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Posted by: Mike Mashon
Ah, September. The first hints of cooler fall weather, football season starts, and baseball pennant races heat up…even as we ruefully acknowledge that Washington Nationals fever isn’t quite where it was last year. For those of us who toil in the federal vineyards, September also marks the end of the fiscal year. I recently attended …
Posted in: Film/Video, Motion Pictures
Posted by: Cary O’Dell
The following is a guest post by Jenny Paxson, an Administrative Assistant at the Packard Campus. Thursday, October 1 (7:30 p.m.) Reservoir Dogs (Miramax, 1992, R-rated*) With his directorial debut of Reservoir Dogs, Quentin Tarantino went from being an unproduced screenwriter and part-time actor to one of the most influential filmmakers of the 1990s. In …
Posted in: Motion Pictures, Packard Campus Theater
Posted by: Mike Mashon
The following is a guest post by Nitrate Vault Manager George Willeman. Because a significant amount of our nitrate film collection was donated to or deposited with us by Hollywood studios–Columbia, Warner Bros., Paramount, and Disney all being good examples–we’ve developed a particular expertise when it comes to identifying variations in corporate logos. One of …
Posted in: Motion Pictures
Posted by: Cary O’Dell
The following is a guest post by Jenny Paxson, an Administrative Assistant at the Packard Campus. Thursday, September 24 (7:30 p.m.) The Changeling (Associated Film, 1980, R rated *) After his wife and daughter are killed in a car accident, classical composer John Russell (George C. Scott) moves to Seattle to teach at his alma …
Posted in: Motion Pictures, Packard Campus Theater
Posted by: Mike Mashon
The following is a guest post by Jenny Paxson, an Administrative Assistant at the Packard Campus. September guest programmer Rachel Parker offers more entertaining selections. Thursday, September 17 (7:30 p.m.) What Dreams May Come (Polygram, 1998) Robin Williams stars as physician Chris Nielsen who, after dying in car accident and going to heaven, discovers that …
Posted in: Motion Pictures, Packard Campus Theater
Posted by: Mike Mashon
Spring practice has come and gone, minicamps, two-a-days and OTAs are done, and–mercifully–we’re finished with preseason games for the pros. College football started last weekend and the NFL starts in a few days; let the anxiety and heartburn begin! The oldest football film in the Library’s collection is the 14 November 1903 match between Princeton …
Posted in: Film/Video, Motion Pictures, Paper Prints
Posted by: Mike Mashon
The following is a guest post by Jenny Paxson, an Administrative Assistant at the Packard Campus. Please note that the program originally scheduled for September 9 (Verdi and the Silent Film) has been postponed. More treats from September guest programmer Rachel Parker. Wednesday, September 9 (7:30 p.m.) Monte Carlo — silent version (Paramount, 1930) Ernest …
Posted in: Motion Pictures, Packard Campus Theater
Posted by: Mike Mashon
The following is a guest post by Rachel Parker, a Processing Technician in the Moving Image Section, and our theater programmer in September. I am a native of Nashville, Tennessee, and graduated from Chapman University in Orange, California. I arrived at the Packard Campus in 2009 after an internship at the Academy Film Archive, and …
Posted in: Motion Pictures, National Film Registry, Packard Campus Theater