From: Peter Taylor (email suppressed)
Date: Fri Dec 19 2008 - 10:36:03 PST
hi all,
anyone know of distribution/print sources for MILESTONES in europe?
kind regards
peter
Chuck Kleinhans wrote:
> FYI: FOUR ONLINE ITEMS ON MILESTONES & KRAMER:
>
>
> ONE
> http://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/onlinessays/JC10-11folder/MilestonesCitnKlnsLes.html
>
>
> White punks on revolution in MILESTONES
>
> by Michelle Citron, Chuck Kleinhans and Julia Lesage...from Jump Cut,
> no. 10-11, 1976, pp. 8-9
>
> MILESTONES is an overlong, three-and-one-half-hour, low-budget color
> film directed in a Cassevetes acting style in which actors of varying
> ability play both their scripted role and themselves. Taking into
> account the low budget, the film is technically unpolished but often
> cinematically audacious and fascinating. Taking into account the
> filmmakers’ explicit intent of making a left film about the left, the
> film is politically uneven, inept, and often wrong and stupid.
>
> TWO
>
> http://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/onlinessays/JC10-11folder/HorriganMilestones.html
>
>
>
> Milestones in others’ words
>
> by Bill Horrigan, from Jump Cut, no. 10-11, 1976, pp. 9-10
>
> Judging from the comparatively scant attention paid to MILESTONES in
> this country, one might be surprised to learn of the extensive
> coverage it received in France following its Cannes showing last year.
>
> THREE
>
> http://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/onlinessays/JC10-11folder/KramerDouglasIntLevin.html
>
>
> Robert Kramer and John Douglas interviewed
>
> “Reclaiming our past, reclaiming our beginning“ by G. Roy Levin
>
> from Jump Cut, no. 10-11, 1976, pp. 6-8
>
> My interview with Robert Kramer and John Douglas took place at the
> Cannes Film Festival, May 17, 1975. We talked about their film,
> MILESTONES, which was shown there as part of the Critics’ Fortnight
> series.
>
> FOUR
>
> http://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/onlinessays/jc12-13folder/kramerint.html
>
> Interview with Robert Kramer
> Filming in the fist of the revolution
>
> by Thomas Brom
>
> from Jump Cut, no. 12/13, 1976, pp. 29-30
> copyright Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media, 1976, 2004
>
> The following interview with Robert Kramer took place on December 9,
> 1975. Kramer directed ICE and co-directed MILESTONES (review and
> interview in JUMP CUT 10/11).
>
>
>
> On Dec 18, 2008, at 1:25 PM, Adam Sekuler wrote:
>
>> Fellow programmers,
>>
>> Once again I'm working on touring a film throughout the US and
>> Canada. This time I'm working with Capricci films in Europe on
>> touring a newly restored 35mm print of Robert Kramer and John
>> Douglas' MILESTONES, an heroic complex, and deeply moving masterpiece
>> of the 1970s. MILESTONES captures the vast American landscape and
>> more than 50 people who had been involved in political protests at a
>> time when America searched for identity in the wake of the Vietnam
>> War and the country's incipient conservative turn. Everything from
>> nudism to organic farming to radical politics are practiced on local
>> levels, while many of the film's subjects are constantly on the move,
>> never quite comfortable where they are. This powerful, affecting
>> lament for a generation whose aspirations never coalesced into a
>> workable politics or lifestyle offers a fascinating comparison to the
>> new political activism that has begun to appear all over the U.S. The
>> New York Times' A.O. Scott remarked of the work “I have the sense
>> that any attempt to grasp the essence of the '60s will have to pass
>> through Milestones, as sad and compassionate a movie as I have ever
>> seen.”
>>
>> My hope is to kick off the tour in the summer of 2009.
>> If you're interested in being a part of this tour, let me know.
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Adam
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