Films by John Cook
John Cook
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Canadian-born filmmaker and photographer John Cook (1935–2001) was one of the
key figures in the "Austrian New Wave" of the 1970s. A maverick artist still to be discovered among international cinephiles,
Cook almost single-handedly introduced a type of freewheeling auteur cinema in Austria, reminiscent of both Italian
neorealism and the works of the French nouvelle vague.
In 2006, the Austrian Film Museum
restored Cook's three most important works and published a book on his life and work. This 2-Disc-Set includes the two
features Langsamer Sommer / Slow Summer (1974–76) and Schwitzkasten / Clinch (1978) as well as Cook's early
documentary Ich schaff's einfach nimmer / I Just Can't Go On (1972/73) and additional written and filmed essays on
the filmmaker.
"One of the most important modern Austrian filmmakers – his three
features and two medium-length works are heralded as being amongst the finest Austrian films ever made." (Cinema Scope)
"One
of the happiest consequences of the advent of specialized DVD labels involves the efforts of film connoisseurs to make the
work of heretofore-obscure directors available to a larger public. The Austrian Film Museum's label has been exemplary in
this regard; their recent release of a set of three films by the little known Austrian (although Canadian-born) director John
Cook unearths previously submerged treasures for anyone in possession of a multiregion player." (Cineaste)
"Two
newly-restored features by the Canadian-born, 'Viennese by choice' John Cook, who in the 1970s segued from fashion photography
to low-budget cinema with Slow Summer (1976) and then Clinch (1978) – both of them fascinating as time-capsules
but still impressively fresh and funny." (Neil Young)
Edition
Filmmuseum 44
Edited by: Austrian Film Museum
DVD 1: Slow Summer (1974-76,
John Cook) 83 min | Skizze - Episode - Szene. Kommentar zu John Cooks Langsamer Sommer (2008,
Realisation: Michael Baute, Volker Pantenburg, Stefan Pethke) 12 min
DVD 2: Clinch (1978, John Cook) 97
min | I just can't go on (1972-73, John Cook) 50 min
Language: German (DVD 1/2),
English (DVD 2)
Subtitles: English
All Regions, 4:3 PAL
16 page booklet with
essays by Dominik Kamalzadeh und Michael Loebenstein (In German and in English)
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