![]() ![]() Still, as the Slate article notes, Gage is “responsible for peddling some of the most pernicious and long-running lies about the 9/11 attacks ” the story argues that much of his rhetoric is just one small step away from typical 4chan-level anti-Semitism. He’s a sharp, serious man in a suit, and he knows how to behave on camera. The primary voice demanding “9/11 Truth” in the original cut is Richard Gage, and in Lee’s film, he does not look like a nut. As first noted in an interview in the The New York Times, then in a pointed column in Slate, the initial cut of Epicenters didn’t merely touch upon conspiracy mongers and so-called 9/11 truthers-it exalted them. The fourth episode is now being reedited in advance of its airing on September 11 it has been pulled from HBO’s press screeners app, and Lee sent a note via publicists to journalists that read, in part, “I Respectfully Ask You To Hold Your Judgement Until You See The FINAL CUT.” While I personally hold Lee and his work in extremely high esteem (I gave Chi-Raq five stars!), this incident feels notable enough to me to disregard his request.Īt around the 75-minute mark of the episode’s original cut, the film’s panopticon approach to the city’s twin crises of COVID and terrorism went down an unusual rabbit hole. I don’t know how long the finished version will be. ![]() Seven-and-a-half of those hours were, I felt, an exuberant, maximalist, mad rush of a love letter to New York from one of the city’s greatest artists. Spike Lee’s documentary NYC Epicenters 9/11 → 2021 ½ was, when I watched it via preview links sent to me by HBO, eight hours long in total. ![]()
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