SPOTLIGHT!
MONDAY NIGHT FILM SERIES!
Monday, Sept 16, 2019, Tilley Hall, UNB Campus
Film Society members: $5/General Admission: $8
Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love
Nick Broomfield
USA, 2019
English, Norwegian, w/ English subtitles
97 minutes
With: Marianne Ihlen, Leonard Cohen, Judy Collins, Helle Goldman, Richard Vick
Most of what we know of Marianne Ihlen, we learned through Leonard Cohen’s enigmatic “So Long, Marianne.” In his latest doc, Nick Broomfield (Whitney: Can I Be Me, Kurt & Courtney) examines the love affair between Ihlen and Cohen that began on the Greek island of Hydra in 1960
Through never-before-seen archival foot- age and interviews with their friends and former colleagues, a portrait emerges of the woman behind the lyrics and the long-lasting influence she had on Cohen. Broomfield himself was inspired by Ihlen. After a brief romantic dalliance with Broomfield in 1968, she encouraged him to make his first film. They remained friends until her death in 2016, three months prior to Cohen’s death.
Much of Ihlen and Cohen’s story is made up of the time they spent apart, though Cohen continued to write to her after leaving Hydra to pursue his music career. “I was always escaping. I was always trying to get away,” Cohen expressed in an interview.
The interviews in Words of Love are a tell-all of Cohen’s concerts and conquests, revealing the women in his life to be the source of many of his songs. But Ihlen was his longest-lasting influence. Famously, he wrote to her not long before her death: “Know that I am so close behind you that if you stretch out your hand, I think you can reach mine.”
Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love is a remarkable and rare portrait of a love that lasted a lifetime, from its intoxicating beginning to its poetic end. While the proof of it will live on in Cohen’s songs, this documentary captures the time, place, and circumstance that ignited the heart of a soulful singer-songwriter.
“As much poetry as documentary — it’s a gentle, rhapsodic film, an emotional change of pace for its director and a moving portrait of a love that still resonates.” Steve Pond, The Wrap
SPOTLIGHT!
NBFC 40TH ANNIVERSARY -
CALL FOR PHOTOS, PROPS, COSTUMES, POSTERS, AND MORE!
Attention filmmakers! We are looking to gather photographs for the NBFC 40th Anniversary Facebook page. Have old photos from your first shoot? A Co-op party? Silver Wave? The older the better, but we want them all!
We also want your stellar memorbilla items from shoots (signage, hard copy posters, designed magazines covers, props, crazy costumes etc...) Email Cat at: info@nbfilmcoop.com
You can post the photos yourself on the Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/nbfilmcoop40years/) under the Visitors Post section, or you can email the photos directly to britsparrow@gmail.com and we will make sure to post them. Please make sure you say when the photo was taken, provide context for the photos, and credit the photographer if possible.
We are also looking to make a play list of Film Co-op films on both YouTube and Vimeo so if you have films online please send the links to britsparrow@gmail.com.
Also, be sure to like and follow the Facebook page so that you can see all of the photos people have shared. It's going to be quite the trip down memory lane!
Thanks everyone!
Brit
SPOTLIGHT!
CASTING CALL FOR MEMBER FILM!
(Photo - Moncton based Film Co-op member filmmaker Nick Staples. Nick recently received a Short Film Venture grant and artsnb grant.)
Open casting call - Non-Union - Paid
Synopsis: A young couple face an unsettling, convoluted mystery while struggling with deeper unresolved issues.
Length: 10 minutes
Director: Nicholas Staples
Shooting Date: January, 2020
Alexis - A young woman (mid-20’s) with anxiety regarding the uncertainties in her future and relationship, who due to an uncomfortable incident struggles with doubt and paranoia.
Marc - Alexis’ partner (20’s), bad at relationships. Perpetually minimizing Alexis’ concerns and deflecting her questions for the sake of maintaining their relationship for better or worse.
Email headshot to SlowFightfilm@gmail.com
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