The Innerview

The Innerview is a 1973 experimental film written, directed, produced by and starring Richard Beymer.

Premise

Found footage presented as a stream-of-consciousness assemblage.

Cast

Richard Beymer
Joanna Bochco

Production

There was a 1973 version of the film. This is considered lost as Beymer re-cut his original genative and all existing prints. A 1975 edition survives.

Reception

Melissa Anderson in 4 Columns called it "a deep cut of psychedelia in which the image of toothy, clean-shaven, Brylcreemed Tony, sporting jacket and tie and chastely embracing his nightgowned sweetheart on her fire escape, has been forever annihilated—now supplanted by a bearded, Jesus-haired, hippie-beaded Beymer, thrusting away on top of his bare-breasted lover, her contortions while in the throes of ecstasy pleasingly revealing ungroomed armpits."
The Los Angeles Times called it " a thoroughly remarkable, dazzlingly complex achievement that must surely rank among the major works of the American avant-garde cinema....Beymer is especially acute in expressing how the movies have shaped our imaginations....Indeed, The Innerview celebrates the miraculous, infinite resources of the cinema itself."