Not much ties these two together except that they died on the same day. Here a list of the 24 Bergman films we have in Media Services in various formats:Ansiktet = The Magician (1959) HOME USE COLLECTION VHS 283Camera (1975) VHS 1237Cries and whispers (1972) HOME USE COLLECTION VHS 319, VHS 319Djävulens öga = The […]
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Obit: Tammy Faye Bakker, 65
The Eyes of Tammy Faye documents the life of the emotive camp icon from the time she met Jim Bakker until the fall of their ministry. DVD 468
Continue readingA Brief History of Errol Morris – now on YouTube
It may not last long. link
Continue readingGood Copy Bad Copy: a documentary about the current state of copyright and culture
It’s streaming for free online. Go. Now. link
Continue readingWelcome to American University: One student’s take
Just stumbled across this humorous AU student film on YouTube. It features Barron John Weyerhaeuser who stole the show as the ghost of John Barrymore in the February 2007 DPA production of “I hate Hamlet” link
Continue readingA Fair(y) Use Tale – a must-see primer on copyright law
Professor Eric Faden of Bucknell University tweaks the noses of the Disney lawyers with this introduction to copyright – done with dozens of brief clips from Disney films used under the fair use guidelines. I’ll assume readers are aware of Disney’s extraordinary litigious history in this area. link
Continue readingMoving Pictures: American Art and Early Film @ The Phillips Collection
I plan to see this show this weekend so don’t have any comment on it at this point other than it offers a somewhat unexamined perspective on early film. The exhibit shows the connections between early film subject matter and that of American realist painting that was going on during the same era. Works used […]
Continue readingEnvironmental Film Festival: “Why Are Wildlife Filmmakers Dying?”
Tuesday, March 20, 7:00 p.m., Wechsler Theater, Mary Graydon CenterChris Palmer, professor and filmmaker, leads a discussion on the challenges of making wildlife films, drawing on the examples of Australian wildlife superstar Steve Irwin and Grizzly Man protagonist Timothy Treadwell.Sponsor: Center for Environmental Filmmaking, School of CommunicationContact: Chris Palmer, palmer@american.edu A breakdown of all of […]
Continue readingCool online film rag: Senses of Cinema
This Australian “journal” is loaded with articles, top ten lists (many annotated), and links to other online film journals and high-brow film sites. It’s fun to browse because in addition to covering the “usual suspects” of world cinema it also contains some nice surprises including serious coverage of so-called exploitation and experimental filmmakers . For […]
Continue readingMust-see video: Our Daily Bread
If you’ve been on the fence about whether you want to become a vegetarian, this documentary may help you decide. From vegetables to livestock filmmaker Nikolaus Geyrhalter’s vivid images of the mechanization of modern food harvesting on an epic scale are fascinating, disturbing, and often just surreal. This 80 minute film hasn’t a single line […]
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