Flame Schon - "DOPE"- trailer

Título: Flame Schon - "DOPE"- trailer

Autor: daughterofdada

Categoria: Filmes e desenhos

Descrição: Trailer from DOPE, 1968 documentary of the London drug scene ---- See entire movie in streaming video (89 min) at- http://www.dopethemovie.net -& purchase DVD. ---- by Diane Rochlin ( now Flame Schon) and Sheldon Rochlin- Featuring Caroline Thomson, Casey Deiss, Vali Myers & music by Geno Foreman. ---- "an unusually valuable testament to the spirit of its time and place"- Tony Rayns --- DOPE centers around a young girl's descent into drugs. We see Caroline,(early 20s) a ravishing sixties naif, become a junkie, caught in the contemporary drug culture of the age. We come to understand not only the drug lure of the era, but also the soul of a free spirit who is caught in the grip of forces she cannot penetrate or comprehend. Like a butterfly caught in a web, Caroline struggles against her fate but its seductive attractions threaten to vanquish her. --- Shot in the lilting, evocative style of filmmakers Sheldon and Diane Rochlin, the film-celebrated for its subversive content-was shown at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1975. Praised as a film " ahead of its time" by Ricky Leacock, the Rochlins signed a distribution contract with Leacock-Pennebaker. But just as the final editing was completed, the distribution arm of Leacock-Pennebaker went bankrupt. The film has remained an underground indie classic ever since, surfacing only rarely at an isolated screening. ---- "Mere words cannot adequately describe this visual montage documenting the bohemian London drug culture of the late '60s. DOPE follows a host of American and British artists and their friends as they shoot heroin, smoke, eat, cook, play music, and just plain hang out. In the spirit of the era's avant garde film movement and evoking the subversive work of Andy Warhol, Jack Smith, Stan Brackage, and even Dennis Hopper's Easy Rider, DOPE never spares its audience a break. DOPE is more underground than the underground. It's sub-underground."- First Provincetown Film Festival. '99 --- "The film avoids the dubious, ambiguous 'intimacy' of much cinema-verite, and it has a well-developed visual style. The Rochlins' method is basically expressionist; but surprisingly, this in no way contradicts their decision to be recorders rather than commentators, but rather proves that neo-realism and its offspring movements are limited and limiting ways of handling documentary in the cinema. Their refusal to interpret their subjects makes the film an unusually valuable testament to the spirit of its time and place . A death in the group is assimilated into the film without any deviation from the overall tone. Ultimately, the best analogy for the Rochlins' achievement is the old blues song which runs through it like a refrain: 'Hey, baby, won't you come here quick/ This old cocaine's making me sick/Cocaine all around my brain.' Dope shares the same tone of subdued pain and troubled acquiescence; and it is perhaps this, above all, which makes the film so distinctive."- Tony Rayns, Monthly Film Bulletin, London '71 --- "When it premiered at the Locarno Festival in 1968, DOPE was praised by Variety's Gene Moskowitz as '...not just another look at the so-called drug, or hippie scene. A rugged documentary with revealing insights into the sad, touching, downbeat, sometimes tender drug scene.' 'Ones perception of DOPE is even more complex today ('75), when the immediacy and poignancy of its style mingle with other perspectives provided by the distance of seven years'. according to John Hanhardt, Head of the Film Department. 'Seeing DOPE remains a harrowing experience while at the same time one feels a curious nostalgia, both for times past and for lives lost.' The edges between immediate experience and remote history begin to blur; we see at once "how it is" and "how it was." Years from now DOPE will probably survive as an historical document of a time long ago. If so, it will surely inform and shape how anyone who has seen it thinks about the time and place it describes." - -Whitney Museum, '75 -- At the time of filming, (early '67), heroin in England was legal with a prescription. Junkies were not a criminal class; nor were they isolated. There was a continuum of all types & frequencies of drug use. Dope is dope. The movie is not "about" dope. Dope is the ground, like the earth--always there. -- "The images are so lyrical and transfixing that sometimes it's hard to remember the story is one of drugs and dissolution." "Light and atmospheric, a heady drama perfumed with scenes of heroin & hashish" -Ira Cohen '08 --- The original soundmix is by master mixer Mark Dichter. - Camera by Diane Rochlin, one of the cinematographers of Ira Cohen's "Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda" & Norman Mailer's "Maidstone". -- -Dope features the late, rarely heard musician Geno Foreman singing "Cocaine" , "When You Hear Them Cuckoos Calling" & his own "Junky Blues", the legendary Casey Deiss, who died by lightning, & the late artist Vali Myers.

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