You might think Antonio Barrera has a death wish. From "Patrolman P" director Ido Mizrahy, "Gored" is a portrait of Barrera, who has been impaled 23 times as a bullfighter. He is preparing to face the bulls once again in this documentary headed for the Tribeca Film Festival. Rejected throughout his career and banished to the fringes of this brutal spectacle, Barrera is an underdog known to perform with reckless abandon, eager to confront death in his tragic quest for success. Now surrounded by a wife and children who need him, Barrera is caught off guard by a new desire to live for them. This documentary on the controversial bloodsport from Motherlode Films and Roopstigo will screen at the fest with "Colin Kaepernick," a short about a future NFL quarterback's life-turning decision. Below, watch a Toh! exclusive clip from "Gored."...
- 4/13/2015
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Thompson on Hollywood
That it’s the dawn of “De Blasio Time” in New York City probably won’t be making the NYPD very happy. Neither will Ido Mizrahy’s “Patrolman P,” a film premiering November 16 at Doc NYC which will inevitably be pegged as a kind of anti-“Serpico” story of police corruption, and also happens to be a movie ripe for the grand old dramatic feature remake.The core question -- Who would be the hero? Ido Mizrahy, the director of the archival-heavy “Patrolman P,” has a protagonist on his hands who’s considerably less than a paragon of virtue. William Phillips, who appeared before the Knapp Commission of the ‘70s (the same body that heard Frank Serpico’s testimony) was pressed into wearing a wire and ratting out his dirty colleagues after he was busted taking bribes -- from, among others, Xaviera Hollander, the celebrated “Happy Hooker” (who appears in...
- 11/17/2013
- by John Anderson
- Thompson on Hollywood
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