Stan Brakhage films his wife Jane giving birth to their first child, Myrrena.
“We both knew that I could be most there if I were creating a film as she was giving birth.”
Stan Brakhage
A small-town Michigan lawyer takes on the difficult task of defending a young army lieutenant named Frederick Manion, arrested for the murder of a local bartender who he claims raped his wife.
Etienne Alexis, a candidate for president of the new Europe, is a scientist promoting artificial insemination for social betterment and therapy to eliminate passion.
When two male musicians witness a mob hit, they flee the state in an all-female band disguised as women, but further complications set in.
“Producer David Selznick told me mixing gangsters and comedy wouldn’t work. In fact, it did.”
Billy Wilder
Letting rip a fart –
It doesn’t make you laugh
When you live alone.
Senryu poem
An aspiring white actress takes in an African-American widow whose mixed-race daughter is desperate to be seen as white.
Jeanne: You’re not in the real world. You share no interests with others.
Jonathan Rosenbaum: When did you first write about Howard Hawks?