IDFA 2001
Showman
Albert Maysles, David Maysles
United States
1963
53 min
Portrait of one of the last great Hollywood movie producers, Joe Levine. Levine grew up in the back streets of Boston, but made a lightning career in the film industry. In the fifties, he reaped fame as a distributor and promoter of Italian neo-realist films. With his commercial successes, he managed to cover the losses he incurred with smaller, more artistic films. In SHOWMAN, we see Levine in great form during the hyped-up promotional campaign for the film TWO WOMEN (LA CIOCIARA, by Vittorio de Sica in 1961), which won leading actress Sophia Loren an Oscar. A period when success smiled on Levine.
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Maysles Films Inc.
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Maysles Films Inc.
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