A New Leaf Archives - Bright Wall/Dark Room

Elaine May in The Waverly Gallery | photo credit: Brigitte Lacombe

On Elaine May’s discarded women in A New Leaf and The Waverly Gallery.

Blind Date

A New Leaf (1971) | poster by Tony Stella

For all of A New Leaf's atonal humor and surrealism, Elaine May still manages to depict marriage in a bleakly true light: as a continual, if cordial, blind date.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless May

Blind Date