Rating: NR
Genre: Culture & Society
Release Date: 10/10/2000
Dubbed: English
Sound: 5.1/1
Run Time: 67 Minutes
Flags: Not For Children
Distributor/Studio: Image Entertainment

The Savage Eye opens by introducing the camera lens as a "character" who will follow the leading lady (Barbara Baxley) throughout her day. The woman is a recent divorcee who moves to Los Angeles in hopes of jump-starting her life. As she weaves her way through the LA, we share her observations on the various denizens of the street, from religious fanatics to faddists. Except for a smattering of professionals like Baxley, Gary Merrill and Herschel Bernardi, most of the characters in Savage Eye are the genuine article, though they're all too aware they're being photographed and thus can't be taken as completely "real." A mixed-bag attempt at cinema verite, Savage Eye was cocreated by Joseph Strick, the entrepreneur who later tried to film James Joyce's unfilmable slice-of-life novel Ulysses.

~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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Cast:
Barbara Baxley - Judith McGuire
Herschel Bernardi - Kirtz
Jean Hidey - Venus the Body
Elizabeth Zemach - The Nurse

Production:
Ben Maddow Sidney Meyers Joseph Strick - Director
Ben Maddow Sidney Meyers Joseph Strick - Producer
Leonard Rosenman - Composer
Ben Maddow Sidney Meyers Joseph Strick - Screen Writer
Helen Levitt - Cinematographer
Jack C. Couffer - Cinematographer
Haskell Wexler - Cinematographer

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