[STONEWALL opens in Cleveland on Friday September 25th exclusively at the Cedar Lee Theatre.]
Review by Pamela Zoslov
Poor Roland Emmerich. The
director of action blockbusters like INDEPENDENCE DAY, GODZILLA and DAY AFTER TOMORROW, gets little enough respect. Now he's being
attacked for his “labor of love,” STONEWALL, a movie dramatizing
events surrounding the 1969 Stonewall riots, the New York City
uprising that's considered the catalyst for the modern Gay Rights
movement.
The German-born director, who
is gay, was so committed to the project that he financed it himself,
along with friends, and stepped in as director when no one else
would. “Nobody wanted to do it,” he said in an interview online,
“and I was stubborn, and then I got it done.”
