Flaming Creatures - Constantine Verevis (Cultographies) Action & Martial Arts The debut film of the

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

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

'Smiles of a Summer Night' (1955)

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

Lambert Hillyer

Flaming Creatures - Constantine Verevis (Cultographies) Action & Martial Arts The debut film of theBanned 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.