An Affair of the Skin
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| An Affair of the Skin | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Ben Maddow |
| Produced by | Helen Levitt Ben Maddow |
| Written by | Ben Maddow |
| Starring | Viveca Lindfors Kevin McCarthy Lee Grant Diana Sands Herbert Berghof Nancy Malone Osceola Archer Will Lee |
| Cinematography | Roger Barlow David Shore |
| Editing by | Verna Fields |
| Distributed by | Zenith International Film Corp. |
| Release date(s) | 1963 |
| Running time | 102 minutes |
| Country |  United States |
| IMDb profile | |
An Affair of the Skin is 1963 film written and directed by Ben Maddow. It is a complex story of the romantic entanglements of its several characters as seen through the eyes of a black woman photographer. The film was harshly reviewed shortly after its release in Time Magazine.[1] Woody Haut's recent characterization is more sympathetic:[2]
...a worthy, if not altogether successful, attempt at being an American art movie, a hodgepodge of influences, from Italian Realists, Antonioni and Bergman to US social conscience films and documentarists like Robert Flaherty. Written, produced and directed by former documentarist and Hollywood scriptwriter Ben Maddow, the film was, for the most part, shot on the streets of New York, and memorable for its sensuousness, its street-level camera-work and use of natural light.
Maddow is reported as feeling that the initial release of An Affair of the Skin had been rushed for financial reasons. In 1973, ten years later its initial release, Maddow re-edited and released it again under the title Love As Disorder. As described by John Hagan, "An offscreen narration by the photographer was added to establish her as an observer: a participant in the action but also a caustic chronicler of it. As in much of Maddow's work, inner disorder is seen against a background of social unrest as described in a highly imagistic manner by a person who has both emotional involvement and critical detachment." [3]
[edit] References and external links
- ^ "Dermis, Anyone?" Time Magazine, December 6, 1963. Online version retrieved Jan. 31, 2008.
- ^ Haut, Woody (2008). "Ben Maddow: Affairs of the Skin," blog posted by a film critic who has published several books. Archived by WebCite from the original 2008-02-26.
- ^ Hagan, John (2000). "Ben Maddow", in Tom Pendergast and Sara Pendergast (editors), International Dictionary of Film and Filmmakers, Edition 4 (St. James Press), ISBN 978-1558624498. Online version of article retrieved January 9, 2008.
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