To get to the Národní Filmový Archiv (Czech National Film Archive) in the Žižkov district from Vysočny, where my 82-year-old aunt lives and I stay when in Prague, I take a subway to almost the center of town to Florenc, then backtrack by bus to Malešická Street, where I’m deposited not one hundred yards from the Archive.
Archival Spaces: Memory, Images, History
November 4, 2011 - 11:10 am
October 28, 2011 - 9:35 am
I couldn’t make it to the screening of Spirits of Rebellion: Black Cinema at UCLA, a new documentary film/work-in-progress by Zeinabu irene Davis. On first viewing, it promises to be the definitive statement by the filmmakers of the L.A.
October 21, 2011 - 1:40 pm
This year’s “Days of Silent Film,” held October 1-8 in Pordenone, Italy, was very much a mixed bag, including canonical works, like Leopold Jessner’s Backstairs (1923), Chaplin and Keaton, previously lost Italian silents, programs of early cinema, the Thanhouser Company, Michael Curtiz in Europe, A
October 14, 2011 - 11:15 am
On October 7, 2011, we premiered the first fully timed second answer print of Daughters of the Dust. Below is an abridged version of my opening remarks:
September 29, 2011 - 10:50 am
After almost three years of intense preparation, our film exhibition program “L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema” is nearing completion. The program is printed, our catalog at the printers.
