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Film Information
Coming Apart
Director:
Milton Moses Ginsberg
Starring:
Rip Torn, Sally Kirkland, Viveca Lindfors
Country:
U.S.
Genres:
American Independent, Avant Garde, Romance
Type:
B&W
Year:
1969
Language:
English
Length:
111 mins.
Aspect Ratio:
1.85.1
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Synopsis
THIS FILM IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE FROM KINO
Rip Torn gives one of the great screen performances as a psychiatrist secretly filming his own mental breakdown in Milton Moses Ginsberg's classic exploration of dark eroticism and self-referential cinematic form. Anticipating the camcorder-driven, diary films of today, the entire film is shot into a mirror from a single camera angle in a one-room apartment. Psychoanalyst Joe Glazer, aka Glassman, rents a studio apartment in a towering glass-walled skyscraper, away from his office and his pregnant wife, where he has a variety of sexual encounters with a series of women -- all of which he films with a hidden camera. But always looking over his shoulder, Joe becomes a voyeur of his own life, the camera his only mode of communication. Until finally encased in his own reflection, Joe ends up filming his own disintegration.
Although entirely scripted, this fierce, frank and explicit film seems improvised. The acting is so explosive it seems uncontrolled and the sex scenes have been described as real and pornographic. In dramatic opposition to Hollywood's narrative filmmaking aesthetic, Ginsberg calls attention to the presence of the camera, abandoning cinema's "omniscient eye" for a deliberately conscious "camera eye." Truly ahead of its time, Coming Apart remains a visionary and transformative piece of American cinema.
Starring Rip Torn, Sally Kirkland, and Viveca Lindfors (Weddings & Babies).
Critical Acclaim
"(four and-a-half stars) Rough stuff...Rip Torn turns in a brilliantly controlled performance." - Gene Siskel, The Chicago Tribune
"One of the most challenging, visionary, important films of independent cinema." - Indiewire
"A stunningly raw piece of filmmaking!" - The New York Daily News
Extras on DVD
Coming Apart 2: Adventures in Re-releasing - In this series of Q&A sessions presented around the country, Rip Torn talks about the spirit of the set, Sally Kirkland discourses on the acting style of the film, and Milton Moses Ginsberg participates in a psychoanalytic seminar on Coming Apart at the American Psychiatric Convention.
The City Below The Line (1999) - Milton Moses Ginsberg's 36-minute dramatic video revisits the filmmaker's continuing preoccupation with self-referential cinema and the visual correlatives of consciousness. "In this bracing, self-lacerating video, underground icon Ginsberg re-imagines Dostoevsky's Notes From the Underground as the densely textured travails of a New York film editor grappling with a sexual illness. The universality is frightening." - Eddie Cockrell
How To Fall Into Oblivion And Take Your Movie With You - An essay by director Milton Moses Ginsberg.
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