Artie [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":247014,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,337],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films","category-santa-barbara-film-festival-2019"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/g9r.3b8.myftpupload.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/g9r.3b8.myftpupload.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/g9r.3b8.myftpupload.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/g9r.3b8.myftpupload.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/247014"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/g9r.3b8.myftpupload.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44484"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/g9r.3b8.myftpupload.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46778,"href":"https:\/\/g9r.3b8.myftpupload.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44484\/revisions\/46778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/g9r.3b8.myftpupload.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/g9r.3b8.myftpupload.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/g9r.3b8.myftpupload.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}