UID:
kobvindex_ZLB15100908
Format:
2 DVD-Video (72 Min.) : s/w
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NTSC
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Bildformat: 1:1.33
ISBN:
9781933920085
Series Statement:
The Milestone cinematheque : [DVD-Video]
Content:
While attending the University of Southern California, director Kent Mackenzie made his first film, the controversial short documentary Bunker Hill - 1956, chronicling the planned demolition of a vibrant urban community. Excited by the challenge of working with nonprofessionals, filming on location and collaborating with his fellow film school grads, Mackenzie turned away from the mainstream moviemaking of the 1950s and embarked on a new kind of cinema. With such other free-spirited and groundbreaking filmmakers as John Cassavetes, Lionel Rogosin and Shirley Clarke, Mackenzie helped create an innovative American Independent movement that profoundly influenced the resurgent Hollywood new wave of the late 1960s. Bunker Hill, where most of THE EXILES is set, was once the glory of downtown L.A. - a haven for wealthy Los Angelenos set on a steep hill with a magnificent view. But by 1960, the area was a run-down neighborhood of decayed Victorian mansions and skid-row apartment buildings. The seedy charms of Bunker Hill have been celebrated in the novels of John Fante, Raymond Chandler and Charles Bukowski. For the men and women featured in THE EXILES, the neighborhood is an escape from the monotony of life "back home." The guys spend their night barhopping and gambling while the women try to hold their homes together and go to the movies to dream. THE EXILES is now a precious artifact of a lost time and place. In the early 1960s, developers and city planners not only razed the existing homes and tenements of Bunker Hill, they actually leveled much of the hill itself - replacing a residential neighborhood with high-rises, office buildings and more recently, the Walt Disney Concert Hall. Gritty, realistic and far ahead of its time (in a period when Hollywood films featured noble savages), the script for THE EXILES was created exclusively from recorded interviews with the participants and with their ongoing input during the shooting of the film. Native American writers and activists have long considered the film as one of first works of art to portray modern life honestly and as an important forerunner for the cultural renaissance of American Indian fiction, poetry, filmmaking and theater starting in the 1970s. Tragically, this moving and brilliantly shot collaboration between filmmaker Mackenzie and the young men and women whose lives he documented never received a commercial release. For years the film was almost impossible to find. So, when filmmaker Thom Andersen included glowing night scenes from THE EXILES in his 2003 compilation documentary, Los Angeles Plays Itself, viewers were enthralled with the poetry of the images. Milestone acquired the film from the daughters of Kent Mackenzie and is releasing the restored version (UCLA Film & Television Archive). It will be distributed throughout the world... (Milestone Films)
Content:
Extras: - Four short films directed by Kent Mackenzie including: * Bunker Hill 1956 (17:25) * A Skill For Molina (15:35) * Story of a Rodeo Cowboy (25:46) * Ivan and His Father (13:40) - Clips from Thom Andersen's masterpiece Los Angeles Plays Itself (2:57) - Commentary track with best-selling author Sherman Alexie and critic Sean Axmaker - Opening night panel discussion at UCLA (audio) - Last Day of Angels Flight, a short film by Robert Kirste. - Bunker Hill: A Tale of Urban Renewal, a short film by Greg Kimble (22:26) - White Fawn's Devotion: A Play Acted by a Tribe of Red Indians in America (1910, 11 min.), thought to be the first film directed by a Native American - WNYC s Leonard Lopate Show with Sherman Alexie and filmmaker Charles Burnett - DVD-Rom (press kit for the re-release scripts for The Exiles, Bunker Hill 1956, etc.): * The Mackenzie Files, courtesy of Diane Mackenzie, Kiki Ohlenkamp. * Production History on Bunker Hill-1956. * The 1956 Funding Proposal for The Exiles. * Six Scripts for Thunderbird and The Exiles. * The Final Script for The Exiles. * Original Publicity Material for The Exiles from 1963. * The Making of The Exiles: Mackenzie's Master's Thesis. * The "lost" Jug Band Man script: Kent Mackenzie's Unfinished Film. Courtesy of Teresa Kennett. * Kent Mackenzie's Last Resume. * Milestone's 2009 Press Kit for The Exiles.
Note:
Ländercode: 1
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Orig.: USA, 1961
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Bunker Hill ; Los Angeles Plays Itself [Excerpt] ; A Skill For Molina ; Story of a Rodeo Cowboy ; Last Day of Angels Flight ; Bunker Hill: A Tale of Urban Renewal ; White Fawn's Devotion ; Ivan and His Father .
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Engl.
Language:
English
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