Movies: Alfred Leslie
- 1959
Pull My Daisy (1959)
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Based on an incident in the life of Beat icon Neal Cassady and his wife, the painter Carolyn, the film tells the story of a railway brakeman whose wife invites a respected bishop over for dinner. However, the brakeman's Bohemian friends crash the par...
- 2006
Notes on Marie Menken (2006)
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A look at avant-garde filmmaker Marie Menken....
- 2005
After Frank (2005)
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Filmmaker, Walter Forsyth sets out on a journey to make a tribute film about photographer/filmmaker, Robert Frank, deconstructing the documentary form along the way. With appearances by Albert Maysles, Nick Broomfield, ex-Rolling Stone Mick Taylor, A...
- 2009
Alfred Leslie: Cool Man In A Golden Age (2009)
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Alfred Leslie is a pivotal American artist-painter-filmmaker whose work spans the past fifty years. A contemporary of the Abstract Expressionists and a key figure in the extraordinary social milieu of downtown New York from the 1950s and 60s to the p...
- 1965
Birth of a Nation (1965)
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Alfred Leslie's Birth of a Nation 1965 consisted of separate plays drawing upon the words of O'Hara and the writing of the Marquis de Sade....
- 1969
Travelogue: Portraits – Images from a journey (1969)
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A black-and-white travel journal, in which the themes of memories and their relationship to the past suddenly catch up and rush away from us. The film is based on a series of portraits of American artists, all of whom belong to a young and politicize...
- 2008
A Stranger Calls at Midnight, A Self-Interview of Sorts (2008)
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An autobiographical documentary about Alfred Leslie's film career....
- 1959
Pull My Daisy Production Footage (1959)
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Shot in Alfred Leslie’s Bowery loft on Fourth Avenue and 12th Street, this silent production footage belies the long-held belief that Pull My Daisy was purely improvised, offering a tender glimpse of Leslie clowning with Frank’s artist wife Mary Fran...
- 1964
The Last Clean Shirt (1964)
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In this short film, comprising a single shot, a man and woman take a car ride through downtown Manhattan. The woman speaks in double-talk Finnish, which is interpreted into a brilliantly beautiful story through subtitles written by O’Hara....