Long Live the Underground!

- by Jefferson Everest Crawford
Man in shadow behind tall green reeds, wearing a yellow towel, against a blue sky
Credit: Millennium Film Workshop
Parker Tyler, eclectic film critic and champion of the early American avant-garde cinema, wrote in Underground Film, his critical history of the movement published in 1969, that “the hardest thing for a very radical idea to do is to stay very radical.” Tyler’s allegiances remained to the 1940s, when filmmakers like Willard Maas, James Broughton, and Charles Boultonhouse took the first decisive steps away from mainstream Hollywood expectations and dared to bring poetry, psychology, and sex to the screen. In...

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