Flaming Creatures - Constantine Verevis (Cultographies) Action & Martial Arts 'Amour' Director: Michael Haneke (2012)

'Amour' Director: Michael Haneke (2012) Starring Jean-Louis Trintignant

tells the story of the mysterious disappearance of three schoolgirls and their teacher on a trip to a local geological formation

The debut film of the esteemed and influential director is bleak but beautiful

A knight makes his way home from the crusades to find the Black Plague sweeping his homeland

gorgeous silvery cinematography and some social satire add up to one of the great comedies of the Classical Hollywood period

Flaming Creatures - Constantine Verevis (Cultographies) Action & Martial Arts 'Amour' Director: Michael Haneke (2012)Banned soon after its first midnight screenings, the prints seized and the organizers arrested, Jack Smiths incendiary Flaming Creatures (1963) quickly became a cause clbre of the New York underground. Tracing the films production and reception history, Constantine Verevis argues that it embodies a unique type of cinematic rewriting, one that combines Smiths multifaceted artistic work with exotic fragments drawn from the cinematic past.