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Last Tuesday, I attended an all day workshop at the Getty Research Institute in the Getty Center complex, high above the L.A. freeway, with magnificent views towards downtown to the East and the Pacific Ocean to the West.
It never ceases to amaze me that after forty years as a film historian, I still discover films that knock me out, especially from corners I least expect it.
I’ve been reading Ross Melnick’s excellent biography, American Showman. Samuel ‘Roxy’ Rothafel and the Birth of the Entertainment Industry, recently published by Columbia University Press.
I’m starting to see lots of trailers for Gore Verbinski’s The Lone Ranger (2013), starring Armie Hammer as the masked man and Johnny Depp as Tonto. While Depp has made a career of playing exotic roles, I’m still shocked that the role of a Native American has gone to a Caucasian actor.
My first night in Paris, Serge Bromberg of Lobster Films invited me to a program of silent shorts at the auditorium of the Louvre.
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