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THE LADY IN BLACK DIPS HER FIN-gers in her champagne glass and smears bubbly on her slicked-back hair. "They say if you put champagne in your hair it will stay whatever happens, right?" she says to the camera, in a Manhattan drawl. Then she puts her top hat on, angles it jauntily, and proceeds to deliver a blistering critique of misogyny in Hollywood.
This is rare footage of the late film director Shirley Clarke, who has been described as one of the most innovative film-makers in the American New Wave. Her award-winning shorts and ground-breaking feature films prefigure much more modern film-making, though her name is largely absent from the annals of cinematic history.See the full content of this document
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One Woman Studio
Now Clarke's work is to get a long overdue revival when the Edinburgh International Film Festival hosts the most comprehensive Shirley Clarke retrospective ever, including rarely seen shorts and hard-to-trace documentary footage of the director herself.
"Rather than just show the highlights of a short but incredibly important career, we want to paint a picture of this amazing person," says the EIFF's Niall Grieg Fulton, who has organised the retrospective. "We hope that people will get engaged by her personality and her ideas, and from that get into the joy that...See the full content of this document
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