Hallelujah the Hills

Hallelujah the Hills (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Mono )
French ( Subtitles )
German ( Subtitles )
Italian ( Subtitles )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
119 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Short Film
Booklet

Movie filmed in 1963 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Adolfas Mekas

Written By:
Adolfas Mekas

Actors:
Peter Beard ..... Jack
Sheila Finn ..... Jack's Vera
Martin Greenbaum ..... Leo
Peggy Steffans ..... Leo's Vera
Jerome Raphael ..... Father
Blanche Dee ..... Mother
Jerome Hill ..... Convict I
Taylor Mead ..... Convict II
Peter Emshwiller ..... Boy Child
Ed Emshwiller ..... Gideon
Susan Emshwiller ..... Girl Child
Eve Emshwiller ..... Girl child

Synopsis:

When two young men fall in love with the same woman, they each pursue her at different times of the year and in different settings. Written and directed by Adolfas Mekas, this is an interesting film technique in that it is right out of the 60s in poking fun at its own attempts at seriousness. Even the young woman pursued is portrayed by two different actresses according to the season in which she is being pursued. An interesting and ultimately likeable film.

Hallelujah the Hills is a gloriously funny and far-out farce about two great big overgrown boy scouts who pratfall in love with the same girl. The weirdest, wooziest, wackiest screen comedy, a slapstick poem, an intellectual hellzapoppin, a gloriously fresh experiment and experience in the cinema of the absurd, the first cubistic comedy of the new world cinema. Adolfas Mekas, born in Lithuania, arrived in the United States with his brother Jonas in 1949. They founded Film Culture, the magazine of independent cinema, in 1954. Adolfas Mekas's Hallelujah the Hills bears witness to his knowledge and love of cinema, as well as the immense freedom to be found in all the films of the New American Cinema.

Impromptu film of the romance of a girl who is courted by two shy young men, and eventually swept off her feet by a stranger.

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 21 July, 2011.

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