"A layered, complex, dark, and glossy picture." - Mike Kuchar
"An epic coming of age story in the lineage of the house of Kuchar, Mr. Anger and Mr. Smith while being completely of its own age and time." - Lewis Klahr
"Unchained Melody offers shock, beauty, complexity, laughter, luridness, lightness of touch, gravity, phantasmagoric intertextuality--all with a buoyant, giddy, erotically-charged directness." - Wayne Koestenbaum
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UNCHAINED MELODY
Written and Directed By: Felix Bernstein
Assistant Director: Gabe Rubin
Cinematography: Patrick Urbankowski
Art Direction: Mabel Nash Greenberg
Dramaturge: Cole Heinowitz
Choreographer: Shelley Hirsch
Sound and Lighting: Max Marcellus and Marla Bazan and Eugene Moye
Starring: Felix Bernstein, Shelley Hirsch, Charles Bernstein, Susan Bee, Tom Regan, Baroness Sherry von Korber Bernstein, Gabe Rubin, Cole Heinowitz, Tony Torn.
Anthology Film Archives Premiere
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"Re-affirmed my belief that irony is often the most "sincere" of strategies." - Abigail Child
"Amazing: profound, disturbing, over-the-top, redemptive, vivid, saturated, comedic, and everything else too." - Maria Damon
"Using all its gaudy over-the-topness it created for me a powerful sense of deep anxiety, yearning, sorrow even, that empowered the gorgeous imagery, the rich complexity of montage. I was thrilled by the whole thing—the richness most of all,the real use of color, street, mouth and music detached, the stammerings of fancy. And after all the excitement, that haunting resolving image of Gabe's face. I don't often see such complexity of gesture and feeling on the screen. A beautiful film." - Robert Kelly