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Director: Rob Tregenza
Cast: Ken Gruz, Marvin Hunter, Dennis Jordan, Caron
Tate, Henry Strozier
Country: U.S.
Year: 1988
Running Time: 90 min
Format: 35mm
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would you do if someone you loved decided to put vinyl When
Talking to Strangers was made in 1988, it had an immediate
impact on the film festival circuit and received an Independent
Spirit Award nomination for Best First Feature. Perhaps even
more impressively, it became one of legendary French director
Jean-Luc Godard's favorite films - when Godard was asked to
present a film at the 1996 Toronto Film Festival, this was
the film he chose.
Filmed entirely in Baltimore, Talking to Strangers follows
a young artist as he travels through the city and comes in
contact with various strangers along the way. The film consists
of nine ten-minute segments, each filmed only once in one
continuous take. The originality and complexity of these scenes
is still ground breaking today, and the complicated choreography
involved to move the actors and camera through the scene (particularly
in a soup kitchen scene) is nothing short of astounding.
Rarely seen on the big screen and difficult to find on video,
this is truly a unique opportunity to see a world-renowned
film that was shot right here in Baltimore.
--Dan Krovich
Presented By: Rob Tregenza
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