Dan Sallitt wrote:

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>>Yvonne's a teriffic filmmaker.
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>Would you care to recommend any individual films?
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The KEY one, and I think this is especially true for auteurists who love
melodrama as opposed to deconstructivists for whom Godard is a bit
old-fashioned, is "Film About a Woman Who...." A deeply personal film
about rejection and a suicide attempt (inspired, I believe, by an
incident in her own life), it's both incredibly emotional and a film
that uses titles and spoken texts to decenter the autobiographical self
in a way that points the way to the "theory" underpinning her later work
but also illuminates the pathos of a self that defines herself in terms
of others, that is, men.

The floating titles and text and fragmented images all create something
quite moving, I think, and "getting" this film is a key to seeing the
deeply emotional subtexts of films like "The Man Who Loved Women." The
emotional subtext is clearer in "Journeys From Berlin/1971," my other
favorite.

If there are defenders of "MURDER & murder" I'd like to hear from them.

A suggestion, especially for those of us who have been left in the dust
by the number of posts here: please, when you change the subject line,
indicate the previous one: "Yvonne Rainer (was: Guzetti)" etc. Using the
search function to read prior posts, I can confirm that Petric is
retired; he still lives in Cambridge, though.

- Fred C.