Beat Era Cinema December 3, 2006
2625 Durant Ext
Berkeley, California 94720
Berkeley, California 94720
The artists of the "Beat Generation" era of the 1950s and sixties immersed themselves in new ways of making and living art. Diverse in style, the series represent the emergence of an alternative film movement that celebrated spontaneity, expressiveness, and the immediacy of everyday experience.
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SUN DEC 3 2006
2:00 Tarzan and Jane Regained . . . Sort Of
Andy Warhol (U.S., 1963)
Andy Warhol goes Hollywood . . . sort of. Warhol made his first sound film during a sojourn in Los Angeles in 1963. Along with leading players Taylor Mead and Naomi Levine, plus Dennis Hopper and a cavalcade of art stars including Claes and Pat Oldenburg and Wallace Berman (and his son Tosh), Warhol spent two weeks exploring the city, shooting (in black-and-white and color) everywhere from Berman's studio to the Beverly Hills Hotel to an unglamorous stretch of freeway. Jane swims naked in John Houseman's pool, Tarzan hunts for coconuts in the local palms, and the Watts Towers become an unlikely backdrop for an Edenic idyll.
• (80 mins, B&W/Color, 16mm, From The Museum of Modern Art, New York)
Preceded by short:
Triptych in Four Parts (Lawrence Jordan, U.S., 1958). Featuring Wallace Berman and family, Michael McClure, and John Reed. (12 mins, Color, 16mm, From Canyon Cinema)
• (Total running time: 92 mins)