Fuck (film)
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| Fuck | |
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 The movie that dare not speak its name. |
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| Directed by | Steve Anderson |
| Produced by | Steve Anderson |
| Music by | Carvin Knowles |
| Cinematography | Andre Fontanelle |
| Distributed by | THINKFilm |
| Release date(s) | November 7, 2005 |
| Running time | 93 min. |
| Language | English |
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Fuck (sometime titled as FUCK or The "F" Word; seen on the poster as F*ck and on DVD packaging a F*ck: (A F*ckumentary)) is a 2005 documentary by director/producer Steve Anderson about the social, political, personal, historical, linguistic and artistic significance of the word fuck. It features commentary by a variety of individuals, including linguists, comics, artists, musicians, filmmakers, authors, porn stars, politicians, and media personalities as well as clips from George Carlin, Scarface, Country Joe and the Fish's Woodstock performance, President George W. Bush's one-fingered salute to a camera, various Lenny Bruce performances, U2's Golden Globe acceptance, Paul Robert Cohen's protest and Nipplegate, accompanied with animated segues created by Bill Plympton. The movie was shown for the first time on November 7, 2005 at the AFI Film Festival.
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[edit] Interviewees
- The Basics
- Reinhold Aman (linguist)
- Pat Boone
- Benjamin C. Bradlee
- Drew Carey
- Chuck Conconi (former editor with the Washingtonian)
- Billy Connolly
- John Crossley (associate professor of religion at USC and ACLU board member)
- Chuck D
- Sam Donaldson
- Janeane Garofalo
- Ice T
- Timothy Jay (APA award winner and profanity expert. Author of Cursing in America and Why We Curse. Psychology Professor at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts)
- Ron Jeremy
- Alan Keyes
- Janet M. LaRue (chief legal counsel for Concerned Women for America)
- Bill Maher
- Miss Manners
- Dave Marsh
- Michael Medved
- David Milch
- Alanis Morissette
- Geoffrey Nunberg (Stanford linguist and contributor to the American Heritage Dictionary)
- Tera Patrick
- Robert W. Peters (president of Morality in Media, Inc., anti-pornography advocate)
- Dennis Prager
- Robert Corn Revere (First Amendment lawyer)
- Evan Seinfeld of Biohazard
- David Shaw
- Jesse Sheidlower (principal editor of the Oxford English Dictionary)
- David Skover (First Amendment scholar and co-author of The Trials of Lenny Bruce)
- Kevin Smith
- Hunter S. Thompson
- Sandra Tsing Loh
- Alfred Derleth
[edit] See also
- List of films that most frequently use the word "fuck"
- The Aristocrats, a similar film discussing a notoriously dirty joke.
