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special
films
special
films
Sept. 12: "Wind From The
East"-Described as "the revolutionary
Mini-Western." Written by Daniel (The
Red) Cohn-Bendit, and directed by
Jean-Luc Goddard. Features Anne
Wiazemsky as The Whore and Gian Maria
Volante' as The Soldier.
Also: 'To The Loved Ones At
Home" A film by local film-makers John
Spence and Ted Kooser.
Sept. 19: "Maidstone"-Novelist
Norman Mailer's third feature film (after
"Wild 90" and "Beyond the Law") is
described by Vincent Canby in the New
York Times as "almost two hours of
comparatively expensive falling
around of making do, put-ons,
put-downs, desperation, junk, genius,
satire, pretension, jokes, soft-core sex,
brilliant wordplay, silly byplay, climaxed
by a spooky and hilarious and sad
confrontation of two exhausted
friends. . ."
Oct. 3: "Burn"-Directed by Gillo
Pontecorva ("Battle of Algiers") the film
features Marlon Brando in a film about
revolution.
Oct. 17: "Punishment Park"-A
powerful personal statement on America
by noted director Peter Watkins in which
he warns his audience with realism and
the impact of a horrifying tomorrow
which might exist or, possibly, is here
today.
Note-"Black Mesa", which was
scheduled to be shown with "Punishment
Park", has not been completed and will
be rescheduled next year.
Nov. 1: 'Three Lives"-a political
statement insofar as it is a film about
women made by women, Kate Millet
particularly. But it is not about the
assertions, the need for, or the effects of
Women's Liberation.
Nov. 15: "Cuba Va"- a film about
Cuba by Felix Greene who has done
interesting documentaries on several
Communist countries.
Nov. 28: "Me and My
Brother" outstanding film-maker Robert
Frank presents an incredibly powerful
study of alienation taking the form of
schizophrenia. The subject is Juliu
Orlovsky, who lives and travels with his
brother Peter and Allen Ginsberg.
Also, ''Conversations in
Vermont" Frank took his camera, tape
recorder, and cinema verite prejudices to
a progressive school-commune in
Vermont where his two teenage children
live very contentedly on the far side of a
family generation gap.
Dec. 6: 'Trash"-produced by Andy
Warhol, direction, story and photography
by, Paul Morrissey. Featuring Joe
Dallesandro, Holly Woodlawn, and Jane
Forth. "Trash recounts the
misadventures of Joe and Holly, a young
couple struggling to get by in New York
City.
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Wind From The East . . . "revolutionary Mini-Western" heads Union special films schedule.