We Can't Go Home Again (1976)

- Directed by
- Nicholas Ray
- Genre
- drama film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 33m
- Rated
- 18A
- Rating
- 6.2 of 10 from 22 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb

The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
Nicholas Ray and his film students play fictionalized versions of themselves in an experimental feature. The director and students collaborate on a project that blurs the line between reality and performance.
experimentalrawintrospectivefragmentedpersonalunpolishedmetacollaborative
What happens
We Can't Go Home Again is an experimental feature film directed by Nicholas Ray in collaboration with his film students at Binghamton University. Ray and the students play fictionalized versions of themselves. The film was the major project of the last decade of Ray's life, and he and his collaborators continuously re-edited it. Rough versions of the film were screened at festivals as early as 1972 (including a Cannes premiere in 1973), and the most well-known cut was completed in 1976. Ray was still making alterations to it at the time of his death in 1979. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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