While a graduate student in Library and Information Studies at UC Berkeley, Tom Fleming worked at PFA, where he contributed invaluably toward several important new cataloging projects. Tom's dry wit, sharp intellect, and extensive knowledge of film and the arts made him a joy to work with. He had worked as an actor with several San Francisco theater companies, stage director for Pocket Opera, and in the script department of Orion Pictures before entering graduate school. He also sang with several symphony choruses. In December 1993, Tom's parents, Dean S. and Elizabeth M. L. Fleming, made a gift of $25,000 to PFA in memory of Tom, a gift which provides vital support for the Film and Book Cataloging Project, thus increasing access to the PFA collection for students and scholars worldwide. For this generous bequest, we are very grateful. Tom saw the film Jeanne Dielman at PFA and it made a strong impact on him. It was a measure of his complex wit that we never knew whether he actually liked the film-but he talked about it for days afterward, and it reminds us of him. In Jeanne Dielman, three days in the life of a forty-year-old bourgeois widow are depicted in three hours and fifteen minutes of film. We watch Jeanne Dielman (Delphine Seyrig) perform the repetitious, robotized routines she requires to maintain her fusty home and care for her pampered, sullen son-precisely timed activities which include prostituting herself each afternoon in her own tidy bedroom after she puts the potatoes on to boil and before her boy returns from school. So familiar do we become with the structure of this woman's life that an excruciating Hitchcock-like tension emerges when she simply forgets to put the lid on her cash kitty, or turn off a light. This is a tight, engrossing and exhilarating experiment with a new kind of "melodrama," and a masterful integration of the commercial feature with the avant-garde film, shot by an all-woman crew.