Flaming Creatures - Constantine Verevis (Cultographies) Action & Martial Arts 'The Breaking Point' Director: Michael

'The Breaking Point' Director: Michael Curtiz (1950) Criterion collection Blu-ray|  new interviews

'The Agnes Varda Collection Volume 2'  4 Discs

Narrated by Liam Neeson

gorgeous silvery cinematography and some social satire add up to one of the great comedies of the Classical Hollywood period

Flaming Creatures - Constantine Verevis (Cultographies) Action & Martial Arts 'The Breaking Point' Director: MichaelBanned soon after its first midnight screenings, the prints seized and the organizers arrested, Jack Smiths incendiary Flaming Creatures (1963) quickly became a cause clbre of the New York underground. Tracing the films production and reception history, Constantine Verevis argues that it embodies a unique type of cinematic rewriting, one that combines Smiths multifaceted artistic work with exotic fragments drawn from the cinematic past.