24/05/2011

CHRISTOPHER MACLAINE - BEAT FILMS DVD







CHRISTOPHER MACLAINE
BEAT FILMS
(DVD PAL INTERZONE) 19,90 euros

Contains:
THE END 16mm 1953 35'
THE MAN WHO INVENTED GOLD 16mm 1957 14'
BEAT 16mm 1958 6'
SCOTCH HOP 16mm 1958 6'



Christopher Maclaine - The End, 1953 (video excerpt):

"Here are some pictures. What is happening?"

"With Maclaine, we are going back to the sources of the Beats; he was the filmmaker who chronicled the movement as it happened and created a center of one of the aspect the Beat myth eight years before the grand epic of 'Beat' became nationnally known with Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac. (...) I have seen The End more than fifty times, and there are moments when I still begin to tremble at the psychological blockages and outright terror of it. Unqestionnaly, it is Maclaine's masterpiece."
-Stan Brakhage

" Avec Maclaine, on revient à la source du mouvement Beat; il fut le cinéaste qui chroniqua le mouvement comme il venait, qui a créé un des aspects du mythe Beat huit ans avant que l'épopée Beat ne devienne nationalement connue avec Allen Ginsberg et Jack Kerouac. (...) J'ai vu ce film plus de cinquante fois et il y a toujours des moments où les blocages psychologiiques et la terreur absolue qu'il provoque me font trembler. C'est sans aucun doute le chef d'oeuvre de Maclaine."
-Stan Brakhage