USA,
1964, 125 min
Shown in 1966
CREDITS
- dir
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Shirley Clarke
- scr
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Shirley Clarke, Carl Lee
- cam
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Baird Bryant, Leroy MacLucas
- editor
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Shirley Clarke
- mus
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Mal Waldron
- cast
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Hampton Clanton, Gloria Foster, Georgia Burke, Carl Lee, Yolanda RodrÃguez, Bostic Felton, Clarence Williams III, Antonio Fargas
- prod co
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Wiseman Film Productions
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COMMENTS
Showed as a part of the New American Directors series. Shirley Clarke appeared in person.
OTHER
The most famous woman director in American cinema today is Shirley Clarke. She began her career as a dancer, and was interested chiefly in dance films and the choreographic possibilities of camera imagery. Her short films ranged from dance subjects to experiments in color. Then, after doing a film for UNICEF, she made her first feature, The Connection, based upon Jack Gelber's harrowing play about narcotics addicts. Despite the fact that Shirley Clarke was an acknowledged, prizewinning director of shorts, it was her feature work that won her international fame. Her most recent feature, The Cool World is the best film ever made about American Negro life in Harlem, and almost prophetic in its implications.
—Albert Johnson
FACTOID #232
Our first seminar at the Festival was entitled Censorship and the Actor’s Art: A Symposium, featuring panelists Michael Mayer and Lou Greenspan at Grace Cathedral, October 24, 1966.
