BORN ON THIS DAY: ARTHUR MILLER

  (October 17, 1915 – February 10, 2005)

"Arthur was the last of the three great theatrical voices of the American century — O'Neill, Williams, Miller. ... Arthur's special achievement was to make political and social plays which belonged on Broadway and yet were also powered to reach out into America and way beyond."

David Hare

"The greatest playwright of the 20th century."

Vaclav Havel

"Writing meant, for him, an effort to locate in the human species a counterforce to the randomness of victimization."

Salman Rushdie

"My conception of the audience is of a public each member of which is carrying about with him what he thinks is an anxiety, or a hope, or a preoccupation which is his alone and isolates him from mankind; and in this respect at least the function of a play is to reveal him to himself so that he may touch others by virtue of the revelation of his mutuality with them. If only for this reason I regard the theater as a serious business, one that makes or should make man more human, which is to say, less alone."

Arthur Miller

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INTERVIEWS AND ARTICLES OF INTEREST

*Arthur Miller Official Website

*Arthur Miller: Biography, Interview, and Excerpts

*Arthur Miller: List of His Works For Purchase

*Arthur Miller on The Crucible

*Arthur Miller reads Death of a Salesman

*Arthur Miller: Art of Theatre No 2

*Arthur Miller: Art of Theatre No 2 part 2

*Playwright defined a nation's conscience

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PHOTOS FROM THE STAGE

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SAMPLE OF ARTHUR MILLER'S PLAYS

*The Crucible

*All My Sons

*Death of a Salesman

*A View From The Bridge

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TRAILERS & FULL LENGTH FILM ADAPTATIONS OF THE PLAYS AND ORIGINAL SCREENPLAYS OF ARTHUR MILLER

Watch Death of a Salesman English Subtitles in Drama | View More Free Videos Online at Veoh.com

Death of A Salesman by ClassicB

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FILMMAKERS #1: NICK ZEDD & THE CINEMA OF TRANSGRESSION

"We propose that all film schools be blown up and all boring films never be made again. We propose that a sense of humour is an essential element discarded by the doddering academics and further, that any film which doesn’t shock isn’t worth looking at. All values must be challenged. Nothing is sacred. Everything must be questioned and reassessed in order to free our minds from the faith of tradition. Intellectual growth demands that risks be taken and changes occur in political, sexual and aesthetic alignments no matter who disapproves." — Nick Zedd (The Manifesto of the Cinema of Transgression, 1985)

"Nick Zedd's films are legendary — he is a truly seminal figure in the New York underground." 

— Jim Jarmusch

"Alienating myself in complete darkness to the abstract world of Nick Zedd’s bewildering pornography, I had a vision, and here’s what I saw: Plagues being dispensed at a hasty rate, sort of like a gushing bang from a hot spring geyser, or an ejaculating dick. About the time I’m viewing a tongue twirling around a tit with two nipples, the prophecy of deformity from man-made clones appears rather vividly. Blood dripping from a slit wrist, mostly onto the mildew caked floor, made me conclude that unexpected death and nuclear warfare are the least of our worries from human negligence. Nick Zedd has purposely portrayed that he is not a director. He is more of a prophet, clearly depicting his visions for the views of humanity" 

— Chase Spring (Sleazegrinder)

"Nick Zedd makes violent, perverted art films from Hell — he’s my kind of director!"

— John Waters 

“Zedd’s work is angry, disturbing, provocative: it is also consistent, original and more than less fearless. He is very much out of the underground and independent tradition….”

— Larry Kardish (MoMA)

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DOCUMENTARY FILMS FEATURING NICK ZEDD

Kill The Artist (2007)

Kill The Artist Official Website

Llik Your Idols (2007)

Llik Your Idols: Sex and Death in 80s New York Underground Cinema

Blank City (2010)

Blank City Official Website

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INTERVIEWS & ARTICLES OF INTEREST

* Nick Zedd’s The Extremist Manifesto

* Today's pornography is tomorrow's art

* Nick Zedd Interview With Oakazine

* Tarantino is Dead

* Extremist Art: A Talk with Nick Zedd

* White Hot Magazine Interview With Nick Zedd

* Nick Zedd: King Of Underground Films

* He Eats Scum: Interview With Nick Zedd

* You Killed Me First: The Cinema Of Transgression

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FREEZE FRAMES

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FILMS & EXCERPTS

Post Punk Films of Nick Zedd on Ubuweb

Abnormal: The Cinema of Nick Zedd Part 1

Abnormal: The Cinema of Nick Zedd Part 2

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"There will be 
blood, shame, pain and ecstacy, the likes of which no one has yet imagined. None shall emerge unscathed.
Since there is no afterlife, the only hell is the hell of praying, obeying laws, and deasing ourself before 
authority figures, the only heaven is the heaven of sin, being rebellious, having fun, fucking, 
learning new things and breaking as many rules as you can."

— Nick Zedd