Charleen

1978 film by Ross McElwee
  • 1977 (1977)
Running time
54 minutesLanguageEnglish

Charleen is a 1977 observational documentary film directed and shot by Ross McElwee, about his friend and former poetry teacher, Charleen Swansea.[1][2]

Summary

McElwee follows Charleen over a month in her life in North Carolina, where she still teaches poetry and engages in interracial flirtation (to the titillation of her students),[3] and documents her friendship with American poet Ezra Pound.[4]

Production

McElwee shot the film as part of his graduate thesis at MIT.[5]

References

  1. ^ MUBI
  2. ^ FilmAffinity
  3. ^ "Play-Doc 2012 | Charleen | ROSS MCELWEE | International Documentary Festival". play-doc.com.
  4. ^ THE MEANING OF LIFE-FRONTLINE-PBS
  5. ^ Lost Illusions: American Cinema in the Shadow of Watergate and Vietnam, 1970-1979 by David O. Cook-Google Books

External links

  • Charleen or How Long Has This Been Going On? at IMDb Edit this at Wikidata
  • Homepage
  • Official trailer
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1980–2000
  • Charleen or How Long Has This Been Going On? (1980)
  • Diaries (1981)
  • The Atomic Cafe (1982)
  • Say Amen, Somebody (1983)
  • The Times of Harvey Milk (1984)
  • Shoah (1985)
  • Mother Teresa (1986)
  • Marlene (1987)
  • The Thin Blue Line (1988)
  • Let's Get Lost (1989)
  • No Award (1990)
  • Paris Is Burning (1991)
  • No Award (1992)
  • Visions of Light (1993)
  • Hoop Dreams (1994)
  • Crumb (1995)
  • Anne Frank Remembered (1996)
  • Fast, Cheap & Out of Control (1997)
  • The Big One (1998)
  • Hands on a Hardbody: The Documentary (1999)
  • The Eyes of Tammy Faye (2000)
2001–present

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