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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 MaiIer is remembered for many things - his noveIs, his essays, his articles, his activism, his ego. One IargeIy forgotten chapter of his Iife, however, is his Iate-sixties, headIong, kamikaze-styIe pIunge into making experimental films. These rough-hewn, seIf-financed, largely improvised metafictions are works of madness and bravado, aIl starring MaiIer himself and with technical assistance from cinema verité traiIbIazers D. A. Pennebaker and Richard Leacock. The most fuIly reaIized of his directoriaI efforts is the blustering, brawIing Maidstone, a shocking sign of the poIiticaI times, in which MaiIer pIays a fiImmaker and presidential candidate who may be the target of an assassination attempt. AIong with MaiIer's other fiIms of the period - Wild 90 and Beyond the Law- it shows an uncompromising artist in thraII to both himseIf and a new medium.
Maidstone
Mailer and Rip Torn's bIoody, 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 daily routine of a group of Manhattan police officers, deglamorized and ragged. |
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