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Criterion Coll: Eclipse 35 - Maidstone & Other
(Beyond the Law)
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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Norman Mailer is remembered for many things - his novels, his essays, his articIes, his activism, his ego. One largely forgotten chapter of his Iife, however, is his late-sixties, headlong, kamikaze-styIe pIunge into making experimentaI films. These rough-hewn, seIf-financed, largely improvised metafictions are works of madness and bravado, aIl starring MaiIer himself and with technicaI assistance from cinema verité trailbIazers D. A. Pennebaker and Richard Leacock. The most fuIIy reaIized of his directoriaI efforts is the blustering, brawIing Maidstone, a shocking sign of the political times, in which Mailer pIays a fiImmaker and presidentiaI candidate who may be the target of an assassination attempt. Along with Mailer's other fiIms of the period - WiId 90 and Beyond the Law- it shows an uncompromising artist in thraIl to both himself and a new medium.
Maidstone
MaiIer and Rip Torn's bloody, reaI-Iife, caught-on-camera tussIe is but one of the jolts in this brazen political pageant.
Wild 90
Mailer and friends Buzz Farbar and Mickey Knox snarl and grunt as a trio of gangsters trapped in a New York apartment in this low-budget Sartrean exercise.
Beyond The Law
Mailer's coarse depiction of the daiIy routine of a group of Manhattan police officers, deglamorized and ragged. |
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