Classic Films by James Broughton
Experimental Filmmaker James Broughton was a widely influential proponent of the poetic art of cinema. His life story is told in the forthcoming feature-length documentary, "Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton," set to be released in 2013-2014.
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- DirectorJames BroughtonStarsJean AndersonLindsay AndersonMaxine AudleyPeople quietly or campily pass the time in an overgrown garden full of statues, while a puritanical, funereal gentleman posts bills prohibiting all leisure activities.Filmed among the ruins of The Crystal Palace Terraces, The Pleasure Garden is a playful and poetic ode to desire, and winner of the Prix de Fantasie Poétique at Cannes in 1954. Made by the American poet James Broughton, the film features Hattie Jaques and Lindsay Anderson, with John Le Mesurier as the bureaucrat determined to stamp on any form of free expression.
Lovers of the history of Crystal Palace will find much to treasure in this 1950s time capsule of a film, which shows the Crystal Colonnade and the bandstand (both later demolished), the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Memorial, and much of the statuary which was to be auctioned off in 1957. - DirectorJames BroughtonStarsHenry TaylorMargo St. JamesDiane NelsonExperimental film about a man who embarks on a journey to a mysterious island.
- DirectorJames BroughtonStarsFlorence AllenGavin ArthurImogen CunninghamA short film by James Broughton capturing the various activities of people around the same bed.
- DirectorJames BroughtonJoel SingerStarsJames BroughtonJames Broughton reads his poetry over various images.
- DirectorJames BroughtonStarsOrion BroughtonGeorge R. PriestStefani Pérez-GuerraA experimental short by James Broughton who narrates the film with a poem of the same name.
- DirectorJames BroughtonAn experimental short from James Broughton who films the changes of a pond over time.
- DirectorJames BroughtonJoel Singer
- DirectorJames BroughtonStarsJames BroughtonAn autobiography of the poet and film maker James Broughton.
- DirectorJames BroughtonStarsJames Broughton
- DirectorJames BroughtonStarsMarion CunninghamDonald PidgeonHal GoldmanAn experimental short film by James Broughton in which his childhood day's are recounted when recalling the influence his mother had on him.
- DirectorJames BroughtonStarsAnna HalprinWelland LathropPoems narrate four afternoon vignettes; each protagonist is older than the one in the previous sketch. As a girl skips rope in "Game Little Gladys," she sings a jingle about who she might marry. In a park, ten men appear atop low pedestals. Is one her future? In "Gardener's Son," a teen wakes outdoors; thinking about love, he goes about his chores, passing by classical statues and slightly-older women. In "Princess Printemps," a spring poem accompanies a somewhat addled princess as an equally silly suitor pursues her. In "The Aging Balletomane," a man rocking on a porch looks about him, remembers his youth, and sees an apparition of a woman. She dances. He reaches for her. She disappears.
- DirectorJames BroughtonA travel in close-up over the mysterious terrains of nude human bodies as they touch and explore one another.
- DirectorJames BroughtonStarsJames BroughtonThis 11 minute homage to the male member shows its subject in the various stages of erection. The voice-over poem by James Broughton includes the line "This is the secret that will not stay hidden."
- DirectorJames BroughtonJoel SingerStarsJames BroughtonWilliam ColvigLou HarrisonMen in pairs, mostly naked, perform various sensual tasks together.
- DirectorStephen SilhaEric SladeDawn LogsdonStarsJames BroughtonNeeli CherkovskiDiana DorsJames Broughton's remarkable story spans a lifetime of acclaim for his joyous experimental films and poetry celebrating the human body, finding his soulmate at age 61 and finally, his ascendancy as a revered bard of sexual liberation.