Director: Norman Mailer, USA, 1968/71
An improvised and intense psychodrama, Maidstone celebrates a highly popular though esoteric film director Norman T. Kingsley, who is casting a remake of Bunuel’s Belle de Jour. Also considering a run for the US presidency, Kingsley finds himself being scrutinized by both the Eastern establishment and an elite secret police organization ostensibly formed to protect him from assassination.
Introduced by Michael Chaiken.
Director: Stan Vanderbeek, USA, 1968
A haunting view of man drawn in brilliant animation graphics. The title alludes to Robert Kennedy’s dying words ‘oh. . .oh. . . oh. . .‘