Eclipse Series 35: Maidstone And Other Films By Norman Mailer (Criterion Collection) On DVD
Actor: Rip Torn, Norman Mailer, Buzz Farber, Mickey Knox, Francis Xavier Pope
Director: Norman Mailer
Genre: Drama
Year: N/A
Studio: Criterion Collection
Length: 270
Released: August 28, 2012
Rating: Unrated (Video)
Format: DVD
Misc: Color
Language:English
Subtitles :English
DESCRIPTION:
Norman Mailer is remembered for many things—his novels, his essays, his articles, his activism, his ego. One largely forgotten chapter of his life, however, is his late-sixties, headlong, kamikaze-style plunge into making experimental films. These rough-hewn, self-financed, largely improvised metafictions are works of madness and bravado, all starring Mailer himself and with technical assistance from cinema verité trailblazers D. A. Pennebaker and Richard Leacock. The fullest realization of his directorial efforts is the blustering, brawling Maidstone, a shocking sign of the political times in which Mailer plays a filmmaker and presidential candidate who may be the target of an assassination attempt. Along with Mailer’s other films of the period—Wild 90 and Beyond the Law—it shows an uncompromising artist in thrall to both himself and a new medium.
Actor: Rip Torn, Norman Mailer, Buzz Farber, Mickey Knox, Francis Xavier Pope
Director: Norman Mailer
Genre: Drama
Year: N/A
Studio: Criterion Collection
Length: 270
Released: August 28, 2012
Rating: Unrated (Video)
Format: DVD
Misc: Color
Language:English
Subtitles :English
DESCRIPTION:
Norman Mailer is remembered for many things—his novels, his essays, his articles, his activism, his ego. One largely forgotten chapter of his life, however, is his late-sixties, headlong, kamikaze-style plunge into making experimental films. These rough-hewn, self-financed, largely improvised metafictions are works of madness and bravado, all starring Mailer himself and with technical assistance from cinema verité trailblazers D. A. Pennebaker and Richard Leacock. The fullest realization of his directorial efforts is the blustering, brawling Maidstone, a shocking sign of the political times in which Mailer plays a filmmaker and presidential candidate who may be the target of an assassination attempt. Along with Mailer’s other films of the period—Wild 90 and Beyond the Law—it shows an uncompromising artist in thrall to both himself and a new medium.
| Product Name | Eclipse Series 35: Maidstone And Other Films By Norman Mailer (Criterion Collection) On DVD |
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