Out Of The Past Screenings

Hi Everybody,

Steve Ricci, Director of the MIAS program at UCLA, has sent out
a tentative list for the restoration screenings. I have set up
a link on the AMIA website.

The student chapter, Melnitz Movies and the MIAS program are
sponsoring these screenings and it will be a great opportunity
to view some of films that have been restored.

If you want a list of the films please visit that AMIA Student
Chapter website and click on the link on the homepage.

Thanks

"Bride & Prejudice"

I just got back from watching this movie. I kind of loved it. It's a lot of fun and definitely makes you want to go home and break out in song and dance.

http://www.miramax.com/bride/

Also, I wanted to let everyone know about the Marlene Dietrich & Josef Von Sternberg films at the Egyptian.

http://egyptiantheatre.com/archive1999/2005/marlenevonsternberg.htm

Hopefully you can take time out to watch some of there.

The Pan African Film & Arts Festival

The Pan African Film Festival

The Pan African Film & Arts Festival
February 10-21, 2005
Los Angeles Magic Johnson Theatres
Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza

Keepers of the Moving Image

http://www.drapermonologues.com/monologues.html

Opinion Piece : "The Realm of The Unreal: the mystery of Henry Darger"

Directed by Jessica Yu, "The Realm of the Unreal: the mystery of Henry Darger," is a documentary on the life of Henry Darger, a janitor, who also turned out to be an artist and writer. Yu incorporates Darger's writings (from his 15,000 page novel "the Realm of the Unreal" as well as his own autobiography) with animated images of his art work to illustrate Darger's view of himself and the world that he kept at a distance. In one scene, a male voice, representing Darger, describes how he cried when he was a boy because it had stopped snowing, Yu uses one of Darger's art works of a little girl starring out the window watching the snow falling. It has been animated with the girl shown crying as the snow fall begins to stop. Images, such as these, incorporated with narrators reading Darger's words gives the film more emotional power.

Darger was viewed as being innocent, crazy, lonely, and eccentric. Though his neighbors helped him occassionally he remained a mystery to them and to us.

The film is now showing at the Westside Pavilion in West Los Angeles. The run time is 1 hr and 21 min.

http://www.realmsoftheunreal.com/

Lisa Kernan's "Coming Attractions: Reading American Movie Trailers (Texas Film and Media Series) "

Lisa Kernan's new book on Movie Trailers is now available. I still have to pick a copy up but last Thursday, she read excerpts from her book and also discussed the publishing process at Melnitz Rm.1402. The excerpts she read have me intrigued and since she is also an instructor in the MIAS program, I think people show take the time to read it. The methodology she used to approach in the writing of this book is laid out in her introduction. Some of the ideas she spoke of were the role of movie trailers as it pertains to creating choices for the audience and also her use of rhetoric to explain the relationship between movie trailers and the audience. The book is broken down into 3 sections based on chronology as opposed to film genre. The excerpt she read was about the movie "Entrapment" starring Sean Connery and Catherine Zeta-Jones. She mentions how the trailers run on star power and also the underlying relationship between the co-stars and how the superimposing of words and the cuts to specific images of the stars, for example, Ving Rhames, draws the audience in to help with their choice of viewing the film.

If anyone else knows of any other good film studies books please let us know.

"Taking Stock" - January 18th at AMPAS

The SMPTE committee will be having a meeting on Jan.18th at 6:30pm at the Linwood Dunn Theatre of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, titled "Taking Stock - Film emulsions today & tomorrow." They say they will be showing film clips and it would be interesting to see and hear them discuss the historical development of film stocks. For more information visit www.Hsmpte.org or email me at amartino@ucla.edu. I can forward the detailed email to whomever is interested in it. For non-members it will be $10.00.

More details about the Prelinger lecture

Rick Prelinger will be speaking on Thursday, Jan 27th at the GSEIS building at UCLA in Rm.111. It is the annual Lazerow lecture and will be held from 3 - 5pm. Also, if you are not a student you are welcome to attend. Parking is $7.00.

I hope that people make it out.

Mingling...mingling

Mingling...mingling,
originally uploaded by Miss Martini.

Testing how to blog using Flickr...

AMIA SC events

There are a number of events scheduled for the coming quarter. The board had a meeting last night and the minutes will be posted on the AMIA SC website once it has been approved by the board. The big news is that the student chapter meeting will take place on Wednesday, Jan. 19 at 1:30pm. Also, if there are people interested in attending the Rick Prelinger lecture on January 27th please let me know. And if you are interested in posting your thoughts on the blog that would be great.


Aside from that, the quarter is again looking overwhelmingly busy. I am focusing on taking courses in the Information Studies department instead of taking classes in the MIAS program. Hopefully, I will have time to see all of you during the quarter. Good luck with your classes.

"Overlord" Screening Feb.4

Brian suggested that people check out "Overlord" because they
utilize a lot of archival footage. It will be screened at UCLA. Hopefully we
can set up a group to go view this.

Upcoming events

Winter quarter is starting January 6th and I just wanted to let you know about what's happening the next two quarter.

- Brian Drischell and Julie Kessler-Gumpert are working on screenings for Spring Quarter. It will be a joint effort with Melnitz Movies and the AMIA student chapter. If anyone is interested in helping out or have any film suggestions, contact Brian at bdrischell@yahoo.com. There is a link to his email on the AMIA SC website.

- For winter quarter, I am setting up a tour of Pro-Tek Labs. Rick Utley will lead the tour and also tell us about issues in preservation. He is very knowledgable so I hope that you can make it.

- Rick Prelinger will be a guest speaker on Jan.27th at UCLA. It is sponsered by the Center for Evidence.

If anyone has suggestions for fund raisers please let us know.

Flickr

Hi Everybody,

so, I am trying to figure out how to use Flickr and how to utilize this blog. If anyone knows how to tweak this blog to show images from Flickr, would you be able to help me figure it out? let me know...

Anyway, there is a link..since i test posted...so if you want to look at some related and unrelated pictures...click on the flickr link in that last post.

HAPPY NEW YEAR

Flickr

This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.

Flickr

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Another website

http://www.movinghistory.ac.uk/research/types.html

This website even has links to films.

Interesting website

Hi Everybody,

I don't know if you know about this site but you may want to check out:

www.screensite.org

they discuss film, AMIA, and also have links to jobs and all sorts of
good stuff. If anyone finds any interesting website please post them to
the blog. Thanks

Home Movie Day article in the Boston Globe

Hi, for those who are not signed on to the AMIA list serv..Rick Prelinger provided this link to
an article about "Home Movie Day" and new archivists.

http://www.boston.com/ae/movies/articles/2004/12/12/home_
movie_buffs?pg=full

You may have to copy and paste this link because I had to do a hard return after
"home_" so that it did not look weird on this blog.

Enjoy.

Also, I will put a printed copy in the AMIA mailbox for those interested in reading it.

Jan.27, 2005 - Rick Prelinger Lecture

Hi everybody,

Just letting you know about the upcoming lecture series sponsored by the Center for Information as Evidence.

January 27, 2005  ~~ Annual Lazerow Lecture: Rick Prelinger, CD ROM developer, media archaeologist, and film scholar, Prelinger Archives and Prelinger Library.   Co-sponsored by the Center for Information as Evidence, UCLA http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/cie/index.htm and the Los Angeles Chapter of the  American Society for Information Science & Technology (LACASIS) http://public.csusm.edu/lacasis/ - More information on the Lazerow lecture series

Please take the time to attend this lecture.

"To preserve and protect"

There is a small article in the "Hollywood Reporter" that you might be interested in reading. Mark Holmes, the Research Librarian at Fox, pointed it out to me.

Kaufman, Debra. "To preserve and protect," The Hollywood Reporter. p.18-19. November 16-22, 2004.
abstract: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr/search/search_results_taxo.jsp

If anyone wants to read it, I'll put a copy in the AMIA mailbox in the GSEIS lounge.