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Michael Reeves (Paperback)
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Michael Reeves (Paperback)
Series: British Film-Makers
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Cine-literate and single-minded, Michael Reeves took on
exploitative film production companies, the British censors, and
even Vincent Price to create a unique vision of savage poetry and
lacerating despair: Witchfinder General. He died aged 25 in 1969,
between the end of Swinging London and the collapse of the British
film industry - an apt candidate to represent all that could have
been. This critical biography claims Reeves as the great, lost
auteur of British cinema and traces his conception of film back to
his childhood and formative experiences. Benjamin Halligan examines
Reeves's films in the context of the times, citing The Sorcerers
and Witchfinder General as foreshadowing and critiquing the
psychedelic and revolutionary zeitgeist. Reeves's earlier work on
the fringes of the freewheeling European exploitation cinema is
also covered, with particular emphasis on his Revenge of the Blood
Beast. Drawing on recollections from colleagues, friends and
family, many speaking here for the first time, draft scripts,
correspondence and original documentation pertaining to the
controversial censorship of Witchfinder, and Reeves's struggle with
his own private demons, Halligan creates a complete picture of this
elusive, driven figure and his films. He speculates on what Reeves
would have gone on to achieve, and why this should still matter. --
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