10/25/11

DON'T EXPECT TOO MUCH

A full-length documentary directed by Susan Ray, to have its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival and its North American premiere at the New York Film Festival, DON'T EXPECT TOO MUCH traces the director’s bold experiments with multiple image, journalistic filmmaking, and the teaching of cinema undertaken in We can't go home again.

The documentary will include archival picture and sound from the Nicholas Ray Archive; and interviews with directors Victor Erice and Jim Jarmusch, many of the original cast and crew of We can't go home again, and the last surviving cast member of Rebel without a cause.

currently showing on cable television

http://nicholasrayfoundation.org/Dont_Expect_Too_Much In this feature-length companion piece to Nicholas Ray's We Can't Go Home Again, Ray's widow, Susan, examines her late husband's stormy romance with Hollywood, his self-imposed exile in Europe, and his eventual return to America, where he began work on the wildly experimental magnum opus that would become his final cinematic testament." more...