USA,
1966, 10 min
Shown in 1998
CREDITS
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Warren Sonbert, Wendy Appel
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Academy Film Archive, 333 S. La Cienega Blvd., Beverly Hills, CA 90211. FAX: 310 -657-5193. WEBSITE: wwv.ampos.org
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COMMENTS
Part of Future for the Past: A Tribute to Warren Sonbert & the Estate Project.
OTHER
Warren Sonbert’s films are perhaps best known as rooted in the avant-garde “diarist” film tradition. A post-mortem reassessment of his career, made possible through the support of the Estate Project for Artists with AIDS, strongly suggests a different persona, revealing both a probing and playful artist and a keen intellect reveling in the interplay between all the creative arts.
Made when Sonbert was only 19 years old, Amphetamine is a tour de force of ’60s counterculture.
—Jon Gartenberg
FACTOID #180
According to the Chronicle’s Herb Caen, producer David O. Selznick’s ’last letter and last phone call were to [SFIFF administrator] Shirley Temple Black to whom he said, ’I can’t wait to see you at the Festival.’’ Selznick was the namesake for a series of awards at the San Francisco International.
