Neil Brand: Composer and Musical Improviser for Silent Films
posted November 23, 2011
During 25 years of accompanying and composing for silent film and other audio-visual media, Neil Brand has become one of the finest exponents of a century-old art. A MIAN interview.
How to Make “The Hobbit”
posted November 6, 2011
A joy for fans and filmmaking aficionados alike is the video blog that director Peter Jackson is keeping about his filming of The Hobbit, whose first installment is due for release at the end of 2012. He has mounted his “The Hobbit, Production Video” series on his blog and his Facebook page, and it makes
Imagine the Archives!
posted October 28, 2011
Forget The Truman Show – on madman Ilya Khrzhanovsky’s filmset-panopticon, everyone is transformed into a Soviet citizen of 1952 (Olya, Stalin-era cafeteria worker, left) as civilians act out his fantasy of lust amid mundane totalitarianism, where everyone snitches and the cameras never stop rolling… Imagine the archive!
More Books, Always More Books
posted September 25, 2011
In MIAN’s book pages, this week, you’ll find descriptions of heaps of new publications relating to film, video, television, and moving-image archiving – Zaprudered: The Kennedy Assassination Film in Visual Culture by Øyvind Vagnes (University of Texas Press, September), Chinese Women’s Cinema: Transnational Contexts, edited by Lingzhen Wang (Columbia University Press, August), Masculinity and Film Performance:
What the DVD has done for the study of film.
posted September 2, 2011
In their recent book, The DVD and the Study of Film: The Attainable Text (Palgrave Macmillan), Mark Parker, a professor of English at James Madison University, and Deborah Parker, a professor of Italian at the University of Virginia, consider how the study and reception of film has changed with the advent of movies on DVD
Jazz Icons Update
posted August 31, 2011
The latest batch of films in the Jazz Icons Series – see our article from earlier in 2011 – will appear during the next couple of months, and reflects the company’s growing relationship with France’s INA, one of Europe’s largest archives. Jazz Icons is also working, this time around, with renowned producer Michael Cuscuna and
Restoring Hitchcock
posted August 31, 2011
By 2012, the British Film Institute National Archive’s Rescue the Hitchcock 9 project is scheduled to issue fully restored version of 9 of the 10 films that Alfred Hitchcock directed during the 1920s, reports The Guardian. Only Hitchcock’s second film, The Mountain Eagle, from 1926, is eluding restoration, and only because it remains lost. The
The New BFI Bunker
posted August 31, 2011
The BBC reports on a flash, state-of-the-art storage facility in the English countryside – the British Film Institute’s Master Film Store – which this month, September 2011, will begin to ensure the safety of fragile items in the BFI’s film archive: eventually, as many as 450,000 canisters of film. Earth Times reports on the facility,
Want to Read Your Article on Film Theory and Aesthetics?
posted August 16, 2011
Dear academics: The Southwest/Texas Popular Culture/American Culture Association has issued a call for papers on film theory and aesthetics to anyone who would like to propose presenting their work at the association’s annual conference, which runs February 8-11 2012 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. You have until December 1 2011 – see our Workplace announcement.
Preserving San Francisco Bay Area Television
posted August 15, 2011
The American television network CBS’s Bay Area affiliate, KPIX-TV, reports on the work of the San Francisco Bay Area Television Archive, at San Francisco State University, in a short film that summarizes issues relating to preserving surviving footage and making it available to the public.