The following is a guest post by Jenny Paxson of the Packard Campus. Thursday, May 30 (7:30 p.m.) Vibrations, 1972 (WNET, 1972) Produced for PBS by WNET, Vibrations was a music magazine program that ran for only one season, (1972-73) and covered a wide assortment of musical genres. The selected segments for this program include …
The following is a guest post by Jenny Paxson of the Packard Campus. Thursday, May 23 (7:30 p.m.) Whitman in Culpeper – followed by Shenandoah (Universal, 1965) For two months in early 1864, poet, essayist, and journalist Walt Whitman (1819-1892) resided in Culpeper, Virginia, while serving as a volunteer nurse in the Army of the …
From the beginning of cinema the behavior of adolescents has been rich fodder for stories that range from celebratory to condemning. No matter the time and place, movie adults are often perplexed, and sometimes angered, by the behavior of movie teens and pre-teens. So this month we’re starting a summer-long series called Kids These Days …
The following is a guest post by Jenny Paxson of the Packard Campus. Thursday, May 16 (7:30 p.m.) Hotel Rwanda (United Artists, 2004) Shown in observance of the 25th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide, which occurred during the spring of 1994, Hotel Rwanda stars Don Cheadle and Sophie Okonedo as hotelier Paul Rusesabagina and his …
Guest post by Ben Model, archivist for Ediad Productions Ernie Kovacs and Edie Adams were artists and innovators in ways that went far beyond the film and TV work they were best known for. Best known for using video effects in his comedy or for his portrayals of Mr. Question Man, the Nairobi Trio and Percy …
The following is a guest post by Jenny Paxson of the Packard Campus. Thursday, May 9 (7:30 p.m.) The Woman in the Window (RKO, 1944) In this psychological thriller, an unassuming college professor (Edward G. Robinson) becomes involved with a beautiful model (Joan Bennett) and finds himself ensnared in a web of blackmail, deception and …
Here are some of the titles from the Library’s motion picture collections–many preserved by the NAVCC film laboratory–that we’re loaning for exhibition this month. As always, we can’t guarantee that schedules won’t change or links get broken, but this is our best information at the time of publication. San Francisco Silent Film Festival; San Francisco, California WOLF …
