We can't go home again [blu-ray] / Oscilloscope Laboratories and The Nicholas Ray Foundation in collaboration with Eye Institute Netherlands and Academy Film Archive and with the support of Biennale di Venezia ... [et al.] ; written by Nicholas Ray with Susan Ray ; produced by Nicholas Ray ; directed by Nicholas Ray ; and, Don't expect too much / Susan Ray.
Nicholas Ray, Tom Farrell, Leslie Levinson, Richard Bock, Jill Gannon, Jane Heymann, Phil Weisman, "The Crew." Bonus: extended interviews with filmmaker Jim Jarmusch and Ray biographer Bernard Eisenschitz; Camera three--profile of Nicholas Ray (CBS, 1977); rushes from Ray's Marco (1977); About Marco, interviews with Claudio Mazzatenta and Gerry Bamman; "The janitor," Nicholas Ray's episode from Wet dreams, a feature film produced by Max Fischer; booklet featuring original artwork by Nicholas Ray, essays by Susan Ray, Serge Daney and Bill Krohn, and archival photographs.
Summary:
"Restored and reconstructed from its 1973 Cannes version, legendary director Nicholas Ray's experimental masterpiece We can't go home again embodies the director's practice of filmmaking as a 'communal way of life.' Made with his college students in upstate New York, the film features Ray as mentor, friend, and reference point to his students and their stories of love, sex, rebellion, and lost innocence. With its expressionistic colorization, the film exemplifies Ray's groundbreaking approach to multiple-image storytelling, providing a unique, almost anthropological perspective in recording the 'history, progress, manners, morals, and mores of everyday life' at a critical moment in 1970s America. Don't expect too much, a new feature-length documentary by Nicholas Ray's wife Susan, investigates the making of We can't go home again and the complex relationships within Ray's life and art. Drawing on his archive of never-before-seen film, video, and stills, as well as new interviews with the film's original crew, directors Jim Jarmusch, Victor Erice, and others, Susan Ray provides a compelling and candid exploration of the last years of this revered American auteur."--Container.
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