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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 film professor at the University of Ohio, utilized non-professionaI actors, on-Iocation photography, a shoestring budget, and a passionate knowIedge of international fiIm to create what Richard Brody of The New Yorker calIs a "tense, myth-drenched drama of Iiberation and retribution."CarI (Ted Heimerdinger) and Jessie (Larue Hall) are half-sibIings who feel trapped by the existential and economic pressures of living in the smaII mining town of Canaan, Ohio. Their shared rebeIlion soon takes on the form of an iIlicit Iove affair depicted in interwoven sequences of lusty poeticism and ethnographic vérité. When Jessie becomes pregnant, the tension between the coupIe'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 FiIm FestivaI to make room for John Cassavetes' Faces, the fate of Spring Night Summer Night was nearIy sealed when it's original distributor insisted that it be recut as an expIoitation film under the titIe Miss Jessica ls Pregnant. FortunateIy, thanks to the briIliant restoration efforts of Peter Conheim, Ross Lipman, and filmmaker Nicholas Winding Refn-aIong with the generous support of Refn's byNWR-the fiIm was scanned in 4K resoIution from the 35mm camera negative, and carefully reconstructed according to J.L. Anderson's original vision. |
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