Hallelujah the Hills

United States

1963

88 Min

Black and White

1.66:1

English

Currently 4.1/5 Stars.
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CAST Peter Beard, Martin Greenbaum, Sheila Finn, Blanche Dee, Ed Emshwiller, Peter Emshwiller, Susan Emshwiller, Jerome Hill, Taylor Mead, Jerome Raphael, Peggy Steffans

ED Louis Brigante, Adolfas Mekas

SOUND Ray Malon, Phillip Burton Jr.

Cannes (Semaine de la critique)

Director

Adolfas Mekas

Adolfas Mekas (born 1925 in Lithuania) is a Lithuanian film director, and brother of Jonas Mekas.

Prior to the World War II, Mekas and his brother Jonas Mekas had set up a theatre. Later, in a camp for displaced persons, they studied with a teacher of the Stanislavsky System. The brothers emigrated to the United States in 1949. They studied with Hans Richter before establishing Film Culture magazine in 1955.

Adolfas Mekas directed a number of films including Hallelujah The Hills and Going Home, both of which are considered landmarks of the New American Cinema movement. In 1971 Adolfas Mekas joined the newly formed film department at Bard College, which was soon dubbed the “Peoples’ Film Department” under his Chairmanship. He continued to teach at Bard until retiring in May 2004. —Wikipedia

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adrianmendizabal

1Feb12

It plays like one of Guy Maddin films with a lot of references from past films especially from the Silent Era. It's one great American avant-garde film with a structure based on digressions, hallucinations, exaggerations, and surreal elements molding together visions of the two main characters as they reminisce their relationship with a girl named Vera and their descent to lunacy.