When Anthology Film Archives ran a retrospective of the films of Robert Kramer last summer they called him “one of the greatest and most committed of all radical American filmmakers.” He is also one of the least known, with none of his 14 features available on DVD in the Us. (Glenn Kenny wrote here last month about the French release of his masterpiece Route One/USA.)
Until I saw this superb poster, I had never even heard of Guns, which played at the 1980 New York Film Festival the same year Kramer moved permanently to France (where he was better appreciated and where he passed away in 1999). A film about Angolan gun runners and oil exports—hence the spelling of the title in freight containers—Guns starred Patrick Bauchau in his first acting role in the 13 years since Rohmer’s La collectioneuse (now of course he's barely ever off American TV screens...
Until I saw this superb poster, I had never even heard of Guns, which played at the 1980 New York Film Festival the same year Kramer moved permanently to France (where he was better appreciated and where he passed away in 1999). A film about Angolan gun runners and oil exports—hence the spelling of the title in freight containers—Guns starred Patrick Bauchau in his first acting role in the 13 years since Rohmer’s La collectioneuse (now of course he's barely ever off American TV screens...
- 5/9/2010
- MUBI
When Anthology Film Archives ran a retrospective of the films of Robert Kramer last summer they called him “one of the greatest and most committed of all radical American filmmakers.” He is also one of the least known, with none of his 14 features available on DVD in the Us. (Glenn Kenny wrote here last month about the French release of his masterpiece Route One/USA.)
Until I saw this superb poster, I had never even heard of Guns, which played at the 1980 New York Film Festival the same year Kramer moved permanently to France (where he was better appreciated and where he passed away in 1999). A film about Angolan gun runners and oil exports—hence the spelling of the title in freight containers—Guns starred Patrick Bauchau in his first acting role in the 13 years since Rohmer’s La collectioneuse (now of course he's barely ever off American TV screens...
Until I saw this superb poster, I had never even heard of Guns, which played at the 1980 New York Film Festival the same year Kramer moved permanently to France (where he was better appreciated and where he passed away in 1999). A film about Angolan gun runners and oil exports—hence the spelling of the title in freight containers—Guns starred Patrick Bauchau in his first acting role in the 13 years since Rohmer’s La collectioneuse (now of course he's barely ever off American TV screens...
- 5/9/2010
- MUBI
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