Paradise Now: The Living Theater in Amerika

Jan 23, 1969

0h 45m

★ 6.0

Overview

A harrowing, gorgeous, in-your-face-and-mind 45-minute black-and-white film by Marty Topp, produced by Ira Cohen for Universal Mutant. “Marty Topp’s beautiful film of ‘Paradise Now’ reveals how the theories of revolutionary change and the experience of sexual liberation are not separate paths to the beautiful nonviolent anarchist revolution. Practiced together they are a single thrust, encompassing both political action and sensual joy, leading to the dreamed-of terrestrial paradise.

Genres

Documentary

Drama

Fantasy

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Cast

Julian Beck

Judith Malina

Five short stories with contemporary settings. In New York, people are indifferent to derelicts sleeping on sidewalks, to a woman's assault in front of an apartment building, and to a couple injured in a car crash. A man, stripped of his identity, dies in bed with actors expressing his agony. A cheerful, innocent young man walking a city street in a time of war pays a price for this innocence. A couple talks about cinema while it watches another couple talk of love and truth on the eve of one character's return to Cuba. Striking students take over a university classroom; an argument follows about revolution or incremental change.

9.0

Rite of Guerrilla Theater

Sep 9, 1969

Commissioned work by Julian Beck and members of The Living Theatre (featuring Beck and Judith Malina, co-founders of The Living Theatre, in performance) for broadcast on KQED-TV, San Francisco. The Dilexi Series represents a pioneering effort to present works created by artists specifically for broadcast.

6.4

The Connection

Feb 15, 1962

Eight drug addicts are waiting for their connection in a New York apartment while a two-man documentary team films the proceedings. Things go out of control as the men grow increasingly nervous and the cameraman keeps recording.

0.0

Emergency: The Living Theatre

Sep 9, 1968

a 32-minute color film by Gwen Brown, featuring precious footage of Living Theatre productions “Mysteries” and smaller pieces, “Paradise Now” and “Frankenstein.” “The fusion of Brown’s freewheeling direct cinema and the Living Theatre’s performance for revolutionary change (amidst the heydays of both) unite as a dynamic concoction of the era, yielding for the viewer a shifting terrain of both critical insight and ecstatic zeal, not as a vacant nostalgia for a pre-commodified radicality, but as tactical inspiration for future days.” – Andrew Wilson (Artist’s Access Television)

6.6

The Brig

Sep 20, 1964

Jonas Mekas’s film captures The Living Theatre’s stage production of The Brig, an unflinching portrait of life inside a U.S. Marine Corps jail in Japan in 1957. Over the course of a single day, prisoners endure relentless drills, abuse, and dehumanization, exposing the brutality of military discipline with stark immediacy.

0.0

The Connection

Jan 1, 1959

A professional recording of the official play. The play has a play-within-a-play format, with characters Jim Dunn as the "producer" and Jaybird as the "writer" attempting to stage a production about the underbelly of society using "real" addicts. Some of the addicts are jazz musicians. They all (except for the "producer", "writer", and two "photographers") have one thing in common: they are waiting for their drug dealer, their "connection". The dialogue of the characters is interspersed with jazz music.

4.2

Paradise Now

Mar 21, 1970

At least forty films have been made about the Living Theatre; it remained to the American underground filmmaker Sheldon Rochlin (previously responsible for the marvellous Vali) to make the 'definitive' film about one of the most famous of their works, Paradise Now, shot in Brussels and at the Berlin Sportpalast. Made on videotape, with expressionist colouring 'injected' by electronic means, this emerges as a hypnotic transmutation of a theatrical event into poetic cinema, capturing the ambiance and frenzy of the original. No documentary record could have done it justice.

0.0

Cour d'honneur de Jérôme Bel - Avignon 2013

Jul 19, 2013

Jérôme Bel's show features the memories of spectators at the Avignon Festival.

8.0

This American Wife

May 20, 2021

The body of a Real Housewife is an apparatus, an assembly of parts—hair, lips, dress, falsies, mic pack, cell phone, wine stem, camera, restaurant, brand, identity. This body is maintained and degraded, intoxicated and cleansed, in seasons and cycles, systems of supply and denial. The self needs a medium. Who cares who you are when you’re alone anymore?

4.5

Luban Four Heroes

Apr 16, 2021

Many urban legends exist around a famous "Suolongjing" near Beixin Bridge in old Beijing. The ancient water well with chains going underground. According to legend, in the early Ming Dynasty, the old dragon was entrenched in this place. After the capital was moved in 1421 from Nanjing to Beijing, dragon was accidentally disturbed by the great momentum. This old dragon has a violent temper and mmediately flooded the city of Beijing, so Zhu Di asked retired magician Yao Guangxiao and his Luban four heroes to go out and lock the beast in the dry well near a small bridge. A hundred years later descendants of the four masters of Luban gathered again to explore the truth of Suolong Well

8.0

La France en Vrai - Sugar

Apr 12, 2021

Filmed behind closed doors in a castle, five young women aged 19 to 27 talk about how they became "sugar babies." This term refers to young women who agree to accompany older, often wealthy men in exchange for cash, gifts, or paid rent. Is this a mutually beneficial arrangement or disguised prostitution? Specialized dating sites exist, avoiding any reference to sex, even though it is an important part of the relationship. With courage, these five women candidly describe what their lives as "sugar babies" are like.

8.0

A Way Home

Nov 22, 2020

When filmmaker Karima Saïdi’s mother Aïcha develops Alzheimer’s at the end of her life, Karima decides to make a film portrait of her at her Brussels care home. Before oblivion descends for good. Aïcha is becoming increasingly confused, and Karima takes her on mental journey back into her past. The filmmaker uses Aïcha’s stories and a wide range of family archive material to create an impression of Aïcha’s life. We start with her youth in Morocco, are shown how her husband brought her from Tangiers to Belgium, and how she later went on to raise her children as a single mother.

0.0

The Sex Side of Low Budget Films

Jan 1, 2004

This film will take you into a world seen by few people. Go behind the scenes in the movie business and see what happens when sex scenes are being filmed. This film is raw, unedited and very graphic.

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0.0

Bitch

Nov 1, 2001

This film is about the war. Where evil begets evil. Where there is no politics, questions and answers. This is a metaphysical, documentary parable about the endless war, as such. When it doesn't matter where this war is going or if there is an enemy at all. And the war has been going on since the creation of the world. And it multiplies. And her name is "Bitch".

0.0

The First Breath of Tengan Rei

Jan 1, 2009

An Okinawan woman kidnaps the teenage son of a U.S. Marine convicted of raping her when she was a girl.

0.0

Céu de Lua, Chão de Estrelas

May 20, 2022

No overview available.

5.3

Devil's Men

Sep 11, 2023

The horrors of war through the eyes of a real WWII soldier who helped form our special forces. Sam Byrne was a Wyoming ranch boy drafted into doing his duty, even though he was a deeply religious man who didn’t believe in killing. Unwilling to kill, he quickly learns how to adapt, eventually saving many of his platoon in the Battle of Anzio and showing the heart of a hero.

6.8

Elvis & Priscilla: Conditional Love

Jun 10, 2023

Elvis and Priscilla are one of the most famous celebrity couples of all time. But the story that lies beneath the glamorous facade is more toxic than what first meets the eye. Elvis has defined Pricilla's life. His comment that she was "young enough that he could train her any way he wanted", in the end, came true. Though their relationship was bound by true love, what were the conditions that let it flourish?

6.0

También esto pasará

May 9, 2025

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