Obscene

Barney Rosset, the founder of Grove Press and The Evergreen Review, was a leading campaigner against obscenity laws - it was Rosset who was responsible for bringing I Am Curious (Yellow) (1967) to cinema screens, as well as the work of Allen Ginsberg, William S Burroughs and Henry Miller to bookstores.

It was not an easy furrow to plough. Rosset endured death threats and constant government surveillance as he continued his campaign of (in his words) "nourishing the accidental."

This documentary paints the flamboyantly-hued portrait of his life, structured around an interview between Rosset and Al Goldstein (the controversial publisher of Screw magazine) and drawing together many counter-cultural figures (including Burroughs, John Waters and Gore Vidal) to applaud Mr Rosset's work. It makes for a rather gorgeous film, in fact - warm and tender, but also fiercely inspirational. ·