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1967 (DVD: Aug 09)

Colour

Subtitles: Optional for hearing-impaired

Published/distributed by BFI

ISBN/EAN: 5035673008225

Ratio 1.78:1

Region 2

Price: £17.61
(Including VAT at 15%)

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Flipside: Herostratus

Levy, Don

When Max, a young poet (played by the iconic Michael Gothard) hires a marketing company to turn his suicide-by-jumping into a mass-media spectacle, he finds that his subversive intentions are quickly diluted into a reactionary gesture, and his motivations are revealed as a desperate attempt to seek attention through celebrity.

Unseen since its limited release in 1967, this audacious and prescient - yet criminally overlooked - work by experimental filmmaker Don Levy left a profound mark on the landscape of late-1960s British cinema, with echoes of its visual style evident in the more celebrated work of such notable directors as Stanley Kubrick, Nicolas Roeg and Michael Winner.

Extras
* Newly transferred to High Definition from the original negative under the supervision of Levy associate, Amnon Buchbinder
* Interview with Don Levy (1973), the only known recording of Levy discussing Herostratus
* Ten Thousand Talents (1960, 24 mins): Levy's student film, set in Cambridge, featuring the voice of Peter Cook
* Time Is (1964, 29 mins): Levy's remarkable experimental documentary
* Five Films (1967, 9 mins): Levy's hypnotic experiments in film editing techniques
* Extensive illustrated booklet with newly commissioned contributors and original documentation
* Dolby Digital mono audio (320 kbps)

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