GME GEM 19 - SPRING NIGHT SUMMER NIGHT

Gartenberg Media confronts the heat with this “missing link of American independent cinema” that Richard Brody of The New Yorker calls a “tense, myth-drenched drama of liberation and retribution.”

SPRING NIGHT SUMMER NIGHT premiered at the Pesaro Film Festival in 1967 alongside new works by Jean-Luc Godard (ALPHAVILLE), Joris Ivens (MISÈRE AU BORINAGE), Jean-Marie Straub and Daniele Huillet (CLASS RELATIONS), and Jonas Mekas (JONAS MEKAS: THE MAJOR WORKS). However, the film was bumped from its premiere slot at the 1968 New York Film Festival to make room for John Cassavetes’ FACES, the fate of SPRING NIGHT SUMMER NIGHT was nearly sealed when its original distributor insisted that it be re-cut as an exploitation film under the title MISS JESSICA IS PREGNANT. Fortunately, thanks to the brilliant restoration efforts of Peter Conheim and Ross Lipman - along with the generous support of director Nicolas Winding Refn’s byNWR - the film was scanned in 4K resolution from the 35mm camera negative, and carefully reconstructed according to Joseph L. Anderson’s original vision.

Larue Hall and Ted Heimerdinger portray Jessie and Carl, who deal with and illicit love affair and an unplanned pregnancy in the small mining town of canaan, ohio.

This DVD/Blu-ray edition distributed by GME contains numerous bonus materials including behind the scenes footage, interviews from 2020 with the original 1967 cast and crew, as well as earlier films by Joseph Anderson.