James Broughton, filmmaker, 85

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PORT TOWNSEND, Wash. (AP) - James Broughton, an avant-garde filmmaker and
poet and a key figure in West Coast independent cinema, died May 17. He was
85.

Broughton considered himself ``first and foremost a poet'' and was prominent
in San Francisco's art community for decades.

He wrote more than 20 books of verse, including ``True and False Unicorn'' -
often considered his strongest and most important long poem.

But his avant garde films such as ``Dreamwood,'' ``The Pleasure Garden'' and
``The Golden Positions'' received more attention, earning him an American
Film Institute lifetime achievement award in 1989.

One, ``The Bed,'' focused on an ornate bed in a meadow where life's most
significant moments - birth, sex and death - took place. Broughton played a
role in the all-nude film.

Broughton began making films in the mid-1940s and also wrote plays for San
Francisco's Playhouse Repertory Theater in the late 1950s and 1960s.

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