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In this first collection of film writing from Evergreen Review, the legendary publication's important contributions to film culture are available in a single volume. Featuring such legendary writers as Nat Hentoff, Norman Mailer, Parker Tyler, and Amos Vogel, the book presents writing on the films of Jean-Luc Godard, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Ousmane Sembene, Andy Warhol, and others and offers incisive essays and interviews from the late 1950s to early 1970s.

Seized by customs upon entry to the United States, subject of a heated court battle, banned in cities across the United States, Vilgot Sjöman’s I Am Curious - Yellow is one of the most controversial films of all time. This landmark document of Swedish society during the sexual revolution has been declared both obscene and revolutionary. It tells the story of Lena (Lena Nyman), a searching and rebellious young woman, and her personal quest to understand the social and political conditions in 1960s Sweden, as well as her bold exploration of her own sexual identity. Shattering taboos as it freely traverses the lines between fact and fiction, I Am Curious - Yellow is presented here for the first time with its companion piece I Am Curious - Blue, a parallel film featuring the same characters and in which the lines between documentary and fiction are even further blurred.

In una conca tra le montagne della Valle d’Aosta è adagiato il borgo di Saint-Rhémy: una striscia di case di pietra dominate da un campanile. Tra i boschi silenziosi che circondano il villaggio vive Fiamma, la ragazza dai capelli rossi davanti alla quale tutti abbassano lo sguardo. Di lei si sussurra che faccia gelare i raccolti, tolga il latte alle vacche e possa addirittura scuotere la montagna: ma è da lei che, al calare della notte, ogni anima del villaggio si reca in segreto. Come faceva sua madre, Fiamma prepara decotti per curare ogni male: infusi d’erbe che, in bocca alla gente del borgo, diventano pozioni di una strega che ha venduto l’anima al diavolo..