Gideon Bachmann’s Interviews with Filmmakers Screened at Il Cinema Ritrovato Festival
/The 34th edition of Il Cinema Ritrovato Festival is presenting three films by Gideon Bachmann in its DOCUMENTS AND DOCUMENTARIES: FELLINI, CAVANI, TAVIANI program. Screenings beginning August 25th include “NOW I WILL TELL YOU, AFTER ALL” – FEDERICO FELLINI’S LAST/LOST INTERVIEW (1985), and continue with LILIANA CAVANI: INTERNO BERLINESE (1985), and PAOLO E VITTORIO TAVIANI: GOOD MORNING CINEMA (1987).
LILIANA CAVANI: INTERNO BERLINESE
GME distributes Bachmann’s UNDERGROUND NEW YORK (Germany, 1968), the winner of the festival’s 2016 DVD award for Best Contributions to Film History, in addition to these other Il Cinema Ritrovato Festival award winning DVDS.
Gideon Bachmann
UNDERGROUND NEW YORK (1968)
16mm, b&w, 88min total runtime
Available on DVD / disponible ici: https://re-voir.com/shop/en/gideon-bachmann-dvd/709-underground-new-york.html
A rare behind-the-scenes view of the exploding New York “underground” in the late sixities, a turbulent time and place that was to change American culture forever. A German TV crew, led by journalist Gideon Bachmann, explores the epicenter of the sixties revolution in art, music, poetry and film and interviews the main players in the “New American Cinema,” that was born on the streets of New York. Against a backdrop of cultural upheaval in all of the arts and growing political agitation against the Vietnam War, Bachman interviews the most prominent figures in “underground film,” including Jonas Mekas, Shirley Clarke, the Kuchar Brothers and Bruce Connor, and visits the most notorious location in the New York art world of the era - Andy Warhol’s Factory - to conduct an interview with the genius of Pop Art himself.
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New York à la fin des années soixante. Une plongée inédite dans l’« underground » new-yorkais en pleine ébullition, un moment et un lieu qui devaient changer à jamais le visage de la culture américaine. Une équipe de télévision allemande, menée par le journaliste Gideon Bachmann, explore l’épicentre de la révolution artistique, musicale, poétique et cinématographique des sixties, en interviewant les principaux acteurs du « New American Cinema » né dans les rues de New York. Sur fond de bouleversement culturel généralisé et de contestation politique croissante de la guerre du Vietnam, Bachmann s’entretient avec les principales figures du « cinéma underground », parmi lesquelles Jonas Mekas, Shirley Clarke, les frères Kuchar et Bruce Conner. Sans oublier une visite à la Mecque de la scène artistique new-yorkaise de l’époque, la Factory d’Andy Warhol, pour interviewer le génie du Pop Art en personne.
-- Scott Hammen
With / Avec: Allen Ginsberg, Shirley Clarke, Jonas Mekas, Michelangelo Antonioni, Adolfas Mekas, George and Mike Kuchar, Bruce Connor, Carl Linder, Maurice Amar, Gerd Stern, Jud Yalkut, Andy Warhol, Brigid Berlin