Film about environmental activist coming to SLT
The Tahoe Area Sierra Club is bringing “Wrenched”, a documentary film about Edward Abbey, to South Lake Tahoe on Nov. 6.
Abbey authored 21 books in his lifetime, including “Desert Solitaire”, “The Brave Cowboy”, and “The Fool’s Progress”. His comic novels “The Monkey Wrench Gang” and “Hayduke Lives” helped inspire a whole generation of environmental activism. A writer in the mold of Twain and Thoreau, Abbey was a larger-than-life figure as big as the West itself.
Filmmaker ML Lincoln’s documentary “Wrenched” reveals how Abbey’s anarchistic spirit and riotous novels influenced and helped guide the emerging environmental movement of the 1970s and ’80s. Through interviews, archival footage, and re-enactments, Lincoln captures the outrage of Abbey’s friends, who were the original eco-warriors.
The film will be shown at Unity at the Lake, 1195 Rufus Allen Blvd., South Lake Tahoe at 7pm. Cost is $5.
YES, this will be a great documentary to see, indeed!
Ed Abbey coined my moniker “Nature Bats Last”. He is a Hero to me and his books abundant in my library.
I may be taking a drive to the Lake in November.
Number one of my four favorite books of all time is Desert Solitaire. I’ve owned about five paperback copies and, over the years, given all of them away to lost souls who hadn’t read it. I’m down to my last copy – a hardback that ain’t goin’ nowhere.
My second favorite Abbey book (but not in my top four books) is Black Sun, now back in print. Lots of folks don’t like it but I re-read it a couple of years ago and teared up all over again.
Abbey on Black Sun:
“Like most honest novels, Black Sun is partly autobiographical, mostly invention, and entirely true. The voice that speaks in this book is the passionate voice of the forest,the madness of desire, and the joy of love, and the anguish of final loss.”
The man did have a knack for writing.
Also, the DVD of Wrenched can be had for a 40 dollar donation to Indiegogo. Whatever that is. Here’s a preview of the movie, regardless of where you see it.
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/wrenched-get-the-dvd#/
Great review copper. Another obscure and interesting book, The Brave Cowboy,
was made into a movie featuring Kirk douglas. I remember seeing it years ago and reading the book. Apparently the book is difficult to locate. I met ed abbey back in 1985 at a EF gathering in Utah. He was quite “crusty” and such an impressive, tall, gangly guy. An American Hero IMHO