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Underground Film Links: May 13, 2012
13 May 2012 1:02 PM, PDT | Bad Lit | See recent Bad Lit news »
For this week’s Must Read, I don’t know if this is a one-off or a series, but I hope it’s a continuing series. Mike Plante of Cinemad has posted up an article from the old print version of the online zine — and it’s a doozy! Stan Brakhage meets Godfrey Reggio!I don’t know about anybody else, but I’m completely digging BadAzz MoFo’s poster hall of fame series of posts. Here’s a great one for The Land That Time Forgot and The People That Time Forgot, movies most people have probably forgotten since they suck so bad. Also, Slave Girls From Beyond Infinity, which apparently isn’t as sleazy as it sounds.Donna k. gushes over Troy, NY’s Empac again and perhaps for the last time.Migrating Forms is going on right now and there were lots of write-ups about the films and filmmakers, »
- Mike Everleth
Academy’s New “Film-To-Film” Preservation Includes The Lady Eve, The Princess Bride, Airplane!
7 May 2012 1:33 PM, PDT | WeAreMovieGeeks.com | See recent WeAreMovieGeeks.com news »
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has undertaken a unique expansion in film preservation. As the rise of digital technology drastically reduces the availability of film stock, the project accelerates the work of the Academy Film Archive to acquire and create new archival film masters and prints from at-risk elements. Under the banner “Film-to-Film,” the $2 million initiative, approved by the Academy.s Board of Governors, focuses largely on Academy Award®-winning and nominated films from across motion picture history, including works made as recently as the 1990s.
“This is a moment of great transition for our industry, and we are responding to the urgency of that moment,” said Dawn Hudson, Academy CEO. “By increasing our preservation efforts now, we are building a vital pipeline of films and film elements that we will not only safeguard, but also make available for audiences well into the future.”
Until recently, the »
- Michelle McCue
Blu-ray Review: A Hollis Frampton Odyssey (The Criterion Collection)
2 May 2012 4:27 PM, PDT | GordonandtheWhale | See recent GordonandtheWhale news »
Within the world of avant-garde, experimental filmmaking, there happens to be a pantheon of patron saints that young filmmakers become inspired by. Be it something as tame as early Jim Jarmusch (I’m thinking the bizarre and kinetic Permanent Vacation), something as breathtakingly simplistic and beautiful as the films of Jean Painleve, or the god of the experimental world Stan Brakhage, experimental cinema carries with it some of the most refreshing pieces one could imagine.
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- Joshua Brunsting
Amos Vogel, a Leading Figure of Modern American Film Culture, Dies at 91
25 April 2012 8:49 AM, PDT | The Hollywood Reporter | See recent The Hollywood Reporter news »
Amos Vogel, creator of the influential Manhattan avant garde film club Cinema 16 and co-founder of the New York Film Festival, died Tuesday in his apartment off Washington Square Park. He was 91. With New York missing the serious film societies prevalent in his native Austria, Vogel and his wife Marcia in 1947 founded Cinema 16 to screen "films you cannot see elsewhere." Photos: Hollywood's Notable Deaths of 2012 During the next 16 years, Vogel opened the public's eyes to such filmmakers as Maya Deren, Stan Brakhage, Bruce Conner, Kenneth Anger, Brian De Palma, Georges Franju, Richard Lester,
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- Mike Barnes
Amos Vogel, Founder of the New York Film Festival and Cinema 16, Dies at 91
25 April 2012 7:11 AM, PDT | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
The promotional materials for Cinema 16, the groundbreaking film society founded in 1947 by Amos Vogel, advertised Films You Cannot See Elsewhere. But for Vogel, who died peacefully Tuesday at the age of 91 in the apartment off Washington Square Park where he had lived since the fifties, assembling a film program was an art in itself. Inspired by the dialectical clash of Einsenstein’s montage, Vogel set avant-garde shorts next to a documentary about South American ants; a program from January 1959, reproduced in Scott MacDonald’s “Cinema 16: Documents Towards a History of the Film Society,” featured Buster Keaton’s “The General” and Stan Brakhage’s “The Wonder Ring.” Asked on the occasion of a 2004 tribute what he intended to produce through such sometimes jarring juxtapositions, Vogel answered simply: “Film culture.” Vogel’s influence continued after Cinema 16 shut its doors in 1963. That same »
- Sam Adams
Daily Briefing. Hitchcock, Borzage, Ozu, More
24 April 2012 1:42 PM, PDT | MUBI | See recent MUBI news »
Farley Granger "didn't fear the homoerotic subtext of either of the films he did for Hitchcock," writes Farran Nehme in the run-up to the For the Love of Film III Blogathon. "Mind you, in his autobiography Granger says he spent years disappointing critics and interviewers when asked about discussions with Hitchcock about just what was going on between Rope's two main characters: 'What discussions? It was 1948.' That didn't mean, though, that Granger himself and co-star John Dall were clueless." And as for Strangers on a Train (1951): "Given a role of ambiguous morality, he increases the questions about the character, rather than trying to emphasize the good-Guy qualities."
Charles Lyons for Filmmaker on Annette Insdorf's Philip Kaufman: "The first book-length assessment of Kaufman's oeuvre, which will reach 14 films when Hemingway and Gellhorn premieres on HBO in May [it also screens Out of Competition at Cannes], Philip Kaufman is a shrewd and very readable study. »
2012 Ann Arbor Film Festival: Award Winners
2 April 2012 7:00 AM, PDT | Bad Lit | See recent Bad Lit news »
The historic 50th annual Ann Arbor Film Festival wrapped up on April 1 with a whole gaggle of awards going to numerous filmmakers, celebrating the best in experimental, animation, documentary, Lgbt, international, music video and more categories.
The big winner of the event was Hayoun Kwon for her animated short film Lack of Evidence (Manque de Preuves), about a Nigerian child who survives a ritualistic murder by his own father. The Seoul-born, Paris-based filmmaker took home the Ken Burns Award for Best of the Festival.
On the experimental film front, Betzy Bromberg won the Stan Brakhage Film at Wit’s End award for her feature-length experimental film Voluptuous Sleep; while Sylvia Schedelbauer won the Gus Van Sant Award for Best Experimental Film for her short film Sounding Glass; and Robert Todd won the Kodak/Colorlab Award for Best Cinematography for two films, Undergrowth and Within.
Renown animator Don Hertzfeldt shared the »
- Mike Everleth
Watch Films by Larry Jordan
27 March 2012 5:39 AM, PDT | MUBI | See recent MUBI news »
Larry Jordan, occasionally known in more formal circles as Lawrence Jordan, has been making experimental and animation films for half a century now. He grew up in Denver, won a scholarship to Harvard, then dropped out to start a theater back in Colorado with his high school friend, Stan Brakhage. "Stan was always the director," Jordan wrote in a remembrance in the Millennium Film Journal in 2003. "He seemed to have far-reaching radar for locating people and works in the art world. Five of our gang came out to San Francisco in about 1954. (Stan came first — always the avant-garde.) When I arrived, he was living in the basement of poet Robert Duncan and painter Jess Collins. We had one old car, a flatbed trailer for our gear, and about five films between us. So naturally we started out to tour California, showing our wares."
They eventually wound up in New York, »
2012 Brakhage Center Symposium: Official Program
12 March 2012 11:39 AM, PDT | Bad Lit | See recent Bad Lit news »
The 8th annual Brakhage Center Symposium has been programmed by curator Kathy Geritz and will examine the concept of experimental narrative over three days of screenings and lectures on March 16-18 at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Geritz has pulled together a program in which experimental films explore notions of narrative through diverse means, whether combining with documentary or animated elements, or through nonlinear structure, or through the direct experience of time. As Geritz hopes: “In these different ways, the films presented will challenge and expand our expectations as they push the boundaries of storytelling conventions.”
Some of the filmmakers who will be present at the symposium are animators Stacey Steers and Chris Sullivan, experimental documentary filmmaker Amie Siegel and Cannes Film Festival Palme d’Or winner Apichatpong Weerasethakul, who will be screening his 1987 acclaimed feature film Syndromes and a Century and the more recent short film Emerald (2007).
Also, film critic and historian J. »
- Mike Everleth
Underground Film Links: February 26, 2012
26 February 2012 6:00 AM, PST | Bad Lit | See recent Bad Lit news »
Yes, the Oscars are being held tonite and despite Bad Lit’s predilection towards underground film, we will be watching, red carpet and all. But, if you want to kill time during the commercials, then consider clicking on some extra links below and boning up on non-Oscar film.
This week’s Absolute Must Read is J. J. Murphy’s Best Indie Films of 2011 list and commentary. In general, I rarely read movie reviews, but I find Murphy’s reviews to always be so insightful, educational and entertaining, that I savor every word of them — and you should, too! I’m also 100% with him when he discusses the issues of writing about over-looked and under-appreciated movies. It can be absolutely heartbreaking work, but we do it because we love it. And the other thing about Murphy’s reviews is that they always make me want to run right out and see »
- Mike Everleth
Hugo and the magic of film trickery
24 February 2012 4:05 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
With Georges Méliès as its subject, Martin Scorsese's Hugo – up for 11 Oscars – is a film that gives meaning to the cliché 'the magic of the movies'
Should you stay up for the Oscars, here's a surefire way to be hammered by the end: pour yourself a drink each time you hear the word "magic", and you'll be watching the winner's tearful acceptance speech in an alcoholic haze.
Is there a phrase more hackneyed than "the magic of the movies"? From the moment of their invention at the end of the 19th century, motion pictures have been perceived as simultaneously hyper natural and supernatural. The first films of the Lumiére brothers were simple recordings ("actualities") that established the photographic basis of the medium; those produced by the stage magician Georges Méliès, the subject of Martin Scorsese's impressive 3D spectacle Hugo, were fantastic and predicated on special effects – namely stop-motion, »
- J Hoberman
A Rare Brand of Honesty: Robert Kramer's Milestones / Ice
21 February 2012 2:28 PM, PST | GreenCine | See recent GreenCine news »
Reviewer: Simon Paul Augustine
Ratings (out of five): Milestones ****
Ice ** 1/2
“I was having this dream, the feeling of a gap between what I believe in, and what my life is like day to day…” – from Milestones
Even in the context of underground cinema of the late 60’s and 70’s, Robert Kramer’s Milestones stands as a dizzying confluence of genres and styles, reality and fiction. Kramer is a prominent figure in the American Diy scene that existed forty years ago – a time when auteurs outside the Hollywood system, in lieu of the unprecedented access to video and computer technology that fuels today’s indies, were heir to a tradition that used real film stock and mother-of-invention ingenuity to plumb the possibilities of how celluloid, including its physical tangibility, could harnessed for expression. Part of a lineage that included predecessors like Stan Brakhage and Kenneth Anger, Kramer and his contemporaries merged text, »
- weezy
Phantom Menace Reissue Nostalgia: 13 Writers Remember Their First Date With Jar Jar
9 February 2012 9:20 AM, PST | Moviefone | See recent Moviefone news »
What a difference 13 years makes. This weekend, Star Wars: Episode 1 - The Phantom Menace is being re-released in theaters, this time with an added third dimension, and not many seem to care. Contrast that to what happened in 1999, when the original release was caught up in a sixteen-year storm of hype. To help excavate our suppressed collective memories, Moviefone asked 13 writers -- including one who was there with George Lucas at the premiere at Skywalker Ranch -- to take us back to what we all thought was going to be a very glorious day. Kurt Loder, Movie Critic, Reason Online Who could forget their first exposure to The Phantom Menace? For a talented man, Lucas has a minimal flair for gripping dialogue ("Hold me like you did by the lake on Naboo"), nifty plot devices (a galactic tax dispute?), colorful character names (Nute Gunray? Shmi Skywalker?), or, Lord knows, »
- Mike Ryan
Brakhage @ MoMA
2 February 2012 11:29 AM, PST | MUBI | See recent MUBI news »
Night Music (1986)
You may recall our alert in mid-December regarding what amounts to a fairly extensive retrospective of films by Stan Brakhage going on at MoMA in New York. There wasn't much noise being made about it at the time, and now, several weeks on, there still isn't, so here's a second alert. The screenings are taking place daily at 3pm in the Time Warner Screening Room on the 2nd floor of the Museum's Lewis B and Dorothy Cullman Education and Research Building, with the program changing once a week on Wednesdays. The schedule through March 5:
February 1-6:
Confession. 1986. 16mm. 18 fps. Color. 24 min
Night Music. 1986. 16mm. Color. 30 sec.
Loud Visual Noises. 1987. 16mm. 24 fps. Color. Music compilation by Joel Haertling. 3 ½ min
Kindering. 1987. 16mm 24fps. Color. Music by Architects Office. 3 min
Rage Net. 1988. 16mm. Color. 30 sec.
Babylon Series. (1-3). 1989. 16mm. 18 fps. Color. Total: 12 min.
The Dante Quartet. 1987. 35mm. 18 fps. Color. »
And Then The Camera Goes Up The Jockey's Ass: A Close Look at "Luck"
30 January 2012 8:28 PM, PST | MUBI | See recent MUBI news »
Like the double-wide premiere for HBO's Boardwalk Empire, the pilot for the network's new horse-racing series Luck—first broadcast December 11th, and then re-run this past Sunday—represents a meeting of two distinctive authorial voices. In the case of the Boardwalk Empire pilot—a high-water mark of style and efficiency that the frequently-frustrating series has never managed to live up to, aside from a couple of episodes neatly directed by Carpenterite horror specialist Brad Anderson—it was episode director / series executive producer Martin Scorsese and episode writer / series creator Terrence Winter; in the case of Luck, it's episode director / series executive producer Michael Mann and episode writer / series creator David Milch.
The interplay of low-lifes and big spenders in Luck's pilot is distinctly Milch's. It's clear from the episode's structure alone—a lot of jargony horse-racing intrigue spinning around a story about four track regulars who finally win it »
Underground Film Links: January 29, 2012
29 January 2012 6:00 AM, PST | Bad Lit | See recent Bad Lit news »
New feature that I tried out last week and which I plan on continuing into the future: Check Bad Lit: The Journal of Underground Film’s Facebook page tomorrow (Monday) to see which link got the most clicks.
The L.A. Times published an in-depth profile of filmmaker Nicholas McCarthy about his struggles in trying to get a feature film going. A coda that happened post article publication: McCarthy’s The Pact just got picked up for distribution by IFC Midnight after a few successful Sundance screenings. I remember reviewing the short film version of The Pact about a year ago…Speaking of Sundance, if you want an awesome “boots on the ground” report on what attending the festival is actually like, you have to scroll through donna k.’s tons of film reviews and photo posts about her adventures there. I’ve avoided all other Sundance coverage except hers. »
- Mike Everleth
Pina's Eyes: A Conversation With Wim Wenders
10 January 2012 7:19 AM, PST | MUBI | See recent MUBI news »
Discredited by its current usage as spectacular entertainment in roller coaster summer blockbusters, 3D technology has only recently explored its potential for cinematic storytelling. How intriguing that its most effective use to date has been, arguably, in documentaries. As if to prove Rupert Sheldrake's theory of morphic resonances, approximately at the same time that Werner Herzog offered audiences a chance to experience the glistening Chauvet Cave—heretofore off limits—Wim Wenders applied 3D technology to reveal the intimate cadances of dance theater in his evocative and justly-lauded tribute to German choreographer Pina Bausch. Whether Wenders' Pina and Herzog's Cave of Forgotten Dreams can indeed be squared off as "apples and oranges" (per David Hudson), there is no question that 2011 marks the shift from 3D's adolescence into the first sure signs of maturity.
Hudson has, of course, rounded up the chorus of reviews post-Berlinale, from the New York Film Festival, »
Hey Montreal! CinemaSpace is proud to launch its Winter/Spring 2012 Programming with The Travelling Tour of the 49th Ann Arbor Film Festival
9 January 2012 9:51 PM, PST | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
CinemaSpace is proud to launch its winter/spring 2012 programming with The Travelling Tour of the 49th Ann Arbor Film Festival, the longest-running experimental film festival in North America.
Ann Arbor Film Festival is back again with its tour programs! Divided into two high-quality digital and 16mm programs, the travelling tour of the 49th Ann Arbor Film Festival (Aaff) offers 17 short films 7 different countries, featuring award-winning and favourite new works from the 2011 edition across all genres: experimental, documentary, fiction, animation and hybrids. Some of the highlights of the programs include Home Movie (Best Narrative Film Award) by Braden King, director of the award-winning feature Here (Berlinale 2011, Sundance 2011), and The Florestine Collection (Jury Award) by the late animator Helen Hill, who was murdered in a home invasion in New Orleans in 2007, and her husband Paul Gailiunas, who survived the incident and eventually completed the film three years later.
Here is all the info:
Program I: Thursday, »
- Ricky
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