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Continue readingSelected New Acquisitions This Week
Deliver us from evil – DVD 1602Chinjeolhan geumjassi=Sympathy for Lady Vengeance – DVD 3114Boksuneun naui geot=Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance – DVD 3113Inland empire – DVD 3109The fisher king – DVD 3108Forrest Gump – DVD 3106Reel talent: first time films by legendary directors – DVD 3104Garbo – The Signature Collection – DVD 3092-3100God’s warriors – DVD […]
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 readingSelected New Acquisitions This Week
Gerry – DVD 3088The candidate – DVD 3086Sunrise – DVD 3084Bee season – DVD 3079The U.S. versus John Lennon – DVD 3078Blowup – DVD 608Seizure – VHS 7953
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 […]
Continue readingSelected New Acquisitions This Week
The pursuit of happyness – DVD 3075Bigger than life – DVD 3074 (PAL Region 2 DVD)Night on Earth – DVD 3073Playtime – DVD 3072Das leben der anderen = The lives of others – DVD 3070Lola la trailera = Lola the truck driver – DVD 3069
Continue readingMore Cool Streaming Video: This from the Paley Center for Media
They have clips of events they’ve hosted in their New York and Los Angeles locations. Fun stuff like panel discussions with: the “whacked Sopranos”; the writing staff for “Late Night with Conan O’Brian”; the cast of “30 Rock”. Take a look. link
Continue readingMind Online: Streaming video of lectures at the University of Chicago
Errol Morris is among the few Film Studies lecturers in this rich electronic archive of video and audio recordings. In their words, this is “a collection of thought-provoking samples from the University’s intellectual life, both past and present.” link
Continue readingNicholas Ray’s Bigger Than Life
Gorgeously presented by the British Film Institute, Nicholas Ray’s Bigger Than Life has just arrived on region 2 DVD and is now available in Media Services. HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 3074 Released in 1956, less than a year after Rebel Without a Cause, Bigger Than Life stands next to Douglas Sirk’s All That Heaven Allows […]
Continue readingGuilty Pleasures – 100 Best Directors Ever lists – this one according to UK film rag Total Film
These are fun to read, mostly for the surprises in the countdown, but ultimately don’t mean anything. I know you’re curious so I won’t spoil it. link
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