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‘You Have to Keep Proving That You Exist’
Now 97, filmmaker Michael Roemer is seeing his work discovered and embraced.
The film’s reclamation came 33 years after another remarkable discovery: Roemer’s crime comedy The Plot Against Harry, shot in 1969 but unseen for decades because of failed preview screenings, had finally done the festival rounds and gotten a release in 1989. Now faced with the end, neither she nor the people around her (which includes her carpenter boyfriend, played by a young, strapping Christopher Lloyd, who began shooting the legendary TV series Taxi around this time) know how to react. It’s a book, called One of You, and it’s about a storyteller, namely myself, and how I evolved from being a child in Berlin who was pretty close to getting killed, and then went to England and then the United States, and instead of going to the Lower East Side where my fellow immigrants made their landfall, through circumstances completely out of my control I went to Harvard, and my life has been like that ever since.
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