Word: dreyers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...looking at a concave or a convex object," Mailer elaborates. "In Maidstone, I was making an attack on reality. Fact and fantasy keep coalescing." Mailer admits that he is not the first to have made such an assault on tradition. Although the names of Buñuel, Dreyer and Antonioni are evoked in Maidstone, Mailer believes that his strongest single influence was the San Francisco film maker Bruce Conner, whose dazzling short works (A Movie, Cosmic Ray and Report) constantly explore and test the limits of illusion...
...shown represent a history of genre as much as of film itself (Comedies, musicals, and drama will be shown). Classics like Keaton's "The General" and Von Sternberg's "The Blue Angel" will be shown along with more esoteric films such as G. W. Pabst's "Kameradshaft" and Carl Dreyer's "Day of Wrath." Students might question the complete absence of any New Wave films whatsoever and the presence of such films as Reed's "The Third Man" and Kelly/Donen's "Singing in the Rain...