The following is a guest post by Jenny Paxson , an Administrative Assistant at the Packard Campus. Thursday, December 3 (7:30 p.m.) Love Actually (Universal, 2003 – R-rated *) The intertwining stories of more than twenty characters in London, England, are followed during the busy month leading up to Christmas in this romantic comedy written …
Last year the Library published The Survival of American Silent Feature Films: 1912-1929, a sobering reminder of the astonishingly poor survival rate of this one sliver of motion picture history. And it’s not just silent features either. Although no comprehensive study has been done of shorts, features, and documentaries across all of film history, the …
The following is a guest post by Jenny Paxson, an Administrative Assistant at the Packard Campus. Thursday, November 19 (7:30 p.m.) Gimme Shelter (Cinema 5 Distributing, 1970 – R-rated *) This astounding documentary follows the Rolling Stones on the last ten days of their 1969 North American tour which ended with a disastrous day-long free …
The following is a guest post by Jenny Paxson, an Administrative Assistant at the Packard Campus. Thursday, November 12 (7:30 p.m.) William Wellman Double Feature Wild Boys of the Road (Warner Bros., First National, 1933) Historians estimate that more than 250,000 American teens were living on the road at the height of the Great Depression, …
The following is a guest post by Jenny Paxson, an Administrative Assistant at the Packard Campus. Thursday, November 5 (7:30 p.m.) Lafayette Escadrille (Warner Bros., 1958) Relying on his own World War I service in the Lafayette Flying Corps, director William A. Wellman also wrote the original story for what became the final film released …
