Subject: Nicholas Ray's WE CAN'T GO HOME AGAIN (1976) Mon Sep 05, 2011 6:14 pm
The Venice Film Festival showed a restored/reconstructed version of Ray's final film yesterday. Reactions are yet to pour in, but you can find a round-up of information on WE CAN'T GO HOME AGAIN here, which cites this blurb from the New York Film Festival, which will show the film in October:
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"A decade after quitting Hollywood, legendary director Nicholas Ray (Rebel Without a Cause, In a Lonely Place) accepted a teaching contract at Harpur College in Binghamton, NY. There, with the intensive collaboration of his students, he began work on a project unlike anything he had done before, the making of which would consume his creative energies for the remainder of his life. Entitled We Can't Go Home Again, that film is Ray's enormously ambitious, profoundly personal, wildly experimental magnum opus — a collection of notes on Vietnam-era America, the generation gap and the filmmaking process itself, conceived in a dizzying kaleidoscope of split screens, superimpositions and other radical image manipulations that anticipate later trends in video art and digital effects. After rushing to complete the film for its premiere at the 1973 Cannes Film Festival, Ray continued to re-work We Can't Go Home Again until his death from lung cancer in 1979."
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Subject: Re: Nicholas Ray's WE CAN'T GO HOME AGAIN (1976) Wed Sep 28, 2011 10:42 pm