PUTNEY SWOPE TRAILER
February 1, 2012 
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Truly one of the great subversive films of the 70s, the trailer for Robert Downey’s 1969 Putney Swope remains one of my all-time faves. A scathing satire on the advertising business, Putney Swope (Arnold Johnson) is the only black man on the board of an advertising firm, who inadvertently gets voted in as chair when all the other board members – unable to vote for themselves – all vote for the person they think is least likely to get votes. Thus Putney Swope is unanimously sworn in as the new chair, renaming the company Truth and Soul, Inc and setting in place policies to refuse business from any company that sells tobacco, booze or arms, which completely upsets the system. The film was a sensation at the time and its influence can still be felt in irreverent comedy today (its premise would also be neutered in Tony Bill’s 1990 film Crazy People).
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Kier-La Janisse is a film writer and programmer, price of propecia from canada founder of Spectacular Optical Publications and The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies. She has been a programmer for the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema and Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas, co-founded Montreal microcinema Blue Sunshine, founded the CineMuerte Horror Film Festival (1999-2005) in Vancouver, was the Festival Director of Monster Fest in Melbourne, Australia and was the subject of the documentary Celluloid generic levitra online overnight delivery Horror (2005). She is the author of A Violent Professional: The Films of Luciano Rossi (FAB Press, 2007) and House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films (FAB Press, 2012) and contributed to Destroy All Movies!! The Complete Guide to Punks on Film (Fantagraphics, 2011), Recovering 1940s Horror: Traces of a Lost Decade (Lexington, 2014) The Canadian Horror Film: Terror of the Soul (University of Toronto Press, 2015) and We Are the Martians: The Legacy of Nigel Kneale (PS Press, 2017). She canadian online pharmacy no prescription needed co-edited (with Paul Corupe) and published the anthology books KID POWER! (2014), Satanic Panic: Pop-Cultural Paranoia in the 1980s (2015), Lost Girls: The Phantasmagorical Cinema of Jean Rollin (2017) and Yuletide Terror: Christmas Horror on Film and Television (2017). She edited the book Warped & Faded: Weird Wednesday and the Birth of the American Genre Film Archive (forthcoming), and is currently co-authoring (with Amy Searles) the book ‘Unhealthy and Aberrant’: Depictions of Horror Fandom in Film and Television and co-curating (with Clint Enns) an anthology book on the films of Robert Downey, Sr., as well as writing a monograph about Monte Hellman’s Cockfighter. She was a producer on Mike Malloy’s Eurocrime: the Italian Cop and Gangster Films That Ruled the ’70s and Sean Hogan’s We Always Find Ourselves in the Sea and her first film as director/producer, Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror is due out from Severin Films in 2020.
