As the director nears his 11th decade, two of his films, Nothing But a Man and The Plot Against Harry are being restored; both are marvels of independent cinema
ichael Roemer, 95, is one of film’s finest chroniclers of postwar American aspiration. His debut, Nothing But a Man, won two prizes at theover half a century ago, using Euro-neorealism to tell the story of a working-class Black couple in Alabama. The result is a moving and unflinching depiction of the daily realities of racism, and one of the most brilliant truly independent films of all time.
After Nothing But a Man, he turned to teaching to support himself, joining the faculty at Yale in 1966. He hasn’t made a movie in almost 40 years, and all seven of his films were, until recently, difficult to view.
Down at the Bronx block he used to run, Harry is told that the neighbourhood has changed. Hispanic and Black mobsters now control the area, and yesterday’s Jewish roughnecks have turned to white-collar suburbanites. It is not that he laments the slipping away of his heritage or verbalises any ethnic grievance. Rather, Harry had found his identity in the power that has now slipped through his hands. He now seems unmoored. Says Roemer: “His identity is money.
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