Paradise Now (1970)

  • NR
  • 03/21/1970 (US)
  • Documentary
  • 1h 45m

Overview

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.

Sheldon Rochlin

Director

Cast

Diana Van Tosh's headshot

Diana Van Tosh

Self
Jim Anderson's headshot

Jim Anderson

Self
Franck Hogeboom's headshot

Franck Hogeboom

Self
Julian Beck's headshot

Julian Beck

Judith Malina's headshot

Judith Malina

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