Paradise Now

APPROPIATE

1970 / 105min.

Rating4.2

Genres

Documentary

Synopsis

At least forty films have been made about the Living Theatre; it remained to the American underground filmmaker Sheldon Rochlin (previously responsible for the marvellous Vali) to make the 'definitive' film about one of the most famous of their works, Paradise Now, shot in Brussels and at the Berlin Sportpalast. Made on videotape, with expressionist colouring 'injected' by electronic means, this emerges as a hypnotic transmutation of a theatrical event into poetic cinema, capturing the ambiance and frenzy of the original. No documentary record could have done it justice.

Directors

Actors

Judith Malina

Julian Beck

Diana Van Tosh

Jim Anderson

Franck Hogeboom

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