Flaming Creatures - Constantine Verevis (Cultographies) Action & Martial Arts After a decade of exile

After a decade of exile in the US

gorgeous silvery cinematography and some social satire add up to one of the great comedies of the Classical Hollywood period

'Amour' Director: Michael Haneke (2012) Starring Jean-Louis Trintignant

Lambert Hillyer

Flaming Creatures - Constantine Verevis (Cultographies) Action & Martial Arts After a decade of exileBanned soon after its first midnight screenings, the prints seized and the organizers arrested, Jack Smiths incendiary Flaming Creatures (1963) quickly became a cause clbre of the New York underground. Tracing the films production and reception history, Constantine Verevis argues that it embodies a unique type of cinematic rewriting, one that combines Smiths multifaceted artistic work with exotic fragments drawn from the cinematic past.