The third of Norman Mailer's four attempts to have his way with a medium not his own has a bit more in the way of fantasy projection than even his previous efforts could have prepared an audience for.
As Norman Kingsley, a world-class filmmaker with Presidential aspirations, Mailer waddles around a vast Long Island estate, waxes philosophical on whatever he can think of, and has his squat, pudgy way with any number of young lovelies ready to give themselves, soul and body, for the kind of immortality only his attentions can bring. Inspired as only a recidivist fantasy merchant can be under such circumstances, Mailer hurls himself on his own movie with a kind of grandiose relish that manages to give Maidstone, even at its looniest (and this is an extremely loony film) a strange kind of authenticity. As usual the cast consists of the novelist's friends, wives (current and future), hangers-on and assorted weirdos.
Not to be missed, of course, is that immortal, unrehearsed moment when one of the few professional actors in the cast, the great Rip Torn, attempts to kill Mailer onscreen.
This comes from an extremely good VHS source (XviD), with French hardsubs.
Enjoy the madness!
Filesize: 700MB
Duration: 01:44:55
Resolution: 640x416
Video bitrate: 821 kb/s
Audio bitrate: 103 kb/s
Maidstone (1969).avi
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