Film Series
From the Third Eye: Evergreen Review on Film
Curated by Ed Halter
Founded and managed by legendary Grove Press publisher Barney Rosset, Evergreen Review was the American counterculture’s foremost magazine, bringing the best in radical art, literature, and politics to newsstands across the US, from the late 1950s to the early 1970s. Grove launched its Film Division in the mid-1960s, and quickly became one of the most important and innovative film distributors of its time, while Evergreen published incisive essays on cinema by writers like Parker Tyler, Amos Vogel, Nat Hentoff, Norman Mailer, and many others.
In anticipation of the release of From the Third Eye: The Evergreen Review Film Reader, edited by Rosset and critic Ed Halter, this series brings together a provocative selection of the often controversial films that were championed by this seminal publication—including many distributed by Grove itself—vividly illustrating how filmmakers worked to redefine cinema in an era of sexual, social, and political revolution.
Grove Press’ Barney Rosset produced this potent look at racism in postwar America.
This politically charged program captures the social upheaval of the late 1960s.
Factory stars Viva, Taylor Mead, and others go out to eat in Andy Warhol’s sexploitation satire.
Grove Press created a smash with this sensual, politically radical Swedish film.
Lionel Rogosin’s landmark docudrama captures daily life in apartheid-era South Africa.
A bawdy picaresque based on Henry Miller’s autobiographical novella.
A Yugoslavian Black Wave satire about a group of slogan-spouting Marxist revolutionaries.
Susan Sontag made her first foray into film with this absurdist seriocomedy.
A candid look at 60s queer and drag culture via the 1967 Miss All-America Camp Beauty Pageant.
The sexploitation documentary Freedom to Love is presented alongside early erotic curios.
Renegade auteur Nagisa Oshima’s masterpiece is a haunting indictment of Japanese society.
Godard’s apocalyptically funny black comedy, plus an animated Freudian parody.
Marguerite Duras’ hypnotic film about five alienated people in an unworldly hotel.
Dennis Hopper’s notorious follow-up to Easy Rider is a $1 million avant-garde freak-out.
A foul-mouthed animated short and William Klein’s Pop Art-inspired spoof of US foreign policy.
Alain Robbe-Grillet shot this stylish mindgame in the wake of the Prague Spring.
Iconoclastic Greek auteur Nikos Papatakis was attached to both of these banned films.
James Joyce’s supposedly unfilmable novel gets a thrillingly imaginative treatment.
This portrait of iconic novelist Mailer considers the man from all sides.
A program comprising two documents from Jean-Luc Godard’s militant Maoist phase.