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Directed by: Don Levy
When Max, a young poet (played by the iconic Michael Gothard) hires a marketing company to turn his suicide-by-jumping into a mass-media spectacle, he finds that his subversive intentions are quickly diluted into a reactionary gesture, and his motivations are revealed as a desperate attempt to seek attention through celebrity.
Unseen since its limited release in 1967, this audacious and prescient - yet criminally overlooked - work by experimental filmmaker Don Levy left a profound mark on the landscape of late-1960s British cinema, with echoes of its visual style evident in the more celebrated work of such notable directors as Stanley Kubrick, Nicolas Roeg and Michael Winner.
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Format:
Blu-ray
Discs:
BD-50 (1 Disc)
BD-25 (1 Disc)
Total: 2 Discs
Regions:
A/B/C (Blu-ray)
Aspect Ratio:
1.37:1
1.78:1
Audio Options:
English PCM Mono 2.0
Resolution:
1080p/24
Subtitles:
English
Supplements
Types of Supplements Included: Alternate Version, Interview, Short Film, Booklet
- Widescreen and Full Frame Versions of the Film
- Interview with Don Levy (1973), the only known recording of Levy discussing Herostratus
- Ten Thousand Talents (1960, 24 mins): Levy's student film, set in Cambridge, featuring the voice of Peter Cook
- Time Is (1964, 29 mins): Levy's remarkable experimental documentary
- Five Films (1967, 9 mins): Levy's hypnotic experiments in film editing techniques
- Extensive illustrated booklet with newly commissioned contributors and original documentation
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