Celebrating Orphan Films
posted April 27, 2011
UCLA Film & Television Archive, New York University’s Orphan Film Symposium, and Los Angeles Filmforum present “Celebrating Orphan Films” on May 13 and May 14 2011 in Los Angeles, at the Billy Wilder Theater. The event including screenings of and discussions about 40 seldom-seen films. The presentations are part of the Orphan Film Project, an
A Universal Library
posted April 26, 2011
What would a universal library look like, and how might it be achieved? The Princeton-based Australian ethicist Peter Singer muses.
Chasing Down the Film Noir
posted April 26, 2011
Robert Miklitsch describes his hunt for the film noir. His quest was successful, and in a new book he writes all about it.
Chasing Down the Film Noir
posted April 26, 2011
In Siren City: Sound and Source Music in Classic American Noir (Rutgers University Press), Robert Miklitsch evidences a consuming passion for the form. And he achieves marvelous results, says Krin Gabbard, author of Hotter Than That: The Trumpet, Jazz, and American Culture: “Robert Miklitsch has convinced me. Sound and music in film noir are every
Converse with Kevin Brownlow
posted April 25, 2011
The UCLA Moving Image Archive Studies (MIAS) M.A. Program presents A Conversation with Kevin Brownlow, moderated by Jan-Christopher Horak, director, UCLA Film & Television Archive, on Friday, April 29 2011, at 3:30pm. (See our feature about Kevin Brownlow.)
Home Before Midnight: Fairy Tales at the Movies
posted April 22, 2011
Jack Zipes has spent decades analyzing the way the stories work, and their most effective film versions. He reports that little research has been done on fairy-tale films. He helps to rectify that with his extraordinary book, The Enchanted Screen: The Unknown History of Fairy-Tale Films. Read all about it, today on MIAN.
Fairy Tales of the Silver Screen
posted April 22, 2011
Jack Zipes has spent decades analyzing the way the stories work, and their most effective film versions. Little research has been done on fairy-tale films; but of what there is, Jack Zipes has been responsible for a large part. Among the handful of books that have appeared on the subject is his The Enchanted Screen: The
Searching for Experimental Japanese Film
posted April 20, 2011
The history of experimental arts in Japan is less a mystery to outsiders now, thanks to Miryam Sas, a Berkeley film and comparative literature scholar. In her Experimental Arts in Postwar Japan: Moments of Encounter, Engagement, and Imagined Return, she analyzes a crucial period in the history of those developments. And here on Moving Image
Thomas Waugh on Documentary Film
posted April 14, 2011
Thomas Waugh discusses “committed” documentary in his new book, which appears in June. It collects his essays from 1974-2008 relating to how the documentary film’s history and aesthetics bears on issues of the democratic performance of citizens and artists. He has some cross words for Canadian government guardians of film archives.
Looking for Jane Campion’s Tissues
posted April 14, 2011
In Jane Campion: Authorship and Personal Cinema (Indiana University Press), Alistair Fox, a professor of English and Director of the Centre for Research on National Identity at the University of Otago, presents a study of the New Zealand director, and asks how she has used her films – their symbolism, techniques, and aesthetic strategies – as