Word: film
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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When I saw the helicopter from my tent overlooking Samarina, I was afraid that it could only mean more trouble. I was one of a group of people who were living in Samarina for several weeks to make a documentary film about the Vlachs, a transient group of shepherds who make their summer homes in Samarina and a number of neighboring villages...
After we had been filming for a week, military authorities from near-by towns ordered the village policemen to confiscate our film until we acquired a permit. We gave him a fraction of the film we had taken, and I went off on a Kafkaesque tour in search of a permit for the film...
...when the helicopter arrived the day after I returned to Samarina, I thought it had come on our business to take the film we had shot, and to prevent us from continuing. Coincidentally, as I discovered later, a communique had been sent up from Athens that same day ordering the local policemen to do just those things. In any case, I was ironically relieved on learning it was Pattakos...
...then (1964), Cassavetes had decided that artistic control and freedom from front-office interference are as necessary to moviemaking as a camera and film. He was through with Hollywood, new or old. Hollywood was only too glad to reciprocate...
...love it," Cassavetes says. "They let you love what you're doing. Then they take it all away from you." Not so with Faces, which was made over a four-year period of financial uncertainty but with complete freedom. The result was a fiercely personal, dynamic film that unashamedly celebrated its own independence...