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Variety
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."
Notes on Marie Menken
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- Austria,
- United States
- 2006
- · 97m
Director
Martina Kudlácek
Cast
Kenneth Anger,
Stan Brakhage,
Peter Kubelka,
Alfred Leslie,
Gerard Malanga,
Jonas Mekas
Genre
Documentary
The story of Marie Menken, one of New York's outstanding underground filmmakers, who inspired and worked with renowned artists like Andy Warhol and became known as "the mother of the avant-garde." Menken produced nearly two dozen experimental shorts, gracefully using a hand-held Bolex camera to create rhythmic patterns of light, color, and form.
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The New York Times by 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.
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Variety by 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."
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TV Guide Magazine by 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.
50
Village Voice
While it opens a rare window into an unconventional life, this portrait of an artist as an old woman is prone to strange distractions.
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Village Voice by 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.
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