Milestones (1975)
Director: Robert Kramer e John Douglas – Story and Screenplay: Robert Kramer e John Douglas – Director of photography: Philip Spinelli – Sound editor: Jane Schwartz, Philip Spinelli - Research and Film sound editor: Marilyn Mulford - Production: Barbara Stone et David C. Stone - Country: USA - Running time: 195'
Cast: G. W. Abbot (Policeman), Amber (Amber), Anne (Anne), Laurel Berger (Laurel, the kid), Noah Berger (Noah, the kid), David Bernstein (David), Bobby Buechler (Jamie), Carter Camp (Carter Camp), Mary Chapelle (Mama), Pola Chapelle (Pola), Elizabeth Dear (Liz), John Douglas (John), Efrem (Efrem), Jay Foley (Terry), Gail Frazier (Gail), Alex Goldstein (Al), Suey Hagadorn (Suey), Harriet (Jane), Kala Ho (Erika), Keja Ho (placenta), Lou Ho (Lou), Robert Ho (Hitch-hiker), Lenny Horowitz (Lenny), Alan Jacobs (Journal announcer), Nancy Jainchill (Woman in prison), Eben Johnson (Michael), Ritchie Johnson (Ritchie), Ruth Johnson (Ruth), Sharon Krebs (Jan), Anne Lauterbach (Editor), Ellen Maddow (Ellen), Joann Malone (childbirth scene), Nick (Lou’s nephew), Robert Nichols (Doctor, father of Peter), Jim Nolfi (Jimmy), Dylan Nolfi (Son of Jimmy), Joel O’Brien (Thief), Ocho (Ocho), Rocco O’Rourke (Pottery store) Grace Paley (Helen), Harvey Quintal (Harvey), Blake Malone Rainer (Childbirth scene), Melinda Rorick (Melinda), Tina Sheperd (Elizabeth), Leila Stork Solf (Childbirth scene), Susie Solf (Karen), Azfra Stork Solf (Childbirth scene), Philip Spinelli (Sal), Barbara Stone (Dream scene), David C. Stone (Joe, bar’s owner), Joe Stork (Childbirth scene), Jeanie Sullivan (Pottery store), Walter Teller (Rapist), Leaf Worn (Leaf, the child), Mariette Wickes (Childbirth scene), Paul Zimet (Peter)
The film:
"Milestones is Fire-Water-Air-Earth-People. It is a vision of America in the 1970’s and it is also a journey into the past and the future. […]
Milestones is a complex mosaic of characters and landscape which weave together to form the fabric of the film. There are many scenes in many cities, faces and voices withouth endings but many beginnings. […]
Milestones is a film about Rebirth. It is the rebirth of ideas and faces, of imagesand sounds. The molded clay of a blind potter is the rebirth of the soil. The deep snow is a promise of spring to come. The birth of a child is a symbolic as well as a visual rebirth of the film itself."
[Robert Kramer and John Douglas in Milestones. Présentation, in «Cahiers du cinéma» n°258-259, juillet-août 1975]
The film restoration:
The restoration of Milestones was conducted by Museo Nazionale del Cinema di Torino, Cinémathèque Française, Cinemateca Portugesa, Love Streams Agnès b. Productions and Cine Cinema.
The restoration, which was carried out in 2008 at the ANIM laboratory in Lisbon, was presented as a preview at the 61st Cannes Film Festival in the section La Quinzaine des Réalisateurs.
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