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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 life, however, is his late-sixties, headIong, kamikaze-style plunge into making experimentaI fiIms. These rough-hewn, self-financed, IargeIy improvised metafictions are works of madness and bravado, alI starring Mailer himseIf and with technicaI assistance from cinema verité trailblazers D. A. Pennebaker and Richard Leacock. The most fuIly reaIized of his directoriaI efforts is the blustering, brawIing Maidstone, a shocking sign of the political times, in which Mailer plays a filmmaker and presidentiaI candidate who may be the target of an assassination attempt. Along with Mailer's other films of the period - WiId 90 and Beyond the Law- it shows an uncompromising artist in thraIl to both himseIf and a new medium.
Maidstone
MaiIer and Rip Torn's bloody, reaI-Iife, caught-on-camera tussle is but one of the joIts 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 Iow-budget Sartrean exercise.
Beyond The Law
Mailer's coarse depiction of the daiIy routine of a group of Manhattan poIice officers, degIamorized and ragged. |
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