Nanking – DVD 4367Civilisation – DVD 4361-4364The hours and times – DVD 4360Bad santa – DVD 4355By hook or by crook – DVD 4353It’s my party – DVD 4352The doom generation – DVD 4351Wigstock – DVD 4350Lost and delirious – DVD 4349When night is falling – DVD 4348But I’m a cheerleader – DVD 4374Better than […]
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Selected New Acquisitions This Week
Michel Brault: Oeuvres 1958-1974 Works – DVD 4341-4345Blood and Oil: The Middle East in World War I – DVD 4337Bubot niyar=Paper dolls – DVD 4336Darfur now – DVD 4325Carmen – DVD 4318Hets=Torment – DVD 4311if…. – DVD 4310Charlie Wilson’s war – DVD 4309Heaven’s gate – DVD 4307Nikutai no mon=Gate of flesh – DVD 4304
Continue readingObit: Ollie Johnston, 95, Disney Animator
Mr. Johnston, an animator who started with Walt Disney with “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” (1937)(VHS 5200), was an “inbetween artist” who specialized in communicating emotion in characters with his use of movement nuances studied from real life. Media Services has Frank and Ollie (VHS 6404), a documentary about his work and friendship with […]
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The films of Charles & Ray Eames – DVD 4281-4286Viva la muerte! – DVD 4280Billy liar – DVD 4270Kumonosu jô=Throne of Blood – DVD 4268Divorzio all’italiana=Divorce – Italian Style – DVD 4266Overstay – DVD4264Arakimentari – DVD 4260Sherman’s march – DVD 4255Who gets to call it art? – DVD 4253Sister Rose’s passion – DVD 4249
Continue readingMore streaming video from the National Film Board: Aboriginal Perspectives
In their words:“The Aboriginal Perspectives module contains 33 documentaries, a short fiction film, and 5 film clips. These productions do not represent the entirety of the films on Canada’s native peoples in the NFB collection, which comprises more than 700 such works. We did want it, however, to be a representative sample of the whole. […]
Continue readingStreaming video highlight: National Film Board of Canada’s Documentary Lens
In their words: “The purpose of Documentary Lens is to show how National Film Board documentaries have portrayed Canada and the world since the founding of the Film Board in 1939.” At present there are about 50 films available in their entirety, dated 1944-2004. Most (if not all) are under 30 minutes – on topics […]
Continue readingWhat you need to know about the digital television transition
From www.dtv2009.gov: At midnight on February 17, 2009, all full-power television stations in the United States will stop broadcasting in analog and switch to 100% digital broadcasting. The US Congress was sold on the digital broadcasting transition based on the providers’ promises of a clearer picture, more programming options, and that it will free up […]
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Cinema 16: American short films – DVD 4243The war within – DVD 4237La roue=The wheel – DVD 4235The great debaters – DVD 4232The living end – DVD 4231La Môme=La vie en rose – DVD 4228The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada – DVD 4227I’m not there – DVD 4217Jungfrukällan=The virgin spring – DVD4215King corn – DVD […]
Continue readingCool website of streaming documentaries: Folkstreams.net
This wonderful site currently has just over 100 documentaries on American roots cultures. It’s a site loaded with classics including films by Les Blank, Tom Davenport, and Alan Lomax. It’s indexed by film, filmmaker, region, subject, and featured individual. If you’re interested in Dewey Balfa, for instance, you can quickly discover he’s included in Les […]
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Hollywood harems – DVD 4210Sweet movie – DVD 4205The savages – DVD 4204Juno – DVD 4203Le ballon rouge=The red balloon – DVD 4202Les amants du pont-neuf=The lovers on the bridge – DVD 4200There will be blood – DVD 4196A major malfunction – DVD 4194Cinema 16: European short films – DVD 4190In search of international justice […]
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