On Wednesday evening, UCLA Film & Television Archive screened Charles Burnett’s 1991 film, To Sleep With Anger, in our ongoing series, “L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema.” Sony Pictures’ film preservation department under Grover Crisp produced a brand new print from the original negative for the screening which looked absolutely fabulous.
Archival Spaces: Memory, Images, History
For the past several years, colleagues of mine have been walking up to me at various film conferences and film festivals, asking me whether a certain Laura Horak is my daughter. When I finally met Laura at the Domitor Conference on early cinema in Toronto in summer 2010, I found out that lots of colleagues had been asking her whether or not I’m her father.
Back in early October, I ran into Thomas C. Christensen, who is the Danish Filminstitut Curator in Copenhagen.
The one-day L.A. Rebellion symposium, organized by Jacqueline Stewart and Allyson Nadia Field on November 12, 2011, was a smashing success. In addition to having many out-of-town scholars at the conference, we were privileged to have many L.A.
Back in July 2010, I posted a blog about lecturing to a group of eager film students in Cologne, Germany, at the Internationale Filmschule (IFS).



