Normal Love (Jack Smith, 1963) VHSRip

[trep]

IMDb - Useless btw...
Bright Lights Film Journal

Though Jack Smith never quite completed Normal Love (1963), what he left behind maintains a consistent level of intensity, its weirdly costumed characters cavorting before the camera in role-playing more twisted than the word "drag" could ever convey. Mostly filmed the year Smith’s orgy-comedy Flaming Creatures became a famous obscenity case, Normal Love is a kind of lyrical sequel, replacing the earlier film's bleached-out black and white with lush color (faded somewhat in this restoration) and its urban claustrophobia with rural locales outside New York City. Over the years Smith showed Normal Love in various versions; the present film was assembled using notes from actual screenings and records he's known to have played with it. His cast of "creatures," including Mario Montez and Tiny Tim, perform in a series of disjointed sequences that oscillate between trancelike impersonation and utterly reflexive self-parody: a mermaid in a tub, for example, is larger than life yet totally ridiculous, her tail phonier than the worst B-movie costume. Smith's gender-fuck visions, more radical than mainstream concepts of drag, conflate dress-up with striptease, ludicrous acting with a sure belief that one can become one's costume. His visual style is a dense and demented re-creation of von Sternberg, the smallest fashion accessory a radiant surface as camera and character--and character and costume--move in a coordinated ballet at once graceful and spastic.

VIDEO: [DIVX] 704x480 24bpp 23,976 fps 1568,9 kbps (191,5 kbyte/s)
AUDIO: [MP3] 48000 Hz, 2 ch, 16 bit (0x10), ratio: 16000->192000 (128,0 kbit)

NOTES: This film was never completed, and nobody seems to agree on its "lenght". The recently restored cut seems to run 105 minutes. This VHS - I believe the only cut that was available before the restoration - is just ~60 minutes long. The quality is very watchable (I found a much better filter for inverse-telecine, btw), yet be aware that the picture "jumps" frequently. If your player doesn't read the aspect ratio header (i.e. if you don't use mplayer) you should manually resize the picture to 4:3 : this was done on purpose to avoid any rescaling of the DVDR source material.

GET IT NOW, AS I'M NOT SURE NEXT WEEK I'LL BE ONLINE! (Thanks!)

Jack Smith - Normal Love (1963 - 56 min. - VHSrip).avi




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La versión sin mutilar (106 minutos) está unos mensajes más abajo:

• TVRip

[auess]

THANKS-tHaNkS-ThAnKs!!! jack smith's always AMAZING.
Thx! Trep you'r GREAT!

[Arcadia_Ego]

True.

[trep]

IMDb - 9.7/10 (5 votes)
Bright Lights Film Journal

By 1965, Jack Smith was exhibiting versions of Normal Love, mixing his soundtracks live and often re-editing the film as it was being shown. After Smith's death, Jerry Tartaglia prepared this restored 105-minute version, which premiered in 1997. Although shot on backdated color-film stock and paced more languidly than Flaming Creatures, Normal Love again features women and cross-dressed men in an idyll of sexual anarchy. Smith filmed almost entirely outdoors, emphasizing pinks and greens in the scenery, costumes, and props, and combining textural passages with allusions to film icons such as the Mummy and the Werewolf, Maria Montez, and Busby Berkeley. The inspired finale is set atop a massive pink cake (where the dancing Cake Cuties include Andy Warhol).

Though Jack Smith never quite completed Normal Love (1963), what he left behind maintains a consistent level of intensity, its weirdly costumed characters cavorting before the camera in role-playing more twisted than the word "drag" could ever convey. Mostly filmed the year Smith’s orgy-comedy Flaming Creatures became a famous obscenity case, Normal Love is a kind of lyrical sequel, replacing the earlier film's bleached-out black and white with lush color (faded somewhat in this restoration) and its urban claustrophobia with rural locales outside New York City. Over the years Smith showed Normal Love in various versions; the present film was assembled using notes from actual screenings and records he's known to have played with it. His cast of "creatures," including Mario Montez and Tiny Tim, perform in a series of disjointed sequences that oscillate between trancelike impersonation and utterly reflexive self-parody: a mermaid in a tub, for example, is larger than life yet totally ridiculous, her tail phonier than the worst B-movie costume. Smith's gender-fuck visions, more radical than mainstream concepts of drag, conflate dress-up with striptease, ludicrous acting with a sure belief that one can become one's costume. His visual style is a dense and demented re-creation of von Sternberg, the smallest fashion accessory a radiant surface as camera and character--and character and costume--move in a coordinated ballet at once graceful and spastic.

I've shared the old, mutilated 56min version earlier. Here's the whole deal, courtesy of Rai3. Enjoy!

Normal Love (Jack Smith)(Long cut! - 106 min)(TVRip - XviD).avi

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Duration (hh:mm:ss): 01:46:53
Frame Count: 160313
Frame Width (pixels): 480
Frame Height (pixels): 368

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[Fitzcarraldo]

8O killing me softly with your movies 8O

[oscarriutort]

es muda?thanks

[trep]

es muda?thanks

Yes - just music. Weird music, for the record

[oscarriutort]

thnaxs trep

[MalachihcalaM]

ClicketyCliiick!

[vaughan]

Thanks trep!

[el_saturn]

Great release trep

[auess]

[wicker_man]

hurray!!!! to the trash, with the old copy! thanks!

(otho, ubu.com could place it online, net speed at my job is amazing, a pity firewall block's p2p...)


w_m

[Faeton]

Could someone please reshare this? I'm stuck at 97 % :'-(

Pues eso: que si alguien lo recomparte, le estaré muy agradecido

[vaughan]

there it is, in release waiting for you Faeton...

[marvin2kk]

donwloading me too!!!

[seiyuro_hiko]

Now or never , so dling ...

thanks-a-lot Trep & vaughan

[Faeton]

there it is, in release waiting for you Faeton...

Complete!! Thanks, Vaughan!

I'll keep it shared for the rest

[seiyuro_hiko]

Downloaded & sharing ^_^
Thanks Vaughan !! y gracias tambien Faeton

[oscarriutort]

Bajando!!!