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Mailer Film Premiere

By on September 17, 2009 in Film

Norman Mailer’s first film, shot and edited in the months leading up to the publication of The Naked and the Dead, is having its world premiere at this years New York Film Festival as part of their acclaimed “Views From the Avant Garde” program. Restored and preserved by the Harry Ransom Center, The University of [...]

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Mailer & the Harvard Film Archive

By on March 5, 2009 in Video

In October 2008, The Norman Mailer Estate donated their film holdings to the Harvard Film Archive in Cambridge, MA. Comprising of over fifty boxes of material, including the original negatives and outtakes from Mailer’s films Wild 90 (1967), Beyond the Law (1968), and Maidstone (1971), the collection is currently being cataloged and prepared for future [...]

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