Curtis Harrington: Cinema on the Edge

by Amy Butler Greenfield (Editor)

Cultural Writing. This collection of interviews, essays and commentary on acclaimed director Curtis Harrington-whose films include "Usher," "Night Tide," "What's the Matter with Helen?" and "The Killing Kind"-seeks to illuminate the sinister chiaroscuro of his films. Interviews with Harrington and Dennis Hopper, tributes by Debbie Reynolds and Shelley Winters, and critical essays by Edward Crouse offer a comprehensive glimpse at the Harrington's films, and the man himself. Harrington's films, in editor Amy Greenfield's words, depict "a sometimes gaudy, sometimes elegant, sometimes ordinary daily world within which lurks a savage and mysterious poetry, which, even at the moment when the glimmerings of his character's spirits seem to be stamped out, ignites the screen and calls us toward the unseen through a cinema which can instill objects with magic - the magic of a child's belief in the life of objects and the tribal belief in the life of images."

91 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2005

Reviews

[The Art Book Review · Rating 4 out of 5]

"Let us not fool ourselves: the experimental film, ostensibly free from the aforementioned tyranny, is too trifling, too in love with its petty effects, too introverted, too lazy, and most often ends as a victim, also, for its means by circumstance have been too transcribed" -- Drew Heitzler on "Curtis Harrington: Cinema on the Edge"

Read the review by Drew Heitzler: http://theartbookreview.org/2012/08/2...