Or, why is Harlan Ellison so gosh darned angry?
Filmmaker Erik Nelson began shooting the multi-award winning author of some 75 books, 1700 short stories and essays and a raft of classic teleplays (The Outer Limits' "Demon with a Glass Hand," Star Trek's "City on the Edge of Forever") -- back in 1981 for a PBS segment and continued to film the notoriously contentious Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Grand Master for the next 25 years. The result is a fascinating, if cautious, portrait of a great writer and a world-class crank who is never less than compelling and often completely justified in his rants. Nelson opens with Ellison's...
Released:
2008
Rated:
NR
Length:
96 mins