Word: filming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Contrariwise, students might also make movies about people they dislike. These would be propaganda movies, and would help the film maker to experience the value of propaganda. It is of course essential that genuine dislike exist toward the subject...
...film almost entirely narrated by Miller, follows him through his early years, from his childhood in Brooklyn to his blissful exile in Paris. The past is recreated through Miller's readings from his autobiographical works, the reminiscing of Miller and his friends old photographs and manuscripts, and through brilliant color shots of the Paris that Miller knew. The camera's eye focuses on the street life of Paris that Miller knew so intimately-the cafes and whorehouses, the rooftops and benches, the stores and moviehouses, the colors of the fruits and bowers. The Paris street people-the vagabonds drunkards...
...best parts of the film are those which show Miller the clown. In the opening shots he laughs and makes faces at himself in the mirror. "For all your ills, I give you laughter. To laugh at yourself is the most important thing." he says. His boisterous and irresistible laughter proves his point. Upon graduating from high school in Brooklyn, Miller was asked what the wanted to be later on in life. "A clown." he replied. "the symbol of man's suffering on earth...
...SAME childlike vision which guides his appreciation of art and the execution of his own art. The watercolors he does, beautifully presented in the film, are reminiscent of Paul Klec. whom he admires. Anais Nin, a close friend of Miller's who came to the film's showing at Emerson, compared Miller with Fellini in their love for clowns. Both have a great passion for the circus. Fellini once said that if he hadn't become a filmmaker, he would have been a circusmaster...
...parts of the film in which Miller reads from his own work are too long. He is not a very good reader, and his literary style is so conversational that he is at his best when he retells a story he wrote in one of his books. His extempore dialogue interspersed with "doncha know" and "isn't that so." is witty and engaging. His gruff, gravelly voice, not unlike that of Huphrey Bogart, conveys a tone of ironic detachment which helps in sensing the tone of his books...