Cinematic film, the art form that came into its own in the 20th Century, is not only familiar to all of us, but is likely the form that lodges most clearly in memory. Like music, and the music employed in a film, scenes come back, often carrying emotion as well as remembrance.
One such film is Harold and Maude, the 1971 production that brought Bud Cort and Ruth Gordon to what are possibly their most memorable roles, and the film that locked so many Cat Stevens songs in mind. A cockeyed love story that stretches the definition of a May/December romance, it reveals the fact that love can indeed be blind to matters of age or appearance.
This book takes us back half a century to when this one-of-a-kind film was released, a time with its own kind of turmoil, but a time as well of a different kind of innocence, one worth exploring again. Fifty years, traditionally a golden anniversary, is surely an appropriate time to celebrate.
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Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- Half Title Page 3
- Title Page 5
- Copyright Page 6
- Dedication 7
- The Players 10
- The Collaborators 11
- Coming Attractions 13
- [Price of] Admission (a rationale) 15
- Feature Presentation 19
- Just Another Rom/Com? OR, Blame it on the Graduate 21
- “Lights, Camera, Ashby!” 35
- Making Things Look Good 47
- Thinking about Cult Films 55
- The Soundtrack 59
- An Interview with Ellen Geer 65
- An Interview with Dame Marjorie Chardin, aka Maude 81
- Curtain Call 85
- Behind the Lens 89
- Scene by Scene 91
- Notes/Sources 121
- Bibliography / Resources 125
- Roll Credits 128
- About the Author 130
