Films byTexts by 1959
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Stan Brakhage, 1959, 13’
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
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Otto Preminger, 1959, 161’
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.
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Jean Renoir, 1959, 91’
Etienne Alexis, a candidate for president of the new Europe, is a scientist promoting artificial insemination for social betterment and therapy to eliminate passion.
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Roberto Rossellini, 1959, 90’
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Billy Wilder, 1959, 121’
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
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Yasujirô Ozu, 1959, 94’
Letting rip a fart –
It doesn’t make you laugh
When you live alone.
Senryu poem
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Douglas Sirk, 1959, 125’
An aspiring white actress takes in an African-American widow whose mixed-race daughter is desperate to be seen as white.
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Robert Bresson, 1959, 76’
Jeanne: You’re not in the real world. You share no interests with others.
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Howard Hawks, 1959, 141’
Jonathan Rosenbaum: When did you first write about Howard Hawks?
