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Opposition Compositions: Treasures IV: American Avant Garde Film 1947-1986 on DVD
“Avant garde filmmaking has been defined almost entirely in opposition to the Hollywood mainstream.”
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DVD & Blu-ray · Experimental & Underground
“Avant garde filmmaking has been defined almost entirely in opposition to the Hollywood mainstream.”
“Story, characters, and other reassuring elements are simply obliterated by what appears to be Maybury’s elaborate private mythology.”
Directors · Experimental & Underground
Last night, I had the pleasure of attending a screening of some of Kenneth Anger’s most recent short films – hosted by Mr. Anger himself. The legendary “underground filmmaker” was[…]
Books · Experimental & Underground
Art in Cinema: Documents Toward a History of the Film Society, Scott MacDonald. Philadelphia: Temple UP, 2006. Hardcover, $63.50, 465pp. ISBN: 1-592-134254 Reading the more or less official correspondence of a film[…]
“It is an opportunity to film people and events that could be recalled at any time to affirm, lament, or challenge a moment in time in this troubled region.”
Experimental & Underground · Reviews
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSZYkv4Ad2Q] Canadian Guy Maddin is virtually unique among contemporary filmmakers in that despite having made nine features – including The Saddest Music in the World, Brand Upon the Brain, and[…]
Directors · Experimental & Underground
Entering into negotiations with executives at Time, Inc. over the sale of a film he’d shot in Dallas on November 22, 1963, Abraham Zapruder was adamant that his 26.6 seconds[…]
Directors · Experimental & Underground
“Watkins’ filmmaking bravely seeks an insistence on personal truth his own and the viewer’s.”
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUpUKcCrBP8] When I first saw Rose Hobart (excerpted above) back in the 1970s, it was a revelation to me. Its maker, Joseph Cornell (1903-1972), was an American surrealist who specialized[…]
DVD & Blu-ray · Experimental & Underground · Reviews
Autobiography sometimes trumps art in these uneven works Su Friedrich is a disciplined and highly skilled filmmaker who teaches school (film and video production at Princeton, to be precise) and[…]
Directors · Experimental & Underground
pa·limp·sest: n., Writing material (as a parchment or tablet) used one or more times after earlier writing has been erased; something having usually diverse layers or aspects apparent beneath the[…]
Activist & Political · Documentaries · Experimental & Underground
Navigating a haunted, and haunting, world In 1994, film historian and programmer Jenni Olson’s friend Mark Finch, a critic who was co-director with Olson of the San Francisco International Lesbian[…]
Essays · Experimental & Underground
As the covert bottom-line interests of capitalist film distribution circumscribe our viewing options as much as overt censorship ever could, we should earnestly applaud the arrival of the new “INDEX”[…]
Directors · Drama · DVD & Blu-ray · Experimental & Underground · Reviews
The master of improv gets his due courtesy of Criterion’s extras-laden box set
Drama · Experimental & Underground
On the seventh day … he should have kept working
Drama · Experimental & Underground
Von Trier’s America may be too cartoonish for its own good
DVD & Blu-ray · Experimental & Underground
A Cruel and Rebellious Plot to Pervert the Minds of Viewers to Unholy Uses
Directors · Experimental & Underground · Festivals & Awards
Painter, photographer, sculptor, composer, musician and here, seminal experimental filmmaker
“An infinite number of possible worlds … and this is the worst one.”
Experimental & Underground · SF & Fantasy
Through the looking glass darkly