Flaming Creatures - Constantine Verevis (Cultographies) Action & Martial Arts 'Amour' Director: Michael Haneke (2012)

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

'Smiles of a Summer Night' (1955)

Narrated by Liam Neeson

The debut film of the esteemed and influential director is bleak but beautiful

'The Thin Red Line' Director: Terrence Malick (1998) Criterion Collection 'director approved' restoration

Flaming Creatures - Constantine Verevis (Cultographies) Action & Martial Arts 'Amour' Director: Michael Haneke (2012)Banned 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.