Label: Re:Voir

絶対にお見逃しなく！！アンガス・マクリーズのブートLPにもサントラが収録された[Chumlum]オリジナルムービーが収録されています！！その自由なスタイルにて1960年代初頭のニューヨーク及びカリフォルニアのフィルムメーカー達に影響を与えた超重要人物のロン・ライス。ボブ・カウフマンを含むビート詩人やプロでない俳優達が出演した事で知られる氏の名作[The Flower Thief]がRe:Voirより遂にDVD化！！更にアンガス・マクリーズの激ヤバな楽曲がバッチリとハマった1964年フィルム[Chumlum]やボーナスフィルムも収録されており、もはや悶絶級のアーカイヴとなっています！！55ページのブックレットが付属。



Our fifth release in a series of titles we are releasing in cooperation with The New York Film-makers' Cooperative.

'The Flower Thief', filmed and acted by New York and San Francisco "beats," is a collection of improvisations. Ron Rice, the film's creator, attempted to ignore or break all the rules of cinema craft in making this film. Its form is the picaresque novel, a genre dating from the Middle Ages in which a rogue has a series of loosely connected adventures which reveal his personality and his relations to the world around him. Don Quixote in the Renaissance, Huckleberry Finn in the nineteenth century, and the tramp of Charlie Chaplin in our own times are picaresque heroes. Ron Rice's contribution to this tradition is his flower thief, a mad, harmless homosexual. Wandering through the streets of San Francisco with his teddy bear, indifferent to authority, stealing flowers because he likes them, and experiencing the basic human emotions, he is also The Noble Savage.
-P. Adams Sitney, Film Culture

I still think that 'The Flower Thief' is one of the most important modern films, a beautiful absurd poem. And so is his new film, 'Senseless'.The bullfight in negative is a fantastic shot; and so is the sequence with the beatnicks on Acapulco beach; or the train robbery episode; or the shot of the Virgin of Guadalupe surrounded by light; or the oil wells at night. It is beautiful and wild.
-Jonas Mekas

'The Flower Thief', like all significant cinema,holds before society a mirror image of its weaknesses and its disease. The Flower Thief is an eloquent plea for natural and humble participation in life.
- Mary Batten, Film Comment

FILMS
The Mexican Footage, 1950, 8'30"
The Flower Thief, 1960, 58'
Senseless, 1962, 24'
Chumlum, 1964, 23'

bonus : Outtakes - The Queen of Sheba Meets the Atom Man, 1982, 6'
Includes a 55-pages bilingual EN/FR booklet with texts by Wheeler Winston Dixon, Barry Clark, Marry Batten & Ron Rice.