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Posted by: Cary O’Dell
Concert films make up an element on the LC’s National Film Registry. For example, the legendary “The T.A.M.I. Show,” a legendary, filmed gathering of some amazing rock and roll talent, was added to the Registry in 2006. Maybe another great concert film will make the list this year…. The 25 new selections for the Registry will be announced …
Posted in: Motion Pictures, Musical Theater, National Film Registry
Posted by: Cary O’Dell
The following is a guest post by Jenny Paxson of the Packard Campus. Thursday, October 11 (7:30 p.m.) The Wiz (Universal, 1978) Charlie Smalls’s jazzy, updated version of The Wizard of Oz won seven Tony Awards on Broadway in 1975, and was brought to the screen three years later with Diana Ross taking the lead …
Posted in: Motion Pictures, Musical Theater, National Audio-Visual Conservation Center, Packard Campus Theater
Posted by: Cary O’Dell
The Packard Campus Theater is highlighting contemporary women directors through the end of the year with a series of films from the 1970s to the present. Throughout the 1970s training and mentorship programs for women directors were established, including Women Make Movies (1972), the Women in Film Foundation (1973), the AFI’s Directing Workshop for Women …
Posted in: Jazz, Motion Pictures, Musical Theater, National Audio-Visual Conservation Center, National Film Registry, Packard Campus Theater, Recorded Sound