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Year: 1963, 82 minsDVD/Streaming - PAL Code: RV-Ado
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A film by Adolfas Mekas with Peter H. Beard, Marty Greenbaum, Sheila Finn, Peggy Steffans, Jerome Hill, Taylor Mead. Camera: Ed Emshwiller. Assistant: Jonas Mekas. Editing: Adolfas Mekas. Music: Meyer Kupferman.New Bonus:Hallelujah the Villa, by David Avallone, 2006, 28 mins.The First NY Film Festival, from Camera Three, 1963, mins.
Adolfas Mekas, born in Lithuania, arrived in the United States with his brother Jonas in 1949. They founded Film Culture, the magazine of independent cinema, in 1954. Adolfas Mekas's Hallelujah the Hills bears witness to his knowledge and love of cinema, as well as the immense freedom to be found in all the films of the New American Cinema.Contains a 20-page booklet with a new article by Frédérique Devaux.
"Even avowed enemies of the New American Cinema, so called, were impressed by the film's lack of pretentions and its unexpected lyricism and Zen serenity in the midst of nervous parody." - Andrew Sarris, Village Voice, 1963"A satire on the American way of life, and at the same time a hymn to the joys of youth and friendship." - Richard Roud"I don't doubt that Adolfas Mekas has extremely subtle and elaborate theories of cinema, but his film totally escapes the manifest. He is happy to carry us with disconcerting ease into a world of inspired horseplay, evoking novels by David Ogden Stewart or plays by Ring Lardner, but nothing that has ever been done in cinema." - Robert Benayoun, 1963
"Hallelujah the Hills is a gloriously funny and far-out farce about two great big overgrown boy scouts who pratfall in love with the same girl. The weirdest, wooziest, wackiest screen comedy, a slapstick poem, an intellectual hellzapoppin, a gloriously fresh experiment and experience in the cinema of the absurd, the first cubistic comedy of the new world cinema." - Time Magazine, 1963.
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