Vinegar Syndrome's Etiquette Pictures has detailed its second Blu-ray release of directors Lawrence Schiller and L.M. Kit Carson's
The American Dreamer (1971), starring Dennis Hopper and L.M. Kit Carson. The release will be available for purchase on September 22.
Synopsis: The wild, unexpected success of Easy Rider ushered in what is now seen as one of the most significant turning points in film history, making pathologically rebellious Dennis Hopper an unlikely King Of Hollywood for a day. Hopper's follow-up work, The Last Movie, a deeply personal, but ultimately disastrous, meditation on the meaning of cinema, found Hopper drifting further and further into foolishness. Captured by co-directors Lawrence Schiller and L.M. Kit Carson, The American Dreamer is a multi-faceted document of the life and mind of one of the 20th century's great cinematic voices at the peak of his artistic and commercial success. Shifting between being an insightful document of a complex artist in the midst of his creative process and a self-reflective exploration and explosion of vérité filmmaking tropes, The American Dreamer is a mesmerizing journey into the private world of one of Hollywood's most hypnotic directors/stars. Fortuitously timed, fantastically made, and virtually unseen, The American Dreamer is the great 70s film documentary you always wished existed.
Etiquette Pictures, in partnership with the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, brings this forgotten masterpiece to home video for the very first time in a new, Director approved 2k restoration, painstakingly reconstructed from four 16mm prints housed in the Walker Art Center s Ruben/Bentson Moving Image Collection. Major support to preserve, digitize, and present this film and the entire Ruben/Bentson Moving Image Collection is generously provided by the Bentson Foundation.
Specs and Special Features:
- Scanned & Restored in 2K from 16mm Vault Elements
- "Fighting Against the Wind" 30 minute Making-of Featurette
- "A Long Way Home" 7 minute Preservation Featurette
- Extensive Photograph Gallery
- Booklet & Essay by Chris Poggiali
- Reversible Cover
- English SDH Subtitles
Note: Etiquette Pictures' first Blu-ray release was James B. Harris' film
Some Call It Loving (1973), starring Zalman King, Carol White, Tisa Farrow, Richard Pryor, Veronica and Anderson. You can see our listing and review of this release
here.