Jan-Christopher Horak

235: Larry Clark’s Passing Through

Archival Spaces 235 Larry Clark’s masterpiece Passing Through Uploaded 15 February 2020 On February 13, UCLA’s Melnitz movies screened Larry Clark’s thesis film Passing Through (1977) with Larry Clark in attendance,. It was the first time I had seen Larry since we restored the film for our L.A. Rebellion film program back in 2011 and the first timeContinue reading “235: Larry Clark’s Passing Through”

234: Ivan Passer (1933-2010)

Archival Spaces 234 Uploaded 10 January 2020 Ivan Passer (1933-2020) The Czech New Wave writer and director and later émigré to Hollywood, Ivan Passer, died yesterday at the age of 86 years in Reno, Nevada. Many Czechs consider his one and only feature film in Czechoslovakia, Intimate Lighting (1965) to be the best film to come fromContinue reading “234: Ivan Passer (1933-2010)”

233: Robert Frank (1924-2019)

Archival Spaces 233 Jan-Christopher Horak This is the first blog on my new website, but is a continuation of a blog I have been writing for over ten years. I started it on an Ithaca College website in 2009 at the invitation of my colleague Patty Zimmermann. In 2011, I moved it to the UCLAContinue reading “233: Robert Frank (1924-2019)”