Product Details

• Actors: Rip Torn, Sally Kirkland, Robert Blankshine, Darlene Cotton, Phoebe Dorin
• Directors: Milton Moses Ginsberg
• Format: Black & White, DVD, Letterboxed, Special Edition, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono)
• Region: All Regions
• Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Kino Video
• DVD Release Date: April 10, 2000
• Run Time: 111 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6305769443
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #50,933 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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Product Description

Psychoanalyst joe glazer aka glassman rents a studio apartment in a towering glass-walled skyscraper away from his office and his pregnant wife where he has a variety of sexual encounters with a series of women all of which he films with a hidden camera. Studio: Kino International Release Date: 12/05/2000 Starring: Rip Torn Viveca Lindfors Run time: 111 minutes Rating: Nr Director: Milton Moses Ginsberg

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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Worth a look, May 13, 2000

By	"elljay" (Los Angeles) - See all my reviews

They don't make movies like this anymore. Released in 1969, "Coming Apart" died fast at the box office (you can get the sad details from the director's "essay" included on the DVD) and was virtually unseen by anyone for the next 30 years. Its belated release on video should change that, however.

The plot: A psychiatrist (Rip Torn) sets up a hidden camera in his apartment, which covertly records his liaisons with the unsuspecting women who end up in his lair. (Note: this movie is NOT for the kids.) Filmed (in black & white) entirely on a single set, with very little camera movement, it strongly resembles those old Warhol shorts, as well as the '60s underground flick "David Holzman's Diary," which employs roughly the same gimmick. Stars Torn and Kirkland really tear through the scenery--sometimes literally. The deliberately static style gives the proceedings a cozy intimacy and a convincingly "natural" look... but you'll probably wish, as I did, that it weren't quite so slow moving. It's a fairly interesting experiment, though, and a welcome change of pace from the manufactured junk of contemporary Hollywood cinema.

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3.0 out of 5 stars american new wave attempt, June 11, 2007

By	John Nixon (Fairacres, New Mexico USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

this film is typical of the 60's movies that tried different approaches just to be different. the film has a lot of sex but isn't sexy. Rip Torn underplays his role effectively as a womanizer whose story is told through the reflections of a mirror. those who know Torn only from Dodge Ball or Larry Sanders will be interested in seeing him as a young man. The movie reminds of french new wave films of the era and is a little difficult to follow since the premise is that you are watching an 8mm version of his interludes with different women. it isn't a "feel good story" for the entire family, but if you like different approaches to film, it is worth a look

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5.0 out of 5 stars Wowsers!, September 25, 2003

By	M. Hencke "m hencke" (New York, NY United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Easily one of the best independent films ever made. Way ahead of its time. Not for the faint of heart. Anyone interested in psychology should see this film.