Eclipse Series 35 Maidstone and Other Films by Norman Mailer Criterion Collection DVD with Rip Torn, Norman Mailer, Buzz Farber (Unrated)

Search - Eclipse Series 35: Maidstone and Other Films by Norman Mailer (Criterion Collection) on DVD

Eclipse Series 35 Maidstone and Other Films by Norman Mailer
Criterion Collection
Actors: Rip Torn, Norman Mailer, Buzz Farber, Mickey Knox, Francis Xavier Pope
Director: Norman Mailer

UR 2012 4hr 30min

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 ... more »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. Two-DVD Box 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 Mailer?s own subconscious? (Time), becomes something like a documentary on its own making when costar Rip Torn breaks the fourth wall in one of cinema?s most alarming on-screen outbursts. 1970 105 minutes Color Monaural 1.33:1 aspect ratio Wild 90 Norman Mailer?s 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 Mailer?s belief that we?re 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

Larger Image

Movie Details

Actors: Rip Torn, Norman Mailer, Buzz Farber, Mickey Knox, Francis Xavier Pope
Director: Norman Mailer
Studio: Criterion Collection
Format: DVD - Color - Subtitled
DVD Release Date: 08/28/2012
Release Year: 2012
Run Time: 4hr 30min
Screens: Color
Number of Discs: 2
SwapaDVD Credits: 2
Total Copies: 0
Members Wishing: 5
Edition: Criterion Collection
MPAA Rating: Unrated
Languages: English
Subtitles: English

Eclipse 36 Three Wicked Melodramas from Gainsborough Pictures The Man in Grey Madonna of the Seven Moons The Wicked Lady
Criterion Collection
Directors: Leslie Arliss, Arthur Crabtree

NR 2012 5hr 30min

Eclipse Series 33: Up All Night with Robert Downey Sr. (Babo 73, Chafed Elbows, No More Excuses, Putney Swope, Two Tons of Turquoise to Taos Tonight) (Criterion Collection)

Eclipse Series 33 Up All Night with Robert Downey Sr
Babo 73, Chafed Elbows, No More Excuses, Putney Swope, Two Tons of Turquoise to Taos Tonight
Director: Robert Downey Sr.

2012 5hr 3min

Eclipse Series 37: When Horror Came to Shochiku (The X from Outer Space; Goke, Body Snatcher from Hell; The Living Skeleton; Genocide) (Criterion Collection)

Eclipse Series 37 When Horror Came to Shochiku
The X from Outer Space; Goke, Body Snatcher from Hell; The Living Skeleton; Genocide
Directors: Kazui Nihonmatsu, Hajime Sato, Hiroshi Matsuno

2012 5hr 36min

Judex
Blu-ray
Director: Georges Franju

NR 2014 1hr 37min

Eclipse Series 34 Jean Gremillon During the Occupation
Remorques, Lumiere d'ete, Le ciel est a vous
Director: Jean Gremillon

2012 5hr 1min

Search - Eclipse Series 35: Maidstone and Other Films by Norman Mailer (Criterion Collection) on DVD

Movie Details

Similar Movies