Maidstone: A Sign of the Times

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Maidstone, improvisational filmmaking, political satire and revolution, blurring fiction and reality, cinéma vérité

An interview with actor Rip Torn that focuses on his recollections of the production of Maidstone (1970).

Griselda Steiner

Griselda Steiner is a free-lance writer, dramatist, and poet living in New York City. She has written plays and a screenplay that have been given readings in various venues. She continues to publish on aspects of the arts for numerous magazines and online. Her poetry has appeared in literary journals and she performed her work recently at the downtown 92YTribeca café. In the fall of 1968 she was asked by John Wilcox of Other Scenes to interview Rip Torn on his role in the film. Another version of the interview appeared in Filmmakers Newsletter in 1971.