Three of the women were convicted of hooliganism for the second performance; two are still imprisoned. The rest, fewer than a dozen, have carried on, masked crusaders for feminism and free speech. Their outlaw status has become a rallying cry for dissent in Russia and abroad, backed by the likes of Paul McCartney, Madonna and Amnesty International, and an unexpected display of global girl power. Without fanfare, two members of the collective slipped into New York in the last week, to help promote the film and meet, undercover, with supporters. It is their first time in America.
List of films considered the worst
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Historically, the British musical has been intertwined with British music, drawing on music hall in the s and the pop charts in the 50s — low-budget films of provincial interest and nothing to trouble the bosses at MGM. In the late 60s, however, the genre enjoyed a brief, high-profile heyday, and between Tommy Steele in Half a Sixpence and Richard Attenborough's star-studded Oh! What A Lovely War came the biggest of them all: Oliver! It seems strange that Charles Dickens's dark tale of deprivation — our young hero Oliver Twist Mark Lester ends up in a den of thieves, run by the louche Fagin Ron Moody , after being sold into child labour by the owner of a workhouse — began shooting during the summer of love, but Reed's lavish, cast-of-thousands approach does reflect something of the people-power concerns of the times, notably the "tribalism" of the Broadway musical Hair. The costume design too has elements of shabby chic; the boys have long, unkempt hair, and unlike David Lean's austere Oliver Twist of , the snatch-and-grab-it world of Fagin's lost boys actually seems like fun.
The films listed below have been cited by a variety of notable critics in varying media sources as being among the worst films ever made. The story is a loose adaptation of the Edgar Allan Poe story " The Black Cat " and follows a vaudeville impersonator who becomes an assistant to a mad scientist. Danny Peary believes that Maniac is the worst film ever made, Charlie Jane Anders of Gawker Media ' s io9 described it as "possibly the worst movie in history" and Chicago Tribune critic Michael Wilmington wrote that it may be the worst film he had ever seen, writing: "There are some voyages into ineptitude, like Dwain Esper's anti-classic Maniac, that defy all reason.