Background
Joseph Strick was born on July 6, 1923 in Braddock, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Frank and Rose (Abramovitz) Strick.
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Joseph Strick was born on July 6, 1923 in Braddock, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Frank and Rose (Abramovitz) Strick.
Joseph Strick studied at University of California at Los Angeles. Doctor of Humane Letters, Point Park College and graduated in 1984.
It is a weird dividend of Strick’s immersion in modern confusion that his My Lai film was set up on profits from his production of Ring of Bright Water (Jack Couffer), that inquiry into whether Bill Travers/Virginia McKenna is/are more cuddly/dumb than various otters. Striek is a schizoid, looking to make commercial underground movies, to turn a blind eye to the sexational reputation of classics of the literary avantgarde. His Ulysses, for instance, could only distress devotees of Joyce; it would hardly prompt anyone to read the book; its Irishness, its sex, its mythology, its Bloom are all desperately cautious creations. Its Dublin is a pasteboard suburb.
Striek impresses as a wintry, disenchanted personality, much more suited to the cynicism of The Savage Eye and the brutal pragmatism of Tropic of Cancer than to the lyrical exuberance of a Joyce, Genet, or even Lawrence Durrell Striek originally began Justine, before the mangled subject was dumped on George Cukor. Striek has fought strident battles over freedom from censorship, freedom to bring art to the people, freedom of speech; hut his work is tight-lipped, grindinglv unfluent, and unable to shed the approach to life’s variety of the tabloid press. Far too simple to call him a phony, he genuinely stands for disintegrating purpose, striving for significance and the life force, but coming across with the implausible and dispiriting frankness of a barker outside a strip show.
(Soundtrack of the 1967 production of Ulysses)
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Commissioner Planning Board, Grandview (New York ). Served with United States Army Air Force, 1942-1945. Member Academy Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Directors Guild American (council director 1979-1980).
Married Anne Laskin, September 9, 1945 (divorced January 1968). Children: David, Betsy, Jeremy. Married Martine Rossignol, September 23, 1970. Children: Terence, Helene.