Berkeley Silent-Film Conference
posted February 13, 2011
The Department of Film and Media at the University of California, Berkeley presents The First International Berkeley Conference on Silent Cinema, with a theme of Cinema Across Media: The 1920s, running February 24–26 2011. The international, interdisciplinary conference will include plenary speeches, roundtables, concurrent panels, and a series of silent film screenings with live musical
The Poet of British Film
posted January 13, 2011
The British director, Humphrey Jennings (1907-1950), has been described as the foremost poet of British cinema for his documentary films of Britain at peace and war, and for a range of representational approaches that transcended accepted notions of wartime propaganda and revised the strict codes of British documentary film of the 1930s and 1940s. Jennings,
National Society of Film Critics Heritage Awards
posted January 8, 2011
The National Society of Film Critics has announced its annual awards – voted by film critics, naturally enough – and as always included a slate of honorees in its “Film Heritage” category, to recognize the efforts of archives and archivists. Listed with the winners are the archives that restored the films, as reported by Dennis
The New Chinese Documentary
posted January 4, 2011
In the introduction to her earlier, 2003 book, Documentary China: The New Documentary Movement in Contemporary China, Lu Xinyu described the movement, dated to the late 1980s, as “a new way of looking at the world from the grass-roots up; a way of clearly understanding what drives different classes to survive and what feelings they
A New Book on Tennessee Williams’ Movie Colleagues
posted December 29, 2010
Read about new books about moving image forms, and their archiving, on our New Books pages. In Tennessee Williams and Company: His Essential Screen Actors (Hansen Publishing Group), John DiLeo presents his study of 11 actors, including Marlon Brando, Madeleine Sherwood, and Anna Magnani (see cover photo, left, where she appears with Williams on the
The Rise of Nollywood
posted December 29, 2010
In a new book, researchers of contemporary African cinema describe the influence of French-language cinema of the 1960s, and what came after. Among many compelling perspectives on the film of the continent are those dealing with the extraordinary rise of “Nollywood” – cheaply made and highly popular films from Nigeria. Viewing African Cinema in the
Twenty-Five Films Added to the National Film Registry
posted December 28, 2010
The Library of Congress has named 25 motion pictures that are "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" to the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress.
New in Our Book Pages: The Life and Art of Busby Berkeley
posted December 27, 2010
When new books appear that relate to moving images in any format, Moving Image Archive News lists and describes them in the Books section. (If you know of any we’ve missed, please let us know through info@movingimagearchivenews.org.) We also ask authors to share their experiences of locating source material for their books – moving images
Historic Cricket Footage Found in a Shed
posted December 22, 2010
A family in England has discovered film from 1928-29 that is of great significance to both English and Australian histories of the game.
Found in the Archives on NPR
posted December 8, 2010
Found in the Archives, a new monthly feature on NPR's online The Picture Show, features memorable newsreel, government film, collection of photographs, cartoons or maps unearthed in archives and private collections.