Well into the 1930s, there was an expatriate community of Americans who lived in Paris or the French countryside, and who eventually became influential artists and writers. These included the painter Edward Hopper, the writer Ernest Hemingway, and the musician Virgil Thomson. Writer and poet Gertrude Stein and her lifelong companion Alice B. ...
After Jill Godmilow failed to gain entry into Poland in the early 1980s to make a documentary on the Gdansk strike and the Solidarity movement, she created this docudrama that is meant to tell her story, as well as that of the strikers and the woman who began it all, Anna Walentynowicz (Elzbieta Komorowska). Undoubtedly upset at being rejected, ...
The Chicago area boasts a large Eastern European population. This documentary is about the music and community of The Popovich Brothers, who work at blue-collar jobs by day and play Serbian ethnic music by night at churches, weddings and parties. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
In 1990, the Mabou Mines theatre group worked to perform an adapted version of Shakespeare's King Lear featuring gender-polarized characters and set in the United States in the 1950s. Directed by Jill Godmilow, Lear '87 Archive follows the cast and crew as they prepare for the controversial production. Culled from days worth of footage, the final ...
What's Underground About Marshmallows: Ron Vawter Performs Jack Smith, a "reperformance piece" recorded at New York City's "The Kitchen," is based on the late gay filmmaker Jack Smith's 1981 piece of the same title. The 60-minute program tells the story of the rivalry between Smith and avant-garde filmmaker Jonas Mekas. The late Ron Vawter ...
The gifted and intuitive, Oscar-nominated director Jill Godmilow (Antonia: Portrait of a Woman) in 1974) helms this 1980 documentary - an intimate, deeply-felt portrait of Polish theatrical legend Jerzy Grotowski. Grotowski (familiar to many given André Gregory's discussion of him in My Dinner with André) here teams up with a film crew and ...
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