Taken from the BFI: Robert Bresson: Alias Grace Robert Bresson’s films are so singular an achievement they have inspired legions of fine directors. Here Olivier Assayas, Bruno Dumont, Paul Schrader, Eugène Green and Aki Kaurismäki pledge their allegiance, while Michael Brooke introduces his work http://www.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/feature/49407 Robert Bresson titles available at AU Library Media Services: Diary […]
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European Film Buffet
A preview for AFI Silver’s 20th annual European Union Film Festival can be found here.
Continue readingBookhunter – a library detective story
Media Services News is happy to begin sharing this comic by Jason Shiga. Jason’s tense, gripping drama rips the lid off the seamy underbelly of the library world. Reproduced with permission, we will have a new installment each Monday.The entire comic can be seen at shigabooks.com “The year is 1973. A priceless book has been […]
Continue readingFilm Movement: a selection of recent international films
Film Movement is an ongoing series of films that have been selected by a panel of film festival curators to expose the work of important emerging international filmmakers. Three of these films will be screened here at American University over the next few weeks. Admission is free and the screenings are open to the public. […]
Continue readingNew Filmography: Body Image
Body Image / Self Perception / Self Image Filmographyhttp://www.library.american.edu/subject/media/body_image.html
Continue readingThe Baltimore Women’s Film Festival is fast approaching! Oct. 13 and 14th
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Continue reading2007 Human Rights Film Series starts Wednesday, October 3
October 3 – November 8, 2007, the 8th Annual Human Rights Film Series showcases films that show how film and video can make a difference for human rights. Discussions with expert speakers follow all screenings. NOTE:All WCL screenings will take place at 6:00pm at the Washington College of Law campus: 4801 Massachusetts Ave. NW, Washington, […]
Continue readingCenter for Environmental Filmmaking/Filmmakers for Conservation screenings at AU in October
Tuesday, Oct. 9, Rhett Turner will be discussing and screening his documentary on the ongoing honey bee crisis, Pollinators in Peril. Tuesday, October 16, David Hamlin, an Emmy award-winning filmmaker at National Geographic TV, will discuss and screen films on wildlife, adventure and archaeology. Tuesday, October 30, Kathy Milani from the Humane Society of the […]
Continue readingIt’s FREE!: Film/Video Art series this fall at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
I missed the first one, an exhibition of a couple Hollis Frampton films this past weekend, but there are four more screenings on the calendar. The screenings will be at the McEvoy Auditorium in the museum which is located at 8th and F Sts. NW. (Metro: Gallery Place/Chinatown on the Red Line). The remaining programs […]
Continue readingFree Screenings on the AU campus: Center for Environmental Filmmaking Fall Series
All Shows are held in The Wechsler Theater at 7:00 p.m. on Tuesdays.3rd floor, Mary Graydon Center, American University,4400 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, D.C. 20016 Tuesday, September 18Boyd Matson on Wild Filmmaking Adventures. Boyd hosts Wild Chronicles on PBS and has hosted National Geographic Explorer. Hear about his thrilling expeditions, high-adrenaline adventures, and being an […]
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