Paradise Now (1970)
Paradise Now
At least forty films have been made about the Living Theatre; it remained to the American underground filmmaker Sheldon Rochlin (previously responsible for the marvellous Vali) to make the 'definitive' film about one of the most famous of their works, Paradise Now, shot in Brussels and at the Berlin Sportpalast. Made on videotape, with expressionist colouring 'injected' by electronic means, this emerges as a hypnotic transmutation of a theatrical event into poetic cinema, capturing the ambiance and frenzy of the original. No documentary record could have done it justice.
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Diana Van Tosh
as Self
as Self
Jim Anderson
as Self
as Self
Franck Hogeboom
as Self
as Self
Julian Beck
as
as
Judith Malina
as
as
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Sheldon Rochlin
Director
Director
