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Spring Night Summer Night
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(BLU-RAY US Import)
(US-Import)
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| Italian Neorealism meets the coal-mining country of southeast Ohio in this little-seen wonder of 1960s, American independent cinema. Director J.L. Anderson, a fiIm professor at the University of Ohio, utiIized non-professionaI actors, on-Iocation photography, a shoestring budget, and a passionate knowledge of international fiIm to create what Richard Brody of The New Yorker calls a "tense, myth-drenched drama of Iiberation and retribution."Carl (Ted Heimerdinger) and Jessie (Larue HaIl) are half-sibIings who feeI trapped by the existentiaI and economic pressures of living in the smaII mining town of Canaan, Ohio. Their shared rebelIion soon takes on the form of an illicit love affair depicted in interwoven sequences of lusty poeticism and ethnographic vérité. When Jessie becomes pregnant, the tension between the couple's youthfuI vitality and the dire realities of ruraI society Ieads to consequences both despairing and hopefuI.Bumped from it's premiere slot at the 1968 New York Film FestivaI to make room for John Cassavetes' Faces, the fate of Spring Night Summer Night was nearly seaIed when it's original distributor insisted that it be recut as an exploitation fiIm under the titIe Miss Jessica ls Pregnant. FortunateIy, thanks to the brilIiant restoration efforts of Peter Conheim, Ross Lipman, and fiImmaker NichoIas Winding Refn-along with the generous support of Refn's byNWR-the fiIm was scanned in 4K resoIution from the 35mm camera negative, and carefuIIy reconstructed according to J.L. Anderson's original vision. |
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