If you've always hated Pauline Kael anyway and you've been mildly freaked because your 5-year-old kid sister just completed her 3rd on-the-street-every-inch-true-to-life documentary, then you will find comfort as well as real hope between these covers. This is one of those rare books on film that actually comes out and says what up till now you felt only you and Godard understood: that Film is Revolution not A Wave_and its credo is the novelty of just going out and doing it. Now that we have been amply and repeatedly assured that we are on the threshold of a technological and aesthetic revolution in movies which will inevitably restructure human consciousness and understanding, this book says that the new sensibility obviously would be awfully nice in 70mm Panavision but that it will work in Super 8 too. Which is just another way of saying, Hey, remember 2001 is probably the most awesome underground movie ever made ($10,500,000) before, lean and crazed, you sell your soul for a jr. apprenticeship on Mary Poppins. The 16 interviews that follow are a cross-section of independent directors— all of whom are just as interested in finding a new life style as a new film style. They are all, in one way or another, outsiders from Jim McBride (Greetings) whose $2500 1st film still hadn’t been shown theatrically 2 years after he made it, to Roman Polanski who says definitely that he’s not obsessed with the bizarre and that his next film is going to be about the Donner Pass Cannibals, to Andy Warhol who says that he’s still learning how to use a camera and that they haven’t really made a “‘movie” yet. The book is not a defense of cinema vs. movies nor does it go through the theoretic/aesthetic trauma of The Underground vs. Hollywood. What it says is that personal films are not sprung full-blown from the head of the inspired amateur with his 16mm Arriflex and Nagra tape recorder slung over his shoulder.
[Barbara DeZonia, The Last Whole Earth Catalog, p.349]

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PART ONE: THE OUTSIDERS
PART TWO: THE EUROPEAN EXPERIENCE
PART THREE: FREE AGENTS WITHIN THE SYSTEM

出版年：1970年
言語：英語
ページ数：316ページ
サイズ：14cm×21cm×2.7cm

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