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Fortunate Son, the 1999 George W. Bush biography that made headlines for its
stories of alleged cocaine use, was recalled by St. Martin's Press after
reporters uncovered shoddy sourcing and author J. H. Hatfield's
conspiracy-to-murder conviction. Horns and Halos, the fascinating opening
picture of the 9th Underground Film Festival, tracks Hatfield (pictured)
afterward, as he teams with Sander Hicks, a Suffolk Street superintendent
and punk-rocker whose attempt to re-publish Fortunate Son takes the film
from the Lower East Side to Chicago's Book Expo to Hatfield's suicide late
last year. "We never wanted to investigate Fortunate Son," says Brooklynite
Suki Hawley, who co-directed with her husband, Michael Galinsky. "We wanted
to make a film about people." Their funny, maddening, and ultimately
shocking documentary is just one of the highlights from the Underground's 19
experimental films and 100 shorts. Other standout pictures include James
Fotopoulos's Cristabel, the rising star's avant-garde digital-video
interpretation of Coleridge's unfinished poems; Cul de Sac: A Suburban War
Story, a documentary about the San Diego plumber who stole a battle tank
from the National Guard; and Teenage Hooker Became Killing Machine in
DaeHakRoh, a South Korean revenge fantasy about a villainous, oversexed
cyborg. Begins March 6 at Anthology Film Archives.
Photograph courtesy of NYUFF.
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