Marie Menken
Yönetmen · 1909 – 1970 · New York, New York
Marie Menken was born Marie Menkevicius in New York City on May 25, 1909, the daughter of Catholic Lithuanian immigrants. She grew up in Brooklyn with a brother and a sister, in a home used to frequent financial difficulties. Both she and her sister Adele later changed their surname to Menken. Marie Menken and Willard Maas had got married in 1937, moving into a Brooklyn penthouse at 62 Montague Street which they would inhabit until their deaths. She died on December 29, 1970. Four days after her death, on January 2, 1971, Willard Maas died.
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Film7.3BelgeselAlso known as Walden, Jonas Mekas’s first diary film is a six-reel chronicle of his life in 1960s New York, interweaving moments with family, friends, lovers, and artistic idols. Blending everyday encounters with portraits of the avant-garde art scene, it forms an epic, personal meditation on community, creativity, and the passage of time.
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
1968 · 32 votes
Film5.5Dram1966 tarihli, Paul Morrissey ve Andy Warhol tarafından yönetilmiş bir underground filmdir. Film, Warhol'un ilk büyük ticari başarısı olup, New York'ta Chelsea Hotel'de ve çeşitli farklı mekanlarda çekilmiştir. Warhol'un birçok superstar'ının oynadığı film, otelde yaşayan birkaç genç kadının hayatını anlatmaktadır. Filmin adı, Nico'nun 1967 tarihli ilk albümü Chelsea Girl'den esinlenerek konmuştur.
Chelsea Girls
1966 · 41 votes
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A look at avant-garde filmmaker Marie Menken.
Notes on Marie Menken
2006 · 5 votes
Film6.9KomediA playwright taunts a number of actors into improvising a truly ridiculous but subtlely meaningful meditation on Fidel Castro and his family.
The Life of Juanita Castro
1965 · 7 votes
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A film poem, a re-telling of the Greek myth in modern terms. In the traditional pool the water has become muddy and Narcissus finds that mirrors are more rewarding for the study of his changing reflections. There are three mirrors, each reflecting a dramatic study in self-love. The first, love that deserves the adoration of the opposite sex; the second, homosexual love that investigates itself and its own sex; the third, love that insures one a place in the present and history.
Narcissus
1957 · 1 votes
Film8.0“Andy Warhol called Marie Menken and Willard Maas ‘the last of the great bohemians,’ and, in 1965, made Bitch, his real-life parody of Edward Albee’s play Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, with Willard and Marie sitting on the couch in their living room, drunk and arguing on a Sunday afternoon. Unscripted, shot with a stationary camera in his signature home-movie documentary style, Warhol’s Bitch has never before been seen by the public—until now…” (Philip Gefter).
Bitch
1965 · 2 votes
FilmInspired by Bibbe Hansen's experiences in a juvenile detention center.
Prison
1965
Film5.2BelgeselA quotation from Aristophanes, "The desire and pursuit of the whole is called love," precedes views of a man and a woman's bodies, often in extreme close up. Off-screen, a voice recites fragments of oracular literature and purple prose. We see an eye, an ear, a mouth, a tongue, bits of hair, a hand, the tips of fingers, toes. Occasionally, the frame includes a larger scape of a body: a chest, a back, a breast. Usually the camera is stationery; sometimes, it moves across a body, remaining in close up. They hold hands for one moment. The bodies are without clothes; no genitalia are visible.
The Geography of the Body
1943 · 19 votes
Film5.0BelgeselA young male protagonist dreams of a muscleman hero, a black dancer, and a princess who gives him a magic urn. When he wakes he rejects his mother (Menken) and wanders the cold streets, where he finds his dream characters corrupted or dying.
Image in the Snow
1952 · 3 votes