Harpur

When the Harpur offer came, Ray had not made a feature since 1963, and most recently had been forced to abandon a documentary on the trial of the Chicago Seven.

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Ms. Ray's documentary, "Don't Expect Too Much," is as frank about Nicholas Ray's lifelong alcoholism—an addiction the director beat just a couple of years before his death from cancer—and its part in the creative journey he took with his Harpur students.

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"When he knew that he was going to be teaching at Harpur, he sat down and he said, 'I know I'm going to teach by making a film," Ms. Ray said.

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When Vauncey Harpur Crewe died in the 1920s, the family retreated to a small corner of the house and closed the door on the rest.

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Various generations of the Harpur Crewe family were very reclusive.

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A new restoration of the unique, multi-image collage, which Ray undertook in collaboration with his students at SUNY-Binghamton's Harpur College, recently made its premiere at the Venice Film Festival.

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"There's a feeling in the press, I think, that by the time Nick hit Harpur College, he was done," Ms. Ray said.

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It was never an abbey – the Harpur Crewe family just added that to the name to make it sound grander.

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It's not giving away too much to reveal that Mark Lane eventually moves over to Harpur and Iles' patch and becomes chief.

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Harpur and Iles are the center, as always, but set against the comic and pathetic social aspirations of the drug dealer Panicking Ralph.

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