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Radley Metzger (also known as Radley H. Metzger and by the pseudonym, "Henry Paris") (born January 21, 1929) is an American filmmaker and film distributor most noted for popular adult erotic films, including ''I, a Woman'' (1966),〔 ''Camille 2000'' (1969), ''The Lickerish Quartet'' (1970), ''The Image'' (1975) and ''The Opening of Misty Beethoven'' (1976). According to one film reviewer, Metzger's films are noted for their "lavish design, witty screenplays, and a penchant for the unusual camera angle".〔 Another reviewer noted that his films were, "highly artistic – and often cerebral ... and often featured gorgeous cinematography".〔 == Life and career == Metzger was born in 1929 and raised in New York City. He claimed he found relief from his allergies in movie theaters while growing up.〔 Later, Metzger received a B.A. in Dramatic Arts from City College of New York,〔 where he studied with filmmakers Hans Richter and Leo Seltzer. He also studied acting privately with director Harold Clurman. During the Korean War, Metzger served in the U. S. Air Force with the 1350th Photographic Group, which interrupted his graduate studies at Columbia University.〔 Early in his career, in the 1950s, Metzger worked primarily as a film editor and was a member of Local 771 of the IATSE.〔 He was employed in editing trailers for Janus Films, a major distributor of foreign art films, especially those of Michelangelo Antonioni,〔 Ingmar Bergman,〔 Frederico Fellini〔 and Jean-Luc Godard.〔 In 1953, Metzger was credited as assistant director to William Kyriakis on the film ''Guerilla Girl''.〔 His directorial film debut, ''Dark Odyssey'' (1958) (co-directed with Kyriakis), was a drama concerning the experiences of a Greek immigrant arriving in New York. The film was favorably reviewed by the ''New York Times''.〔 In 1959, he edited the film ''The Gangster Story'', starring Walter Matthau.〔 Later, in 1961, along with film distributor Ava Leighton, Metzger founded Audubon Films, a distribution company that specialized in importing international features, some of which were marketed into the gradually expanding adult erotic film genre. Metzger's skills as an editor were employed in re-cutting and augmenting many of the features Audubon handled, including ''The Twilight Girls'' (FR,1957), ''I Spit on Your Grave'' (FR,1959) and their first runaway success, Mac Ahlberg ''I, a Woman'' (DN/SW,1965). Metzger's second directorial effort, ''The Dirty Girls'' (shot in 1963 and released in 1965), marked his emergence as a major auteur in the adult erotic film genre. His subsequent films were often shot in Europe〔 and adapted from novels or other literary sources, including ''Carmen'', ''La Dame aux Camellias'', ''L'image'' (by Catherine Robbe-Grillet), ''Naked Came the Stranger'', ''Pygmalion'', ''Six Characters in Search of an Author'' (by Luigi Pirandello),〔 ''The Cat and the Canary''〔 and ''Thérèse et Isabelle'' (by Violette Leduc). He cites John Farrow, Claude Lelouch,〔 Michael Powell and Orson Welles as influencing his work.〔 Metzger worked with the French film director Jean Renoir, as well as the American actor Hal Linden.〔 Andy Warhol was a fan of Metzger's film work〔 and commented that Metzger's film, ''The Lickerish Quartet'', was “an outrageously kinky masterpiece”. In 1972, Metzger directed the film ''Score'', based on an erotic off-Broadway play by Sylvester Stallone.〔 Films directed by Metzger included musical scores composed by Georges Auric, Stelvio Cipriani, Georges Delerue and Piero Piccioni.〔 Under the pseudonym "Henry Paris," Metzger also directed several explicit adult erotic features during the mid- to late-1970s. These films are typified by high production values, especially ''The Opening of Misty Beethoven'' (1975) and ''The Private Afternoons of Pamela Mann'' (1975), and are generally critically celebrated. Some, including ''Score'' (1974), were also released in softcore versions.〔〔 Many of these films, including ''The Image'' (1975) and ''Barbara Broadcast'' (1977), as well as Metzger's earlier softcore films, ''Camille 2000'' (1969) and ''The Lickerish Quartet'' (1970), are available in Blu-ray versions. With his 1978 feature ''The Cat and the Canary'', Metzger distinguished himself as one of the few adult film auteurs to direct a dramatic feature outside of the adult erotic film genre. The film starred Honor Blackman, Carol Lynley and Dame Wendy Hiller. Later, in the 1990s, as a result of the passing of his long-time partner, Ava, due to cancer, Metzger produced several videos on alternative health care, including one on cancer treatment, and a five-part video series on homeopathy with Dr Andre Weil. According to Metzger, "I felt that in the 1990s, people needed more information on an intelligent approach to health and disease–that they needed to know about alleviating guilt. That was my emphasis."〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Radley Metzger」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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