Emile de Antonio Emile de Antonio Radical Filmmaker in Cold War America (cid:1) RANDOLPH LEWIS THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PRESS TheUniversityofWisconsinPress 2537DanielsStreet Madison,Wisconsin53718 3HenriettaStreet LondonWC2E8LU,England Copyright©2000 TheBoardofRegentsoftheUniversityofWisconsinSystem Allrightsreserved 5 4 3 2 1 PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Lewis,Randolph,1966– EmiledeAntonio:radicalfilmmakerinColdWarAmerica/ RandolphLewis. pp. cm. Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN0-299-16910-3(alk.paper) ISBN0-299-16914-6(pbk.:alk.paper) 1.DeAntonio,Emile. 2.Motionpictureproducersanddirectors— UnitedStates—Biography. I.Title. PN1998.3.D3846L48 2000 791.43'0233'092—dc21 00-009309 Otherhistoriansrelatefactstoinformusoffacts. You relate them to excite in our hearts and minds an intense hatred of lying, ignorance, hypocrisy, superstition,tyranny;andtheangerremainseven afterthememoryoffactshasdisappeared. –DiderotonVoltaire Contents Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 3 1. LifeBeforeFilm 10 2. PointofOrder! 29 3. RushtoJudgment:GenealogyofanAssassination 48 4. Vietnam:IntheYearofthePig 76 5. TheIncursionintoRichardMilhousNixon 113 6. Art,Politics,andPaintersPainting 155 7. Underground 181 8. FilmsoftheEighties 212 Epilogue 235 Notes 247 SelectedBibliography 309 Filmography 329 Index 333 vii Illustrations EmiledeAntonioinhisU.S.Armyuniform,1944 16 JosephWelchinastillfromPointofOrder,1964 35 MargueriteOswald,LeeHarveyOswald’smother,inastillfrom RushtoJudgment 51 Mark Lane and Emile de Antonio during production of Rush to Judgment 59 StatementfromJimGarrisonpromotingRushtoJudgment 75 EmiledeAntonio,late1960s,probablyduringtheproductionof IntheYearofthePig 89 PublicitymaterialforIntheYearofthePig 94 AnadvertisementforMillhouse:AWhiteComedywithadrawing byDavidLevine 130 ProtestersoutsideatheatershowingMillhouse:AWhiteComedy, 1971 132 EmiledeAntonioinhisNewYorkstudio,early1970s 153 Emile de Antonio directing Painters Painting with Ed Emsch- willerfilming 158 KenNolandinastillfromPaintersPainting 160 RobertRauschenberginastillfromPaintersPainting 162 CindaFirestone,assistanteditorofPaintersPainting 173 Emile de Antonio, photographed by Thomas Bergman, son of Ingmar,1973 177 Jean-MichelBasquiatandEmiledeAntonio,1984 179 BernadineDohrn,KathyBoudin,andCathyWilkersoninastill fromUnderground 190 ix