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Sheldon and police in Dope the movie ('68)
whew!
' "Ones perception of DOPE is even more complex today, when the immediacy and poignancy of its style mingle with other perspectives provided by the distance of seven years" according to John Hanhardt, Head of the Film Department. “Seeing DOPE remains a harrowing experience while at the same time one feels a curous nostalgia, both for times past and for lives lost.”
The edges between immediate experience and remote history begin to blur; we see at once “how it is” and “how it was.” Years from now DOPE will probably survive as an historical document of a time long ago. If so, it will surely inform and shape how anyone who has seen it thinks about the time and place it describes.'
-- Whitney Museum of American Art, press release for New American Filmmakers Series, 1975
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' "Ones perception of DOPE is even more complex today, when the immediacy and poignancy of its style mingle with other perspectives provided by the distance of seven years" according to John Hanhardt, Head of the Film Department. “Seeing DOPE remains a harrowing experience while at the same time one feels a curous nostalgia, both for times past and for lives lost.”
The edges between immediate experience and remote history begin to blur; we see at once “how it is” and “how it was.” Years from now DOPE will probably survive as an historical document of a time long ago. If so, it will surely inform and shape how anyone who has seen it thinks about the time and place it describes.'
-- Whitney Museum of American Art, press release for New American Filmmakers Series, 1975
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