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Rip Torn,
Norman Mailer,
Mickey Knox
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Norman Mailer
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: Not Rated
: Criterion
: Drama, Suspense/Thriller, Experimental/Avant-Garde, Criterion Collection
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Eclipse Series 35: Maidstone and Other Films by Norman Mailer (Disc 1 of 2) (1967)
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 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 verite´ trailblazers D. A. Pennebaker and Richard Leacock. The most fully realized 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 Mailers other films of the periodWild 90 and Beyond the Law -- it shows an uncompromising artist in thrall to both himself and a new medium.
Two Disc Collector's Set Includes:
Maidstone
Over a booze-fueled, increasingly hectic four-day shoot in the Hamptons, Norman Mailer and his cast and crew spontaneously unloaded onto film this lurid and loony chronicle of U.S. presidential candidate and filmmaker Norman T. Kingsley debating and attacking his hangers-on and enemies. This gonzo narrative, an inkblot test of Mailers own subconscious (Time), becomes something like a documentary on its own making when costar Rip Torn breaks the fourth wall in one of cinemas most alarming on-screen outbursts.
1970
- 105 minutes
- Color
- Monaural
- 1.33:1 aspect ratio
Wild 90
Norman Mailers first filmmaking effort stars the director and his two longtime creative collaborators Buzz Farber and Mickey Knox as a trio of gangsters holed up in a ramshackle New York apartment, drinking, braying, and fighting. Mailer once claimed he viewed making movies as free psychoanalysis, and this bristly, stripped-down experiment in improvisation shows a filmmaker baring himself for all to see.
1967
- 81 minutes
- Black & White
- Monaural
- 1.33:1 aspect ratio
Beyond the Law
Norman Mailers belief that were all either police or criminals at heart was the impetus for his second film, which takes place over the course of one feverish night in a Manhattan police precinct and neighboring bar. The rough texture of the black-and-white stock and the intense depiction of the police lineup process lend the film a rugged, journalistic feel. In addition to Mailer, who casts himself as tough-guy Irish cop Francis Xavier Pope, Beyond the Law features Rip Torn and George Plimpton.
1968
- 84 minutes
- Black & White
- Monaural
- 1.33:1 aspect ratio
Eclipse Series 35: Maidstone and Other Films by Norman Mailer (Disc 2 of 2) (1967)
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