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The most complete restoration of legendary director Nicholas Ray`s
1973 experimental masterpiece, made with his college students in upstate New York, We Can't Go Home Again embodies Ray`s approach to filmmaking as a "communal way of life." Ray plays himself in the film, serving as mentor, friend, and reference point around whom his students` stories of love, sex rebellion, and lost innocence constellate. Exhibiting Ray`s groundbreaking use of multiple-image storytelling and dramatic colorization, the film takes an anthological angle on recording the "history, progress, manners, morals, and mores of everyday life" at a critical moment in 1970s America.
Don't Expect Too Much, a feature-length documentary by Nicholas Ray`s wife Susan, investigates the making of We Can`t Go Home Again and the complex relationships within Ray`s life and art. Drawing on his archive of never-before-seen film, video, and stills, as well as new interviews with directors Jim Jarmusch, Victor Erice, Ray`s students, and others, Susan Ray provides a compelling and unparalleled exploration of the revered American auteur.
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