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Savage Eye, The (1960)
Rating:
Starring: Barbara Baxley, Gary Merrill
Director: Ben Maddow, Sidney Meyers, Joseph Strick
Category: Drama, Special Interest, Avant Garde, Documentary
Studio: Image Ent.
Subtitles:
[None]
Length:
89 mins

 
 

 

This multiple award-winning drama takes the new form of a story told using documentary material as an intrinsic part of the narrative.In this journey through the dark side of 1950s urban life, the camera follows Judith - a newly divorced woman for a fresh start - through the streets of Los Angeles as she encounters the strange denizens of the city, ranging from trendsetters to religious fanatics.All the tawdry and desperate faces of this world become a mirror for Judith's personal failures and struggles to claim her new life.

Filmed over the course of several years, The Savage Eye was the product of a unique teaming of three exemplary filmmakers: Ben Maddow (The Asphalt Jungle), Sidney Meyers (The Quiet Eye), and Academy Award winner Joseph Strick (Ulysses).Their collaboration dazzled critics and was honored with several international film festival awards, as well as the British Film Academy's prestigious Robert Flaherty Award for Best Documentary.The compelling camera work is the compiled efforts of cinematographers Jack Couffer (Jonathan Livingston Seagull), Helen Levitt (The Balcony), and two-time Academy Award winner Haskell Wexler (One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest).

Added Bonus:Interviews With My Lai Veterans:
The Academy Award-winning documentary makes an unflinching exploration of the 1968 massacre of the Vietnamese village of My Lai by U.S. armed forces.Acclaimed filmmaker Joseph Strick interviews five of the soldiers involved in the horrific killing to go behind the shocking tragedy and view it from the perspective of seemingly average, everyday American men trapped in military madness.