| View Larger Image | Eclipse Series 18: Dusan Makavejev- Free Radical | DVDStarring: Eva Ras, Slobodan Aligrudic, Ruzica Sokic, Miodrag Andric, Aleksander Kostic
Directed By: Dusan Makavejev
Also With: Aleksandar Petkovic (Cinematographer), Branko Perak (Cinematographer), Stevan Miskovic (Cinematographer), Dusan Makavejev (Writer), Ivanka Vukasovic (Editor), Katarina Stojanovic (Editor), Branko Vucicevic (Writer)
| List Price: | $44.95 | |
| | Binding: | DVD | | Rating: |  | | Run Time: | 295 minutes | | Format: | Box set, Black & White, Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC | | Studio: | Criterion | | Number of Discs: | 3 | | Aspect Ratio: | 1.33:1 | | Release Date: | October 13, 2009 | | Sales Rank: | 15,619th |
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There’s never been another filmmaker quite like Dusan Makavejev. Even in the 1960s, when all of cinema’s steadfast rules seemed to be breaking down and artists such as Godard, Cassavetes, and Marker were dissolving the boundaries between fiction and documentary, Yugoslavia’s Makavejev stood alone. His films about political and sexual liberation were revolutionary, raucous, and ribald. Across these, his wild, college-like first three films, Makavejev investigates—with a tonic mix of earnestness and whimsy—love, death, and work; the legacy of war and the absurdity of daily life in a Communist state; criminology and hypnosis; strudels and strongmen.Eclipse Series 18 Includes:Man is Not a Bird (Covek nije tica)A copper-factory town in the mountains serves as the unexpected site for a strange brew of sex, hypnosis, and Beethoven in Makavejev's dizzying debut.Love Affair, or the Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator (Ljubavni slucaj ili tragedija sluzbenice P.T.T.)The romance between a young telephonist and a rat exterminator lays the groundwork for a tragic, funny, and modern look at relationships in sixties Belgrade.Innocence Unprotected (Nevinost bez zastite)In this documentary-fiction hybrid, one of Yugoslavia's most infamous (and ridiculous) lost films becomes the canvas on which Makavejev colorfully paints a violent national history and an absurd biography of a real-life escape artist and acrobat. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 5.0 based on 1 review)
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radical, but watchable by Daniela Ratcheva (Atlanta, USA)  5 Stars
November 10, 2009
WR: Mysteries of the Organism may be the quintessential Makavejev movie according to the movie scholars, but I prefer these three movies instead. They are sad, funny, rude and bittersweet like the life itself. According to Dave Kehr "these movies are like ghostly dispatches from a long vanished country". I could not agree more. Buy this box set, for the price it is the bargain of the year.
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