Alan Berliner has been chronicling the final years of his friend, cousin, and former mentor, Edwin Honig - distinguished poet, translator, critic, and teacher - into the depths of Alzheimer's disease. Among many other honors, Honig received honorary "knighthoods" from Spain and Portugal for his seminal translations of Lorca, Calderón, and Pessoa that awakened English-speaking readers to the work of these literary giants. This suite of six short films reveals a poet and wordsmith who may have lost his memory and his command of language, but still retains his sense of rhythm, rhyme and sublime musicality. And through it all, his dignity.
Alan Berliner
Director
John Candy: I Like Me79%
Love, Antosha74%
Return to Me66%
My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown75%
Val71%
The Rule of Jenny Pen62%
Ruby Sparks71%
Everybody’s Everything84%
Iris64%
Elegy63%
Before Sunrise79%
Rookie of the Year61%
From Straight A's to XXX58%
Zack and Miri Make a Porno63%
Woody Allen: A Documentary69%
Stranger Than Fiction72%
Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond74%
Still Alice74%
Mickey's Christmas Carol77%
Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl72%
