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- 0:00G'day. That's right, it's that time again. Time for Cinema Yugen!
- 0:15Yes, welcome back! Cinema Yugen Riverbent, the American Cinematique,
- 0:23presents the long-awaited Los Angeles premiere of Riverbed from 1989,
- 0:30screening from a pristine, never-before-projected 35mm print discovered in Amazon's MGM vaults.
- 0:39The long unavailable, except in former worn VHS tapes,
- 0:44this bold, action-driven drama is about three black Vietnam soldiers leading
- 0:50a southern town in a rise against a racist sheriff and has been virtually unseen for 35 years.
- 0:58This one-night-only event marks a milestone in the film's ongoing restoration
- 1:04by Real Black Renaissance.
- 1:08A Philadelphia-based boutique distributor dedicated to preserving and re-releasing looked black cinema.
- 1:16The full 6K restoration is underway
- 1:20with a theatrical and Blu-ray released planned for early next year.
- 1:27Now, a technical difficulty kept the beautiful and vivacious Margaret Avery,
- 1:33Oscar nominee, from joining us on the show, but the sky is still so full of stars.
- 1:39So, Yugenites, please welcome Julius Tennant, Alex Morris, The godfather of
- 1:47ninja movies, Sam Furstenberg, and the man behind all of this series.
- 1:54Great stuff regarding Riverbend. Michael J. Dennis.
- 1:58Gentlemen, g'day all, and welcome to Cinema Yougidon. Good afternoon.
- 2:04Good afternoon to you too.
- 2:06Hey, it's Mike. Hey. October 14th, Tuesday, October 14th, 7.30pm at the Aero
- 2:14Theatre in Santa Monica.
- 2:16It and everyone's going to get to see this wonderful film finally in its best most beautiful.
- 2:25Version what will it be like gentlemen going around the table to uh to sit together
- 2:31and watch this film after so many years i'll start i'll let sam sam you start
- 2:37off you're the director you tell us how you feel thank you thank you very much
- 2:41number one kent we are so happy to be here with you and all your viewers.
- 2:45Thank you for joining us, and thank you for listening to this.
- 2:50As you know, very shortly, this movie was produced and made,
- 2:54the movie Riverbend, was made 35 years ago.
- 2:57It's a controversial, it's a racial discrimination type of a movie, not your,
- 3:05regular type of a movie.
- 3:09And what happened, it was privately produced, not by a company,
- 3:13but rather by private money.
- 3:14It was a vision of the writer, Sam Vance. It was his vision.
- 3:18All of us, we executed his vision of a story, of a certain story,
- 3:24which is quite controversial, the story.
- 3:27But what happened, because it was privately produced, the movie vanished at
- 3:32some point for many industrial reasons, the film industry.
- 3:37The movie vanished and disappeared for 35 years.
- 3:40And it existed only here and there on few VHS, very poor visual quality.
- 3:48And until three years ago, entered the picture of Mr.
- 3:54Michael Dennis from the organization Black Real, and he's an avid,
- 3:58avid collector of black cinema and preserver of black cinema.
- 4:03Really, he invests a lot in this hobby of his, let's call it.
- 4:11And it took about three years of all kinds of investigative work,
- 4:16and he found, eventually, he found the original material.
- 4:21It was not easy to find the original negative. The movie really vanished, disappeared.
- 4:26It became what is called an orphan movie. But Michael found it, found the negative.
- 4:31And along with the negative, we found two untouched 35-millimeter prints that
- 4:36have never been screened before.
- 4:38We already, Michael and me, went to some festivals, but not with this original,
- 4:43beautiful, vivid color print.
- 4:46And now the American Cinematheque agreed to host us and to have a nice West
- 4:52Coast premiere. The movie never played in the West Coast.
- 4:56It played in the East Coast, never played in the West Coast.
- 4:59So we are going to have...
- 5:01Delated, premiered 35 years later, and the actors will be there.
- 5:10Sadly enough, the star of the movie, Steve James, passed away,
- 5:13but his daughter will be there.
- 5:15And Margaret Avery, Alex, Julius.
- 5:20I will be there. It's going to be very exciting screening, good quality.
- 5:25And I just want to add one word, because we already seen the movie, Michael and Me.
- 5:30Through the years especially because
- 5:33what happened in the last three years four years the
- 5:37movie has an added element added value because of the thing that happened from
- 5:43a racial point of view from uh the advance of if we might say so you all know
- 5:51black life matter they found the police, all those elements that came in,
- 5:55the movie suddenly has an added element,
- 5:59added value that will be exciting to everybody.
- 6:02So we are excited about this screening.
- 6:05And Sam, do you think that the racial element, Sam, is what kept it from a wide release back then?
- 6:11We suspect, I cannot, you know, I don't have proofs.
- 6:16This is a small movie, small independent movie, and suddenly it was bought by Paramount.
- 6:21So this huge big distribution company why do they bother to buy such a small
- 6:26movie because at the same time they had mississippi burning.
- 6:31And it's non-practice in hollywood it
- 6:34is called to buy to bury or
- 6:37buy to bury some companies in the history
- 6:40of hollywood if you look in the history of hollywood it happened
- 6:43a few times that a big company will buy a
- 6:46movie and in order not to compete on another movie
- 6:49that they have a bigger movie they would bury it so i
- 6:53suspect so i cannot i don't know because they
- 6:56had mississippi burning it's kind of the same subject
- 6:59more or less they bought the movie except except
- 7:03your film's a little bit sort of first blood meets mississippi burning because
- 7:08you've got the uh the returning vietnam veterans in uh in in julius and uh alex
- 7:16and i have to say fellas the way that you get out of that car at the start was pretty ingenious.
- 7:21You know, when he, uh, he turns to old mate and he says, how about a cigarette
- 7:24for one of my brothers? Yeah.
- 7:26And he used the cigarette to start a fire. And that's, that's really ingenious.
- 7:30I've never seen guys get out of a situation by setting the back of the car on fire.
- 7:39I'm not even sure if anything ever smoked. I didn't smoke. Did you smoke Julius?
- 7:43No, not. I don't smoke now. I know. That's what I'm saying. No, you smoke. Yeah.
- 7:49So how cool was, you know, Steve James always insisted on very clean image,
- 7:56so he didn't want to smoke.
- 7:58He wanted to pass it off. He passed it. He put it on Julius.
- 8:03He put it on me. He put it on Julius. I started the damn fire. Yeah.
- 8:09So how cool was Steve James in real life? You know what? Steve was amazing,
- 8:14man. Let me tell you something.
- 8:15You're talking about a great, a talented brother.
- 8:19But also a great human being, man. You couldn't find a better person, man.
- 8:25I mean, this guy was top notch.
- 8:28And the way he treated Alex and I and Alex to speak what he's going to speak,
- 8:32but we had nothing but utmost respect for him.
- 8:36And he had the same for us. And even though he was a star of the movie,
- 8:41he felt like our contribution was so important to the movie.
- 8:46And, you know, for me and Alex, both, it was our first big, even though it was
- 8:50an independent, Sam, it was our first big movie.
- 8:54And we were in Texas. We hadn't moved to California.
- 8:57And so this was my breakout and Alex as well for both of us.
- 9:03And then to work with Steve James and to have the humanity of who he was and
- 9:08what he stood for, man, it was amazing. Yeah.
- 9:12I echo Julia's sentiments 100 percent.
- 9:17Steve was, I think, was a very underrated actor.
- 9:20I think a lot of people thought of him a lot as the action hero, the superhero type.
- 9:25But he was actually a very careful, detailed, and very well thought out actor.
- 9:30We dubbed ourselves the Three Stooges. Steve was Moe, I was Larry, Julius was Curly.
- 9:36That's right. And that was— Because he loved the Three Stooges.
- 9:38He did. He was a big Three Stooges fan. And so we dubbed ourselves that.
- 9:43And that whole experience, like Julius said, was our breakout moment.
- 9:48We were both so new and so green. That's right. But we were so happy to just
- 9:52be there, to be a part of it.
- 9:54We had no idea it would become what it's become.
- 9:57We were just enjoying the work, enjoying being with each other.
- 10:02I mean, we became really fast and close friends.
- 10:06Julius and I have been friends now for, heck, as long as the movies,
- 10:09all those years later. Yeah, yeah.
- 10:12And then we loved working with Sam. Sam was great. I mean, we were guys from Texas.
- 10:16Right. And Steve, where, you know, Hollywood people had done all this work and stuff.
- 10:22Alex and I had worked a lot in
- 10:24Texas. We were kind of the up-and-comer big dogs in Texas. Right, right.
- 10:30Because Alex, she started off in theater. I mean, it was great working with
- 10:33Sam and everybody, and it was a learning.
- 10:38I mean, I think we did a really great job, but I think if I look,
- 10:42when I look back, I think there's some things that Alex and I probably look
- 10:46at and we say we could have done better.
- 10:49But it's still, the movie came off great, and Steve was extremely,
- 10:53extremely proud of this movie, extremely proud of everybody that was in the movie.
- 10:58Yeah, he was great. Do you think if this film had a proper release back in the
- 11:03day that it would have propelled Steve James a little bit because this was like
- 11:07his first? Oh, definitely.
- 11:09I'm for sure for him, and it would have propelled Alex and I, too, into Hollywood.
- 11:14Because people would have said, who are these two guys? Who are these two guys?
- 11:17These are the guys that are coming through. You know, I think it could have done a lot.
- 11:21And Steve always spoke to that. He said, you know, if a lot more people had
- 11:25seen this movie, it would have done a lot for all of us.
- 11:30Steve was a beautiful brother I
- 11:33can't emphasize that enough Not only
- 11:35was he a good actor But he was
- 11:38a good human being I think he had the respect and admiration Of everybody on
- 11:45set I think that's why the scenes With us being introduced to the men As their
- 11:50commanders came off so realistically Because Steve was that guy He really was the leader of that group,
- 11:59So that would have helped that he started off as a stuntman.
- 12:01Yeah, yeah, yeah. With all the choreographing and the fights and all that.
- 12:05You know, guys, I would like to add something.
- 12:09Steve James. I was close to Steve James because we made four movies together. Right.
- 12:14And Steve James was, number one, an avid collector of black cinema.
- 12:21Besides being an actor, in his house, he had about 1,000 copies at the time, VHS cassettes.
- 12:29Of only black cinema starting from the silent era.
- 12:34Either black director, black stars, you know, that subject.
- 12:38And he was very involved in this whole subject of promoting,
- 12:43preserving black cinema was very important to him.
- 12:48And that's why he was so proud about this part, because one of his complaints,
- 12:54and everybody complains, in black cinema, and especially in action, And it's always,
- 12:59you know, the white guys who come and save the black. Yeah, that's right.
- 13:04And, and, and by the way, I worked with Richard Rountree one time,
- 13:09not as an act as assistant director years back.
- 13:14So Steve wanted to be the next shaft. This was really, he wanted to be a proud,
- 13:20proud black action American hero.
- 13:25He really was a precursor to like. But that's why this movie,
- 13:28suddenly Riverbend, where everything was conducted in the hand of black characters,
- 13:37that's why he was so proud about this movie. And that's why it was so important to him.
- 13:43He really was a precursor to Wesley Snipes, wasn't he?
- 13:46Yes. What Wesley Snipes would become, that was really what Steve James might
- 13:50have become had his life not been, you know, cuts short.
- 13:55So I was reading somewhere that Sidney Poitier was one of the,
- 13:59read one of the eulogies. He did. I was at that service.
- 14:03I was at the service when Sidney, because he knew Steve really, really well.
- 14:08Yeah. And I got to meet him for the first time. I mean, obviously,
- 14:11for all of us, Sidney has meant everything to any black actor. They call me Mr.
- 14:17Chibbs. That's right, man. I tell you, you're talking about a human being.
- 14:20That's another one, man. That's a real human being, man.
- 14:24What an incredible damn talent, but, man, what a great person.
- 14:29One of the greatest days in my life was when Viola did the help in 2010,
- 14:33and he and gang Puck met us when we got out to the—we drove up to the restaurant,
- 14:38and there was the great Sidney Poitier and Wolfgang Puck. I mean, what?
- 14:43And I had already met him because I had met him at Steve's service. Yeah.
- 14:47I met him there. And he was measured and he was great and he loved Steve. He did.
- 14:53He really loved Steve. And Steve used to speak highly of him.
- 14:57Yeah. It's pretty monumental. Yeah. But this film, I think,
- 15:02as Sam was saying earlier, has a lot
- 15:05of different meanings and a lot more relevance today because a lot of the things
- 15:11and a lot of the terrible and virile hatred that exists in the heart of this
- 15:20movie is still prevalent today.
- 15:23Today like that unfortunately the world
- 15:26hasn't moved on no very much no
- 15:30it hasn't that's true i mean we're in
- 15:32the states we've kind of gotten numb to seeing those kind
- 15:36of images attacks on black bodies but i i can tell you for a fact you know when
- 15:41sam and i first brought riverbent to denton texas and later to boston massachusetts
- 15:47and gary indiana the film really resonates with the audience because they say, wow,
- 15:54you know, this, this is a movie that was made in 1989 set in 1966.
- 15:59It is still relevant to what I'm watching on my social media today.
- 16:04Yeah. You know, so I have to applaud, you know, Sam and Valerie Vance and Troy
- 16:10and Regina Dale for having the guts to put money behind this idea and make this movie so that we can,
- 16:18we can have a conversation still. Yeah.
- 16:21Is that Martin Luther King has been brought up quite a bit during the recent unpleasantness.
- 16:29And it struck me when I was writing my review. There is a line about Martin
- 16:32Luther King in the movie. Yeah.
- 16:35When I was writing my review for coming soon to filmthreat.com,
- 16:39I put in part of his speech that I have a dream that one day on the red hills
- 16:45of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will
- 16:50sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
- 16:53I think we're still waiting for that dream, yeah?
- 16:55Yeah, I think so. Listen, you
- 16:58know, I mean, the animus and what America always has been is what it is.
- 17:05And in spite of that, we've still kind of pushed through all of those different
- 17:11barriers, all the things that have happened.
- 17:13We've always just kind of found a way to keep moving forward in spite of.
- 17:20And so as much as things have changed, they really haven't changed.
- 17:23I mean, You know, you still have lynchings in certain parts of the South,
- 17:27the deep South and things like that in rural America here and there.
- 17:32So a lot of that stuff still persists.
- 17:36It's just a bit different now. And it's not as outrageous as it was.
- 17:42It's more now in suits and business suites and different like that that you
- 17:50have to kind of navigate.
- 17:52Because, you know, now I'm a producer myself here in Hollywood.
- 17:55And, you know, and oftentimes I'm in rooms and I'm, I'm the only dude in there, man.
- 18:01It ain't no other, it ain't no other. It's not a lot of us.
- 18:04It's still some, but there's not a lot of us. And then you still have to deal
- 18:09with certain kinds of, you still have to deal with things, even though I'm there,
- 18:13whatever, I'm with a group and I'm with my white counterparts and it's great and all that.
- 18:17We're trying to get things done, but the battle is still a battle.
- 18:21And, you know, so, you know, but we just kind of have to keep pushing through when we have.
- 18:28I think that's why this movie resonates now, because it's an example of people
- 18:33standing up for themselves who finally say enough is enough.
- 18:36And they take control of their situation rather than allowing the situation to control them.
- 18:43And I think that's this movie exemplifies that idea.
- 18:47And uh it's something that seeing it
- 18:51back again seeing it at this time gives me a
- 18:53sense of of pride of of of a sense
- 18:56of resilience we can stand up like like julius was saying sometimes he's the
- 19:01only dude in there but he is the dude that's pushing the the the thing up to
- 19:06heel he is pushing it forward and and this movie represents these types of people
- 19:11that collectively are trying it to, to push it forward.
- 19:15Yeah. Because I mean, that's, um, there's a real terror that like the, the
- 19:19probably one of the most beautiful moments is that the
- 19:22scene at the end when you've got all the whites on one line
- 19:25and you've got all the colored people on the other side and
- 19:28that's you know it's it's it and then
- 19:31of course they they kiss in the middle and the pop song comes
- 19:34in like it's a nice way to cap off a movie but it's it's
- 19:37still you know it it's still
- 19:40far far from reality where you know
- 19:43we can stand together and shake hands and just look
- 19:46at each other as human beings you know it's it's
- 19:50interesting this was the vision of the writer of course we
- 19:53are the interpreters our job was to
- 19:55interpret his story we did not write the story and this
- 19:59gentleman sam vans the story
- 20:03is the movie his script is based a little bit now i know more about it he's
- 20:07based a little bit on his childhood in the south he was a child in the south
- 20:11i think he's from alabama i don't remember but his childhood in this so it's
- 20:16based on it But his vision was not hateful.
- 20:20He was not, his message was always, this is not about revenge.
- 20:25We are not going to make a movie about revenge.
- 20:27We are going to make a movie about forgiveness.
- 20:31Right, right. He was a special character. I don't know how to describe it. He was such a character.
- 20:39And he was in Vietnam and he came back from Vietnam and then he wrote the script.
- 20:44But this was his vision yes, life was not pleasant for minorities in the south,
- 20:51but I don't want to write a story about revenge, I want to write a story about forgiveness.
- 20:57And you know, he did a beautiful job with it, because you know,
- 20:59my character was one I mean, I wasn't from the south, I was from north.
- 21:04Chicago. I didn't really want it, you know, because I have one line,
- 21:07I'm supposed to take a bunch of country, backwood niggers and soldiers in what?
- 21:13So you can put a medal to your chest? No way. I'm out of here, man.
- 21:18You know, Tony was like, this motherfucker was like, he had to, he had to round him in.
- 21:24And then Alex's character, Alex was on the side of him and trying to always calm my ass. Right.
- 21:31You two guys were like the yin and yin on opposite sides of him. Exactly. Exactly.
- 21:35I mean, even though we were a trio, I was always the one kind of pulling away.
- 21:39Alex would try to help me as Steve was always admonishing me. Right.
- 21:46Julie, she got shot coming out the bank, mate, trying to get away with the money.
- 21:50Hey, hey, hey. Spoiler alert. Spoiler alert.
- 21:55Spoiler alert. But that's right.
- 21:59But it was nice that within the script, you have all kind of this kind of different
- 22:05point of views. That's right.
- 22:07The guy who came from Chicago, your character, that's right
- 22:10character was supposed that he's from the west from let's say
- 22:13it was it was interesting that his plan was to bring the media in
- 22:16like his whole purpose for taking the taking
- 22:20the town was to bring the media spotlight exactly onto the town it's funny today
- 22:26that we live in an age where you know everyone's got you know at least if they
- 22:29got their phone with them they're you know you know whenever there's a disaster
- 22:33or something someone pulls out their phone and they're filming it you You know
- 22:36what I mean? Exactly. It's a different world.
- 22:39But I think that's the thing. That's the thing, too, Ken, I think that's resonating
- 22:43with people when they're seeing the film is that all those things we're talking
- 22:47about, the media now is different because if people had phones,
- 22:50they could be doing that.
- 22:51But the fact that we're talking about bringing the media to bring attention
- 22:56to the atrocity of this racism that was going on in this small town,
- 23:00people can get with that.
- 23:03And I think that's what's making people resonate so much with the film.
- 23:07Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I mean, now everybody has a camera back in 1989.
- 23:13Right. We didn't have cameras. Sam had a camera. Right. And. Yeah.
- 23:18Sam Vance had a choice to tell a story specifically of something he witnessed
- 23:23in his own life, being a Purple Heart veteran and all this other stuff.
- 23:30But that's what blows people's minds. It's like, wow, this has been happening on and on and on and on.
- 23:36We just weren't documenting it. And this movie was hidden.
- 23:40No spoiler, but this movie has quite a twist, two-thirds into it.
- 23:47So we are not going to reveal it. We won't spoil it.
- 23:50But this is, Riverbend is also getting a, Michael is also getting a physical media release too.
- 23:57Yeah. Well, we pushed the date because it was originally going to be February,
- 24:012026. We're moving it to Juneteenth.
- 24:05Oh, that's nice. June 19th is going to be the official release date. Oh, nice.
- 24:11For Riverbend on Blu-ray and we'll be starting to take pre-orders at riverbendrestored.com. Cool.
- 24:19By the time people get a chance to see this, they'll be able to place a pre-order.
- 24:23I'll get a link off you, and we'll whack that in the description of the show.
- 24:27But right now, you can get merch, like mugs, hats, T-shirts,
- 24:32things like that, and then the Blu-ray will be available. You can put your money down. We need it.
- 24:37But June 19th, 2026, Riverbend. Oh, that's amazing. That's beautiful.
- 24:43And aside from the film, Michael, is it going to have any other Oh,
- 24:47we're going to We'd love to come to Australia and show it Wow, yeah.
- 24:53The restoration is beautiful Shout out to Austin Squattery,
- 24:58He did an amazing job with the transfers and the dust removal, supervised by Sam.
- 25:05It's never looked this good. It's never sounded this good. It's impeccable.
- 25:09And we want to take it everywhere. So, yes, there'll be a theatrical window,
- 25:14followed by the DVD release in June. And then we'll continue to show it wherever
- 25:19people want to see it in public, because I think it's really important to do that.
- 25:23Yeah, definitely. Yeah, bring it down under. it's um
- 25:26yeah you know guys what we have discovered since
- 25:30we are busy with it already three years there are legions of
- 25:34steve james fans all over the world mainly
- 25:37because of his action movies you know that's right really followers
- 25:41and because he passed away so everything together and and they will be thrilled
- 25:45because of this for this blu-ray and then we have to reach other other type
- 25:50of audiences of course we have to spread the word about this movie but we already
- 25:55have a very good base of fans who are really waiting,
- 25:58eagerly waiting for this because they're Steve James fans, let's call it. Yeah, that's great.
- 26:04Tickets are selling fast at the Arrow Theater, the LA premiere,
- 26:08October 14th. It's a Tuesday night.
- 26:11Yeah, and it's a one-of-a-kind night.
- 26:15So if you can make it, please get your tickets and come. All the stars will be here.
- 26:20Yeah, if you can't make it, we'll be live streaming on my YouTube channel, the Q&A.
- 26:25Sweet ass yeah but i
- 26:28can't mention one more thing ken you're right
- 26:31not subject really you
- 26:34know i i was involved in many movies directing mainly action about 25 movies
- 26:38main most of them are action movies and in action movies the acting is not the
- 26:43important part the action the acting in this movie every time i watch the movie
- 26:50throws me back on the chair there is some good.
- 26:55Good acting in this movie i'm telling you guys will see it on the 14th on a week everybody,
- 27:00even the bad guys effective with the years 35 years the acting in this movie is amazing,
- 27:07top top top notch you will see you guys will see it on the yeah well i'm just
- 27:12i don't take away your interview but i'm just curious like what was i mean margaret
- 27:16was supposed to join us i mean she's an oscar nominee what was she like on the
- 27:20set oh man margaret was golly man it was It's great to be with Margaret Avery.
- 27:24I mean, I was like, wow, Margaret Avery is in this movie.
- 27:30And Margaret is such a talent, such a force, and beautiful.
- 27:35Oh, gosh. It is. I've seen Margaret over different periods of time around at the Roby Theater in L.A.
- 27:42As such. And she knows my wife really, really well, Viola.
- 27:46But Margaret, it was amazing to work with her.
- 27:50And to be around her when we were shooting this film. And obviously,
- 27:54ultimate professional.
- 27:56And, you know, and she did a great job in this movie.
- 28:00And so, pleasure. That scene when the girl comes into a house and she holds
- 28:04him with the shotgun is pretty powerful. Yeah.
- 28:09She was great. I think we all had a crush on her when she arrived.
- 28:12We did. I mean, she was so beautiful. We didn't tell her.
- 28:15You know, we didn't tell her. But I think we all did. And I have had the great
- 28:20honor of being on stage with Margaret.
- 28:22So being on stage with her, as well as being able to be in Riverbend.
- 28:26This was after Riverbend that we did No Place to Be Somebody on stage here in L.A.
- 28:32And, man, she's just, she's a chameleon.
- 28:35I mean, she could transform into any character.
- 28:40She just had that gift, that rare gift. She could turn it on and turn it off.
- 28:44And I'm telling you, being around her, Steve, and then Julius,
- 28:49and I was so green. I mean, I was green like AstroTurf.
- 28:53I was so green. It was just a thrill.
- 28:56Alex, you guys remember also Tony, the sheriff. Yes.
- 29:00He played the evil character. Tony, he was so green.
- 29:05Is Tony still here? Is he gone? No, he's gone. He passed on. He's gone.
- 29:09He was Sheriff J. Oh, he was.
- 29:14He was. He was. He helped fuel us just by his nastiness. Yeah. So nasty.
- 29:22But he wasn't like that off camera. He was not like that at all.
- 29:25He was a gentle guy. Yeah. Yeah. Totally different off camera. Yeah. He was great.
- 29:30He was great. Golly. What a time. What a time.
- 29:36Yes. Riverbend. Julius Tennant. Alex Morris.
- 29:40The Mighty Sam Furstenberg. Michael J. Dennis, Fantastic Chaps,
- 29:46All Fantastic Film. My review will be coming to filmthreat.com,
- 29:52so keep your eye open for that.
- 29:54But if you are in the Santa Monica area on Tuesday,
- 30:00October 14th, 2025 at 7.30pm, you can check out the never-before-projected 35mm
- 30:09print. It's a fantastic movie.
- 30:12Riverbend Steve James, What a Man, What a Titan, Margaret Avery,
- 30:17Fantastic Film Sam Furstenberg, and my other guests, Julius Tennant, Alex Morris.
- 30:23Follow the links in the description, ladies and gentlemen. Riverbend.
- 30:27It is simply incredible. Check the links in the description.
- 30:33And as always, my little Eugenites, thank you for listening to us on Spotify
- 30:39or wherever you choose to listen to your favorite podcasts.
- 30:42I'm Kent Hill, and until next time, you've been listening to Cinema Zero Games.