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★★★★

“A look at the man and his failed presidential run that is not what you would expect and is something greater than you hoped.”

–  Steve Kopian, Unseen Films

“Szold's oeuvre doesn't revisit the events...but reconstructs them, letting the footage, and the people recorded, speak for itself... Szold edits the material with a sense for dramatic set-ups and comic climaxes, delivering a similar rollercoaster of wacky unraveling that Erroll Morris achieved.”

–  Martin Kudlac, ScreenAnarchy

“Larry Flynt for President contains all the lurid and lascivious details one would expect from the boisterous publisher of Hustler, but Szold crafts the older footage into a broader scope, reflecting on the passage of time and political landscape since his run. At times as gaudy as Flynt’s gold-plated wheelchair, it also depicts the dream of a country that refuses to sit down and remain silent.”

- Rob Rector, FilmThreat

"Hindsight does little to diminish the perception of Flynt as an exceptional public figure, one who exchanged the millions he made hawking smut of a graphic nature then unprecedented outside of, say, Sweden, for the opportunity to harass, savage and degrade all manner of political and religious leaders and institutions. The film thoughtfully details the greater price that Flynt’s obsessions cost him."

– Steve Dollar, Filmmaker Magazine

“PROVOCATIVE AND PRESCIENT.”

“Szold gamely strikes a similar balance of thoughtful and absurd with her documentary. The film is fast-paced and generally upbeat.”

“Wonderfully free of the Hollywood spit-and-polish. It’s raw, provocative, and often hilarious.”

– Robert Ham, Pop Matters

“Nadia Szold’s rip-roaringly hilarious documentary chronicles the manic months during 1983 when the Hustler Magazine mogul tried to primary Ronald Reagan in a gloriously self-immolating attack on hypocrisy, propriety and good taste.”

–  Sean Burns, Spliced Personality

“Hilarious...wild to see a time when trolling was used for good.”

“Interesting and entertaining.”

“Behind the outlandish gimmicks, there is a sincerity to Flynt that makes his story worth watching.”

–  Joshua A. Guttman, The Knockturnal

“Very entertaining thanks to its subject’s larger-than-life personality and the often absurd antics in which he involved himself. But beyond that, it’s an interesting exploration of the issue of freedom of speech and the press, which has always been a hot-button topic.”

–  Sean Boelman, Disappointment Media

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PRESS CLIPS

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The Filmmaker Four: Nadia Szold | Berkshire International Film Festival | 09.03.2021
Nadia Szold has been a staple of the Berkshires film and theater scene for years—at age 17, after reading “Waiting for Godot,” she formed the theater troupe Cojones Company in Great Barrington, and then founded Cinema Imperfecta, the TKTKTK. Her first feature, Joy de V., premiered at Slamdance in 2013 to quite a bit of critical acclaim as well as a nod from the Jury. Larry Flynt for President, her first documentary and her first BIFF film, premiered at Tribeca this year.

Variety: 10 Producers to Watch in 2021 | Variety | 07.01.2021

Tribeca 2021 Review: LARRY FLYNT FOR PRESIDENT, Eerily Prescient, Outlandish Time Capsule Director Nadia Szold reconstructs Larry Flynt's infamous run for presidential nomination from never-before-seen archival footage. And it's stranger than fiction. | Screen Anarchy | by Martin Kudlac | 06.28.2021

New 'Larry Flynt for President' Doc Spotlights Wild Political Saga | XBIZ | by Dave Parkman | 06.28.2021

[Tribeca ’21] ‘Larry Flynt for President’ review: Shameless smut peddler or voice for the voiceless? Moving the repressive hand of government from the crotch of America | AIPT | by Nathaniel Muir | 06.25.2021

Tribeca Film Festival 2021 Wrap-Up: The Novice, The First Step, 7 Days, and more | Tilt Magazine | by Stephen Silver | 06.24.2021

“Here’s a rollicking documentary depicting the time Larry Flynt ran for president in 1984. Assembled from footage of a documentary begun in 1983 and then abandoned, we see Flynt going toe to toe with the then-emergent religious right in the United States.” 

Festivals & Awards: A Look Back at Tribeca 2021: The Documentary Features | RogerEbert.com | June 23, 2021

Crooked Marquee’s Tribeca Festival 2021 Diary | Crooked Marquee | by Jason Bailey | 06.21.2021

‘Larry Flynt for President’ Review: Yes, This Really Happened | Variety | by Owen Gleiberman | 06.21.2021

“… in Nadia Szold’s lively archival documentary “Larry Flynt for President,” the Flynt campaign now looks like a trashy, penny-ante anticipation of the 2016 Donald Trump campaign — or, at least, certain aspects of it. It was a mud-slinging circus, an all-out assault on decorum in politics, though with a serious issue at its heart: Flynt’s absolutist defense of the First Amendment.”

Tribeca Film Festival Film Review: ”Larry Flynt for President” Is A Wild Goddamn Ride | The Knockturnal | June 19, 2021

Notes from Tribeca 2021: Week 2 | Digby’s Hullabaloo | June 19, 2021

Tribeca 2021: ‘Larry Flynt for President’ Is Provocative and Prescient Nadia Szold’s found-footage documentary Larry Flynt for President looks back at the Hustler publisher’s 1983 run for the White House. Pop Matters | | 06.17.2021

Critic’s Notebook: Tribeca 2021 Docs about Larry Flynt, Anthony Bourdain, A Child’s Death and China’s Industrial March | Filmmaker Magazine | June 17, 2021

Tribeca 2021: The Kids, Italian Studies, Larry Flynt for President | Spliced Personality | by Sean Burns | 06.16.2021

“Spite is an incredible motivator. Sometimes it can change the world, or at least save the First Amendment. Nadia Szold’s rip-roaringly hilarious documentary chronicles the manic months during 1983 when the Hustler Magazine mogul tried to primary Ronald Reagan in a gloriously self-immolating attack on hypocrisy, propriety and good taste. Culled from a treasure trove of footage shot at the time by a camera crew following Flynt, Szold wisely relies on semi-contemporaneous interviews with other mighty, civic-minded muckrakers like Frank Zappa, keeping all the insanity in the present tense to preserve the hurtling momentum with which Flynt roared back into public life after five years lost recovering from the assassination attempt that left him in a wheelchair …”

Larry Flynt for President | Tribeca Festival | Film Forward | by Kent Turner | 06.14.2021

“There are few political documentaries as entertaining, timely, and, well, raunchy as Larry Flynt for President, which had its world premiere at this year’s Tribeca Festival. An ill-fated campaign for the 1984 Republican presidential candidacy is the jumping-off point in this compact biography of the self-described “fabulously wealthy pornographer.”

Tribeca Festival 2021 WORLD PREMIERE: Nadia Szold; LARRY FLYNT FOR PRESIDENT | The New Current | June 12, 2021

Larry Flynt for President | Film Threat | by Rob Rector | 06.12.2021

“Larry Flynt for President contains all the lurid and lascivious details one would expect from the boisterous publisher of Hustler, but Szold crafts the older footage into a broader scope, reflecting on the passage of time and political landscape since his run. At times as gaudy as Flynt’s gold-plated wheelchair, it also depicts the dream of a country that refuses to sit down and remain silent.”

Cultural, Political and Moral Clashes at Tribeca Film Festival ‘21 | Brazilian Press | 06.11.2021

2021 Tribeca Film Festival: Larry Flynt for President Review | Big Picture Big Sound | 06.09.2021

12 Films and VR Works to Catch at the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival | Filmmaker Magazine | 06.09.2021

The Tribeca 2021 Curtain Raiser | Unseen Films | 06.06.2021

TRIBECA 2021 WORLD PREMIERE – LARRY FLYNT FOR PRESIDENT | OrcaSound | 06.01.2021

Nadia Szold’s documentary feature on one of America’s most controversial defenders of free speech | The Hollywood Times | 05.27.2021

Larry Flynt for President: Nadia Szold’s New Documentary | Please Kill Me | by Zack Kopp | 05.25.2021

“There’s nothing more encouraging than a raucous audience of college students laughing and hollering at a test screening,” Szold says. “We screened a rough cut for around 70 students, the majority having never heard of Larry Flynt. If the film entertains and provokes intelligent questions from kids, you’re gonna be OK.

Austin Chronicle Review: Larry Flynt for President The Austin Chronicle by Richard Whittaker 10.25.2021

“There's not even a hint of a suggestion that a Flynt presidency would have been a good idea, but Szold undoubtedly captures that moment when a pill-popping and potty-mouthed pornographer became the hero American free speech needed.”