Word: films
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Greeting is a new film that opens with Lyndon Johnson speaking before a labor union audience. He says, "I don't mean to say that you never had it so good, but that's true, isn't it?" O.K. Johnson's criminal insanity aside, his remarks are the ideal preface to a film that shows just how horrible the paranoid lives we lead in the shadow of Vietnam are. The film is about three young New Yorkers, Jon, Paul, and Lloyd--apparently students--and their hassels with the draft and sex. Greeting has a very hip perspective on both; unlike...
...film this, Tim set up the camera by a stop sign on a small road that intersected perdendicularly with the highway. Tommy was stationed further down the road, within sight of Tim, who waved to him each time he wanted to start a take. Nora, wearing jeans and a Levi jacket, stood across the highway from Tim. Eric, near the camera, held the mike out towards the highway, and Phoebe and I leaned on the rented Dodge station wagon, parked behind the stop sign...
...DROVE to another road to film the end of the scene--a conversaiton between Tommy and Nora in the parked jeep...
...talked about 3 Sisters, his last film. "Each production has a different atmosphere. 3 Sisters was an obsessive film, a deranged thing, but the process of making it got very calmly caught up in group morality. A kind of working morality developed and almost all of us got caught up in it.... I can't explain it well...
...would edit his film for six weeks at WGBH. Like him, I wondered if the ghosts of New Hampshire would be as real for the people who would watch the movie as for the people who made...