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Donald Cammell

About Me

I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4I trained at the Royal Academy School of Art and was a portrait painter for a time before making films. Although i only completed 4 feature films, "Performance" (1971) is known as one the most radical films in the history of cinema. I died on April 24 ,1996 in Hollywood after my final film, Wild Side (1995), was recut by the studio.

My Blog

Paul Schrader on PERFORMANCE.

EVER SINCE THE INCEPTION OF MOVIES, CRITICS and journalists have tried to overlay its creators with the Romantic myth of creativity. If motion pictures were to be "art" in the 19th-century sense, its ...
Posted by on Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:31:00 GMT

Have Films Gotten Better? - Two Views

Have Films Gotten Better? Two Views. Roderick Hughes and Paul Spaeth              First ViewYes ยท       &n...
Posted by on Sat, 09 Feb 2008 07:32:00 GMT

"murder is a work of art"

Killing in Style: The Aestheticization of Violence in Donald Cammell's White of the Eye By Steven Jay Schneider, Harvard University / New York University, USA "Everything in this world has two handles...
Posted by on Sat, 27 May 2006 13:52:00 GMT