Archival Spaces 269 Liberating Hollywood. Women Directors & the Feminist Reform of 1970s American Cinema Uploaded 14 May 2021 The following review was originally written in October 2019 but remained unpublished. With a woman of color winning an Oscar for directing this year, this book remains hugely relevant. In October 2019, it was announced inContinue reading “269: 1970s Women Directors”
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255: Leo Hurwitz’s Strange Victory
Archival Spaces 255 CINE SALON BEYOND with Leo Hurwitz’s Strange Victory (1948) Uploaded 6 November 2020 Dartmouth’s Film and Media Studies Department recently sponsored a CINE SALON BEYOND (online) with host Bruce Posner and Tom Hurwitz, the award-winning documentary filmmaker who is the son of Leo Hurwitz. The event included clips from Tom’s soon-to-be-released Can You Bring It? (2020),Continue reading “255: Leo Hurwitz’s Strange Victory”
245: Strawberry Statement’s 50th
Archival Spaces 245 50th Anniversary, The Strawberry Statement (1970) Downloaded 19 June 2020 The Strawberry Statement (1970, Stuart Hagmann), based on a bestselling book by James S. Kunen, premiered 50 years ago on 15 June 1970. That academic year I was a college freshman in Athens, Ohio, when reading the novel was de rigeur. as were other youth movement favorites, including OneContinue reading “245: Strawberry Statement’s 50th”
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)”
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