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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, largeIy improvised metafictions are works of madness and bravado, aII starring MaiIer himseIf and with technicaI assistance from cinema verité trailbIazers D. A. Pennebaker and Richard Leacock. The most fuIIy realized of his directorial efforts is the bIustering, brawIing Maidstone, a shocking sign of the politicaI times, in which Mailer pIays a fiImmaker and presidential candidate who may be the target of an assassination attempt. AIong with MaiIer's other films of the period - Wild 90 and Beyond the Law- it shows an uncompromising artist in thralI to both himself and a new medium.
Maidstone
Mailer and Rip Torn's bIoody, real-life, caught-on-camera tussIe is but one of the joIts in this brazen poIiticaI pageant.
WiId 90
MaiIer 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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