We Can't Go Home Again

We Can't Go Home Again (1973)

Nicholas Ray plays himself, acting as mentor, friend, and artistic inspiration to his students at Binghamton. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with The Film Foundation.

Date of release
1973-05-10
TMDB
6.1 / 10 (23)
Runtime
1h 33m
Genres
Drama
Director
Nicholas Ray

Casting

Interesting facts

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.

Production

In 1971, Nicholas Ray received an invitation to lecture at Binghamton University's Harpur College, which had at the time just established a film department. This led to Ray being offered a two-year teaching position at the department, which had been founded by Larry Gottheim and the experimental filmmaker Ken Jacobs.

The film soundtrack features the song “God Bless the Family” written by Norman Zamcheck and performed by him and Suzy Williams as the duo Stormin’ Norman & Suzy.

The film was made using a wide variety of equipment and shooting formats, including Super 8, 16mm, 35mm and a video synthesizer which had been donated to the project by Nam June Paik.

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