Notes on Marie Menken

Name: Notes on Marie Menken
Genre: Biography, Documentary
Released: February 9, 2007
Duration: 97 min
Rating: 61

2007

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First Run/Icarus Films | Release Date: February 9, 2007

Summary: This documentary explores the almost forgotten story of the legendary artist Marie Menken (1909 - 1970) who became one of New York's outstanding underground experimental filmmakers of the 1940s through the1960s. The film allows a glimpse into her social and artistic struggle and radical integrity, drawing the picture of a modern myth inThis documentary explores the almost forgotten story of the legendary artist Marie Menken (1909 - 1970) who became one of New York's outstanding underground experimental filmmakers of the 1940s through the1960s. The film allows a glimpse into her social and artistic struggle and radical integrity, drawing the picture of a modern myth in personal diary style. (First Run / Icarus Films)… Expand

Director: Martina Kudlácek

Genre(s): Biography, Documentary

Runtime: 97 min

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Leslie Felperin

Handsome tribute is paid to the eponymous experimental filmmaker in Notes on Marie Menken, the fourth feature by Austrian docu helmer Martina Kudlacek, who previously made "In the Mirror of Maya Deren." Read full review

Manohla Dargis

Notes on Marie Menken shines a quavering if welcome ray of light on a largely forgotten figure in the American avant-garde film scene of the 1940s, ’50s and ’60s. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Maitland McDonagh

While Kudlacek lets some of the elder statesmen ramble, their recollections are a vivid, firsthand window into a bygone era of American art. Read full review

Ed Gonzalez

While it opens a rare window into an unconventional life, this portrait of an artist as an old woman is prone to strange distractions. Read full review

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