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It's the summer of 1968. And Matt Caulfield is about to grow up the hard way.
It's dynamite stuff.
Purple Haze
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Chicago International Film Festival
Theatrical limited
06 May 1983
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01 Oct 1982
- PremiereR Chicago International Film Festival
06 May 1983
- Theatrical limited USA Film Festival
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Everything here is cliched--like every single thing you can think of when it comes to hippies, counterculture, guy trying his best to avoid the draft, 1968, (hell at one point he and a date go to see "The Graduate" and he's quite taken by how its leading character refuses to accept whatever plan life has laid out for him) Even a scene where the guy meets an old friend whom he hadn't seen in years and is soon sitting on a diving board high up and talking about life and stuff while toking up---and then the friend takes him to a party filled with hippies. There is nothing here that hasn't been done in countless other films about the time…
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Missing Movies title of the week! Director David Burton Homes says that it was a Columbia title and thinks the rights have reverted to MGM. Since then, the film has been in limbo. Any information would be appreciated!
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PURPLE HAZE (1982)
Dir: David Burton Morris"Purple Haze" (Cineplex Beverly Center, Laemmie's Monica, Sherman Oaks Cinema, UA Costa Mesa from Nov. 18) was FIlmex-83's-reviewed 4-15, but here's my full review from my private files.
"Purple Haze" (U.S. '82), extremely well-acted, -lensed, and -directed for a low-budget indie, nevertheless is a crass film which attempts to simplify the domestic conflicts that occurred during the political and generational turmoil in America 1968; what's worse, where my much-liked '80 "A Small Circle of Friends" (A; ironically got started at a Filmex) dealt with people inside the system (and campus), director David Burton Morris and writer Victoria Wozniak's effort involves us with a school drop-out (or toss-out), a deep-dish and ill-fated neurotic pal,…
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The Trylon screened a 35mm print of this hard-to-see, Minnesota-made indie from the eighties. I’d never heard of it ahead of their programming announcement and was surprised to learn it won the Sundance Grand Prize! The filmmakers were present before the show, and they explained how the music rights have expired, so it would now take millions of dollars to restore that licensing. The soundtrack features classic tracks from the Jimi Hendrix Experience, Buffalo Springfield, Sly and the Family Stone, and more.
It’s a shame, because this has the potential to be reclaimed as an indie gem. While set during the late sixties/Vietnam War era, it captures a post-college malaise that feels present and familiar. The main character is a…
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Captures the verve of the late 1960s in America, the uncertain search for purpose in a sea of drugs, sex, angry parents, foreign wars, the draft, and above all, music. This movie could not exist without its soundtrack, a veritable playlist of so many greatest hits from that generation. It's handsomely shot on a very modest budget, the loose narrative allowing the songs to cascade from scene to scene, collectively accentuating their deep soulfulness. Like most of you, I've heard these songs countless times before, but I don't believe I ever felt them and the bygone era they conjure up quite like I did while watching this film.
The music is both the movie's blessing and its curse. It's notoriously…
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Trylon - 35mm
David Burton Morris (Director) & Victoria Wozniak (Screenwriter) in attendance