  Eclipse Series 9 - The Delirious Fictions Of William Klein - Eclipse From Criterion (Criterion Collection) (Dvd)Eclipse Series 9 - The Delirious Fictions Of William Klein - Eclipse From Criterion (Criterion Collection) (Dvd)
UPC Number: 715515028523
Actors: Delirious Fictions of William Klein
Format: Box set, Black & White, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Language: English, French
Region: Region 1
Aspect ratio: 1.66:1
Number of discs: 3
Studio: Criterion Collection
Release date: March 25, 2008
Run time: 293 minutes
Product Description
William Klein s explosive, challenging New York street photography made him one of the most heralded artists of the fifties. An American expatriate in Paris, Klein has also been making challenging cinema for over forty years, yet, with the exception of his acclaimed 1969 documentary MUHAMMAD ALI, THE GREATEST, his film work is barely known in the United States. In his three fiction features WHO ARE YOU, POLLY MAGGOO?, MR. FREEDOM, and THE MODEL COUPLE he skewers the fashion industry, American imperialism, and middle-class complacency with hilarious, cutting aplomb. Today, Klein s politically galvanizing and insanely entertaining social critiques seem even more ahead of their time than works of the more famous New Wavers that overshadowed them: colorful, surreal antidotes to all
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