Among the most idiosyncratic auteurs of avant-garde film, Dušan Makavejev was championed in the early 70s as the herald of art cinema’s next wave. In those years, film critics were calling Makavejev’s early movie, Love Affair , the best film that Godard never made. Innocence Unprotected was pronounced a tour de force of cinematographic collage. WR: Mysteries of the Organism received a thirteen-minute standing ovation as well as the Luis Buñuel Award at Cannes & was later lauded as a subversive masterpiece & as “the flagship of ‘philosophical cinema.’” Francis Ford Coppola invited him to direct Apocalypse Now. Instead, Makavejev made Sweet Movie , a conceptual sequel to WR, a politological, erotological, scatological, scandalous & unapologetic work which received practically no distribution, ending his honeymoon with film critics & with financial backers, nearly killing his career.
Language
English
Pages
280
Format
Kindle Edition
Publisher
Charles University Prague
Release
March 26, 2018
Dušan Makavejev: Eros, Ideology, Montage (Litteraria Pragensia)
Among the most idiosyncratic auteurs of avant-garde film, Dušan Makavejev was championed in the early 70s as the herald of art cinema’s next wave. In those years, film critics were calling Makavejev’s early movie, Love Affair , the best film that Godard never made. Innocence Unprotected was pronounced a tour de force of cinematographic collage. WR: Mysteries of the Organism received a thirteen-minute standing ovation as well as the Luis Buñuel Award at Cannes & was later lauded as a subversive masterpiece & as “the flagship of ‘philosophical cinema.’” Francis Ford Coppola invited him to direct Apocalypse Now. Instead, Makavejev made Sweet Movie , a conceptual sequel to WR, a politological, erotological, scatological, scandalous & unapologetic work which received practically no distribution, ending his honeymoon with film critics & with financial backers, nearly killing his career.