Eclipse Series 18: Dusan Makavejev- Free
Radical (DVD x 3)
DESCRIPTION:
There's never been another filmmaker quite like
Du an Makavejev. Even in the 1960s, when all of cinema's rules seemed to be
breaking down and artists such as Godard, Cassavetes, and Marker were
dissolving the boundary between fiction and documentary, Yugoslavia's Makavejev
stood alone. His films about political and sexual liberation were
revolutionary, raucous, and ribald. Across these, his wild, collagelike first
three films, Makavejev investigates with a tonic mix of earnestness and whimsy
love, death, and work; the legacy of war and the absurdity of daily life in a
Communist state; criminology and hypnosis; strudels and strongmen.
MAN IS NOT A BIRD
Dusan Makavejev 1965
MAN IS NOT A BIRD is an antic, free-form portrait of the love
lives of two less-than-heroic men who labor in a copper factory. This is one of
cinema's most assured and daring debuts.
LOVE AFFAIR, OR THE CASE OF THE MISSING SWITCHBOARD OPERATOR
Dusan Makavejev 1967
This story of the tragic romance between a young telephonist
(Eva Ras) and a middle-aged rodent sanitation specialist (Slobodan Aligrudic)
in Belgrade is an endlessly surprising, time-shifting exploration of love and
freedom.
INNOCENCE UNPROTECTED
Dusan Makavejev 1968
This utterly unclassifiable film assembled from the lost'
footage of the first Serbian talkie, made during the Nazi occupation is one of
Makavejev's most freewheeling farces.
Criterion Collection (Direct)
REGION: 1 (US,CA)
LANGUAGE: Serbian
ACTORS: Eva Ras, Slobodan Aligrudic,
Ruzica Sokic, Miodrag Andric, Aleksander Kostic…
SUBTITLES: English
RUNNING TIME: 295 Min.