A few weeks ago I attended a screening of Captain Blood (1935, directed by Michael Curtiz) at the Million Dollar Theater on Broadway in downtown Los Angeles, hosted by the Los Angeles Conservancy’s “Last Remaining Seats.” That series, now in its 25th year, has not only kept
Archival Spaces: Memory, Images, History
July 8, 2011 - 10:43 am
June 24, 2011 - 11:14 am
Back in March 2010, I wrote a blog about meeting L.A. Rebellion filmmaker Jamaa Fanaka when the UCLA Film & Television Archive was just beginning preparation for its forthcoming L.A. Rebellion exhibition.
June 10, 2011 - 3:47 pm
In his classic novel “Closely Watched Trains,” made into an Oscar-winning film by Jiří Menzel in 1966, the Czech writer Bohumil Hrabal describes his fellow countrymen generally as opportunistic, indolent and with an elastic sense of morality.
May 26, 2011 - 3:54 pm
I don’t know when I first went to Syracuse for Cinefest, an annual, four-day weekend convention of film collectors and fans of old movies. The event includes a market for memorabilia and 16mm screenings at a local hotel from 9 a.m. to 12:30 a.m., as well as 35mm screenings on Saturday at a local cinema, this year at the Palace in North Syracuse.
May 12, 2011 - 4:42 pm
Success came rather early to me. In 1984, at the age of 33, I was hired as Associate Curator of the Film Department at George Eastman House, then the fourth largest nitrate-holding film archive in the United States. Less than three years later, I become Senior Curator and head of the department.
