From the Third Eye
By Ed Halter and Barney Rosset
By Ed Halter and Barney Rosset
By Ed Halter and Barney Rosset
By Ed Halter and Barney Rosset
Category: Movies & TV | Performing Arts | Art
Category: Movies & TV | Performing Arts | Art
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$29.95
Mar 06, 2018 | ISBN 9781609806156
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Mar 06, 2018 | ISBN 9781609806163
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Praise
“Over a decade and a half in the making, From The Third Eye: The Evergreen Review Film Reader is the first comprehensive look at Barney Rosset and Grove Press’s contribution to film culture, collecting close to four dozen articles of the Evergreen Review’s film section, contextualized with an in-depth introduction by Ed Halter and brilliantly laid out in the distinguished style of the erstwhile magazine. That such a work has finally arrived forty-five years after the demise of the Review is a testament to Rosset’s repeated lament that Grove’s place in film history is overlooked. […] Film, after all, was Rosset’s first artistic obsession, and he speaks of thinking more in images than in words, although it is undoubtedly the latter upon which his legacy rests. But the legendary publisher envisioned Grove as an interdisciplinary Leviathan, establishing dominion over theatre and film as well as the written word—a “new kind of communications center of the sixties” as Grove’s 1967 shareholder statement asserts with McLuhanesque bravado. Hearing this declaration decades hence, one is inclined to wonder—was it? As an answer to this question, From The Third Eye offers an intimate glimpse into this multimedia machine and its fractured legacy. […] Unlike many contemporaneous underground outlets, [the Evergreen Review‘s] articles still crackle with crisp lucidity and a healthy skepticism, encouraging conversation and debate and giving a platform to a diversity of voices. From The Third Eye holds fast to this approach, unafraid to expose the foibles and faults of a venerable and problematic institution but equally determined to showcase the depths of its talent and inquiry.” –Mitch Anzuoni, Brooklyn Rail
“It could be argued that the world of underground film and culture in the 1960s and 1970s would not have flourished as it did without the essays in Evergreen Review. The film commentary, specifically, dealt with the political, cultural, and sexual evolution of cinema, and gave credence to these changes in the medium. Moreover, the journal’s publisher, Grove Press, became heavily involved in the production and distribution of films in this period, so these writings managed to both elucidate and advertise experimental film. Featuring essays from 1958 to 1973, and written by the likes of cultural critics Nat Hentoff, Amos Vogel, and Parker Tyler, this is a snapshot of a major shift in cinema and a true time capsule of films and filmmakers who are often little known outside of a film studies class. VERDICT A wonderful resource on the virtues of directors Pier Paolo Pasolini, Jean-Luc Godard, Vilgot Sjöman, and many others; however, the esoteric nature of the subject matter and the high percentage of essays dealing with nudity or pornography relegates this to an academic audience or devoted film enthusiasts.” —Peter Thornell, Hingham P.L., MA
“From the Third Eye has a historically useful appendix listing all known films ever distributed by Grove Press (including some surprises—Flaming Creatures, Fuses, Wavelength) and copious illustrations. I especially appreciated the house ads promoting Grove films (in which fake-looking hippies brandish a picket sign demanding movies by Glauber Rocha) and sex—education flicks (seminude hippies canoodle in a cow pasture). Among other things, Rosset created the intellectual stroke book of which his fellow Chicagoan Hugh Hefner could only dream.” –J. Hoberman, Artforum
Table Of Contents
Introduction
Ed Halter
1958
The Angry Young Film Makers
Amos Vogel
1960
Jazz on a Summer’s Day
Jerry Tallmer
The Magic Box
Jerry Tallmer
1967
Dragtime and Drugtime, or, Film à la Warhol
Parker Tyler
Someday What You Really are is Going to Catch Up with You
Michael O’Donoghue
13 Confusions
Amos Vogel
The New American Cinema: Five Replies to Amos Vogel
Dan Talbot, Parker Tyler, Annette Michelson, Richard Schnickel, Gregory Markopoulos, with additional reply from Jonas Mekas
Chappaqua
Lawrence Shainberg
1968
Turning the Camera into the Audience
Nat Hentoff
Norman Mailer’s Wild 90
Lita Eliscu
Warhol’s Nude Restaurant
Stefan S. Brecht
Vietnam Déjà Vu: A Film Review of Godard’s La Chinoise
Lita Eliscu
The Edge
Lita Eliscu
Sex and Politics: An Interview with Vilgot Sjöman
John Lahr
The Sixth New York Film Festival
Sidney Bernard
1969
A Way of Life: An Interview with John Cassavetes
Andre S. Labarthe
Lola in LA: An Interview with Jacques Demy
Michel Delahaye
The Day Rap Brown Became a Press Agent for Paramount
Amos Vogel
Solanas: Film as a Political Essay
Louis Marcorelles
Easy Rider: A Very American Thing
L.M. Kit Carson
Participatory Television
Nat Hentoff
Rocha’s Film as Carnival
Frieda Grafe
Rimbaud’s Desert as Seen by Pasolini
Wallace Fowlie
1970
Mister Freedom: An Interview with William Klein
Abraham Segal
Destroy, She Said: An Interview with Marguerite Duras
Jacques Rivette & Jean Narboni
The Man Who Lies: An Interview with Alain Robbe-Grillet
Tom and Helen Bishop
Do They or Don’t They? Why It Matters So Much
Parker Tyler
Mandabi: Confronting Africa
Julius Lester
Seeing America First with Andy Warhol
Dotson Rader
“It Could Only Happen in California”
Dotson Rader
Women’s Lib: Save the Last Dance for Me
Tom Seligson
Have You Seen It All, Dennis Hopper?
L.M. Kit Carson
Woodstock: An Interview with Michael Wadleigh and Bob Maurice
Kent E. Carroll
Mucking with the Real
L.M. Kit Carson
Film and Revolution: An Interview with Jean-Luc Godard
Kent E. Carroll
We: A Manifesto, Dziga Vertov Papatakis: Tiger in a Think-Tank
Parker Tyler
Hollywood’s Last Stand
Tom Seligson
1971
Fonda, My Buddy
Seymour Krim
Eros and the Muses
Jerome Tarshis
The First Annual Congress of the High Church of Hard Core
Robert Coover
News from Phyllis and Eberhard Kronhausen
Sara Davidson
Those Homophile Husbands
Parker Tyler
Pasolini’s Decameron
Tom Hamilton
Film: Freaks and Fellini
Nat Hentoff
Perverse Chic
Tom Seligson
1973
A Transit to Narcissus
Norman Mailer
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