The Cool World
30/9/2015,21:30,Ταινιοθήκη της Ελλάδος
Vividly and spontaneously shot in the streets of Harlem, with expressive young actors and an improvised jazz score by Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Mingus, this impressively naturalistic landmark film of the American independent cinema still rings poetic.
Shirley Clarke's restless camera breathlessly follows young Duke in New York's black ghetto and records in atmospheric black and white his desperate quest to arm himself against the despair that surrounds him daily: rat-infested tenements, garbage filled street, drugs, pimps, prostitutes and gangs. Shirley Clarke avoids all moral judgment and preaching of any kind, moves with masterful grace between narrative and documentary and records perhaps for the first time a realistic portrait of the black community miles away from Hollywood's picturesque iconography. At the same time, she manages to create a unique improvisational jazz choreography of nighttime New York, an unforgettable ride in Harlem's dark alleys under the cool rhythms of Dizzy Gillespie's sensational music.
Σκηνοθεσία / Director
Shirley Clarke
Σενάριο / Screenwriters
Shirley Clarke, Carl Lee
Φωτογραφία / DoP
Baird Bryant
Μουσική / Music
Mal Waldron, Dizzy Gillespie
Μοντάζ / Editor
Shirley Clarke
Ηθοποιοί / Principal Cast
Hampton Clanton, Yolanda Rodríguez
Bostic Felton, Gary Bolling
Clarence Williams III, Gloria Foster
ΗΠΑ / USA
1964
Ασπρόμαυρο / Black & White
16mm
104'
Αγγλικά / English
