The following was co-written with Jenny Paxson, an Administrative Assistant at the Packard Campus. Thursday, April 30 (7:30 p.m.) All That Heaven Allows (Universal, 1955) Widow Jane Wyman falls in love with a younger man (Rock Hudson) in a suburban New England town, resulting in an avalanche of public and private shaming. From this deceptively …
My stint as guest programmer continues with a film made in my hometown of Baton Rouge, my favorite Alfred Hitchcock movie, and a rather jaundiced view of professional football. Thursday, April 23 (7:30 pm) sex, lies, and videotape (Miramax, 1989, *R-rated) It’s a matter of conjecture to pinpoint the beginnings of the American independent film …
Thursday, April 16 (7:30 pm) Les Blank Double Feature: Hot Pepper (1973) / Always for Pleasure (1978) Documentarian Les Blank (1935-2013) might have been born in Florida, but he had a Louisiana soul. Tonight’s double feature is all the evidence you need. Hot Pepper celebrates the music of Clifton Chenier, the “King of Zydeco,” while …
I am guest programmer for April, and this week features the most recent film by my favorite director working today, another representing the great flowering of American cinema in the 1970s when I really fell in love with the movies, and the first silent film I ever saw, the one that set me on my …
Last November we hosted a visit from Heather Linville, a film preservationist at the Academy Film Archive in Hollywood; the AFA is part of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which is better known as the organization responsible for awarding Oscars. Heather had been processing a collection of nitrate film donated to the …
The following is a guest post by Jenny Paxson, an Administrative Assistant at the Packard Campus. Thursday, March 26 (7:30 p.m.) The Catered Affair (MGM, 1956) Bette Davis stars as Agnes Hurley, the wife of a Bronx taxi driver (Ernest Borgnine) who wants to give her daughter Jane an elaborate wedding, despite the fact that …
The following is a guest post by Jenny Paxson, an Administrative Assistant at the Packard Campus. Thursday, March 19 (7:30 p.m.) Public Broadcast Laboratory (1967-1968) Public Broadcast Laboratory (PBL) was the first regularly scheduled educational television program aired nationwide, shown on National Educational Television (NET) stations. It premiered in 1967, offering incisive reporting, examinations of …
The following is a guest post by Kelly Chisholm, a Processing Technician in the Moving Image Section. Back in December, I posted an entry about three versions of a film I found in the J. Fred MacDonald Collection; today, I return with a story about another film from that collection to illustrate a little more …
The following is a guest post by Jenny Paxson, an Administrative Assistant at the Packard Campus. Thursday, March 12 (7:30 p.m.) The Girl Next Door (20th Century-Fox, 1953) When widowed cartoonist Bill Carter (Dan Dailey) falls in love with his beautiful new neighbor, Broadway star Jeannie Laird (June Haver), it causes a rift with his …
