The last king of Scotland – DVD 2699The Twilight Zone Season 5 – DVD 2693-2698The Twilight Zone Season 4 – DVD 2687-2692The Twilight Zone Season 3 – DVD 2682-2686The Twilight Zone Season 2 – DVD 2677-2681The Twilight Zone Season 1 – DVD 2671-2676El doctor, Joy street, & asparagus – DVD 2670Giuliani time – DVD 58
Continue readingSelected New Acquisitions This Week
Volver – DVD 2656Loves of a blonde – DVD 2654The navigators – DVD 2653The messenger – DVD 2636Harsh beauty – DVD 2635The Syrian bride – DVD 2634Borat – DVD 2633Blood diamond – DVD 2632Children of men – DVD 2631Half nelson – DVD 2630The good shepherd – DVD 2629
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 readingWashingtonPost.com Project: On Being
This woman from WashingtonPost.com, Jennifer Crandall has been creating these three minute video profiles about different people in Washington, DC. She features a new person each week. I highly recommend checking them out, especially the one with the little kid named Gio.http://specials.washingtonpost.com/onbeing/
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 readingMedia Services travelogue – Stromboli, real and neoreal
Apparently the Italian volcanic island of Stromboli is active again, spewing lava and such.link Those interested in geology, Italy and the sea might want to check out Roberto Rossellini’s Stromboli: terra di dio (Stromboli : land of God). This Neorealism classic from 1950 improbably finds Ingrid Bergman on the island of fire. Media Services call […]
Continue readingEleven Sundance films…reviewed.
Year after year that I decide to make the great plunge and join in on the Sundance Film Festival, I always return jubilant and excited…and somewhat disappointed. Why disappointed? Somehow expectations and experiences of years past continue to rise, while the actual events have peaked. Growing up was never my strong suit and nowhere is […]
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 […]
Continue readingThe pre-history of Gumby: Art Clokey’s student film Gumbasia
Made in 1955 at the University of Southern California. link
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