In December 1966, the Canyon Cinema Cooperative in San Francisco, California published their first Catalogue of experimental and avant-garde films to rent. This was four years after the Film-Makers’ Cooperative had begun distributing underground films in New York City.
Canyon first listed films to rent in the November ’66 edition of their News newsletter, then published the catalog separately one month later. In the book Canyon Cinema, Scott MacDonald notes that the News listed just 31 filmmakers with films. Only six of them had multiple films listed; while the rest listed just a single film each.
The first standalone catalogue expanded on that first listing of filmmakers, but is still a modest publication at just sixteen pages, plus the covers. The catalogue includes 45 filmmakers — some are listed as pairs — and many more filmmakers have multiple films listed. For example, Larry Jordan has eight films listed, Robert Nelson six and Bruce Baillie four.
There...
Canyon first listed films to rent in the November ’66 edition of their News newsletter, then published the catalog separately one month later. In the book Canyon Cinema, Scott MacDonald notes that the News listed just 31 filmmakers with films. Only six of them had multiple films listed; while the rest listed just a single film each.
The first standalone catalogue expanded on that first listing of filmmakers, but is still a modest publication at just sixteen pages, plus the covers. The catalogue includes 45 filmmakers — some are listed as pairs — and many more filmmakers have multiple films listed. For example, Larry Jordan has eight films listed, Robert Nelson six and Bruce Baillie four.
There...
- 5/6/2018
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Today's roundup on current goings on features a tribute to the work of the "King of Video Essays" (New York Times), Kevin B. Lee in Vienna, plus Stateside events: Wim Wenders's Wrong Move, Chantal Akerman's Là-bas, Lazar Stojanović’s Plastic Jesus, and disparate series devoted to the work of Andrew Noren, Gabriel Mascaro, Vincent Lindon, Saul Levine and Xie Jin. There's also Indian cinema in Austin, Palestinian work in Chicago and a video interview with Joseph Frank, co-director of Sweaty Betty. » - David Hudson...
- 4/15/2016
- Keyframe
Today's roundup on current goings on features a tribute to the work of the "King of Video Essays" (New York Times), Kevin B. Lee in Vienna, plus Stateside events: Wim Wenders's Wrong Move, Chantal Akerman's Là-bas, Lazar Stojanović’s Plastic Jesus, and disparate series devoted to the work of Andrew Noren, Gabriel Mascaro, Vincent Lindon, Saul Levine and Xie Jin. There's also Indian cinema in Austin, Palestinian work in Chicago and a video interview with Joseph Frank, co-director of Sweaty Betty. » - David Hudson...
- 4/15/2016
- Fandor: Keyframe
Since any New York cinephile has a nearly suffocating wealth of theatrical options, we figured it’d be best to compile some of the more worthwhile repertory showings into one handy list. Displayed below are a few of the city’s most reliable theaters and links to screenings of their weekend offerings — films you’re not likely to see in a theater again anytime soon, and many of which are, also, on 35mm. If you have a chance to attend any of these, we’re of the mind that it’s time extremely well-spent.
BAMcinématek
“Chantal Akerman: Images Between the Images” continues with Night and Day on Friday, News from Home this Saturday, and, on Sunday, Golden Eighties and The Meetings of Anna.
Metrograph
“Welcome to Metrograph: A to Z” offers The Eight-Diagram Pole Fighter on Friday, Deux Fois on Saturday, and, this Sunday, three short films by Julie Dash.
BAMcinématek
“Chantal Akerman: Images Between the Images” continues with Night and Day on Friday, News from Home this Saturday, and, on Sunday, Golden Eighties and The Meetings of Anna.
Metrograph
“Welcome to Metrograph: A to Z” offers The Eight-Diagram Pole Fighter on Friday, Deux Fois on Saturday, and, this Sunday, three short films by Julie Dash.
- 4/15/2016
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
Photo by Sophie BeeIn the display window of a used record store, you can see covers for albums that don’t exist. They bear titles like Flaming Creatures or Heaven and Earth Magic, familiar to aficionados of experimental film, alongside lurid designs by local artist Tom Carey. This exhibit can mean only one thing: the film festival has come to Ann Arbor. Just down the block is the Michigan Theater, which has been operating since 1928. For one week every spring, its spacious main auditorium and cozy screening room host an intimidating array of avant-garde programming. The selections are eclectic in subject matter, submitted from all over the world, and interspersed with recently restored prints of older works. This practice means that no presentation is predictable. The only constant that carries across the festival is the artists’ collective push against the traditional boundaries of their medium.An example of this ethos...
- 4/8/2016
- by Alice Stoehr
- MUBI
"With a career spanning over 170 films, Michel Piccoli is one of the finest, most versatile actors in cinema," writes Craig Williams at the top of an annotated list for the BFI of "10 essential performances" in films by Jean-Luc Godard, Alfred Hitchcock, Jacques Rivette, Luis Buñuel, Alain Resnais, Claude Chabrol, Agnès Varda, Leos Carax, Claude Sautet and Nanni Moretti. Also in today's roundup: Book reviews (Wong Kar-wai, Groucho Marx, Debbie Reynolds), remembrances (George Clayton Johnson, Andrew Noren, Noboru Ando), more best-of-2015 lists and a terrific appreciation of Todd Haynes's Carol. » - David Hudson...
- 12/27/2015
- Keyframe
"With a career spanning over 170 films, Michel Piccoli is one of the finest, most versatile actors in cinema," writes Craig Williams at the top of an annotated list for the BFI of "10 essential performances" in films by Jean-Luc Godard, Alfred Hitchcock, Jacques Rivette, Luis Buñuel, Alain Resnais, Claude Chabrol, Agnès Varda, Leos Carax, Claude Sautet and Nanni Moretti. Also in today's roundup: Book reviews (Wong Kar-wai, Groucho Marx, Debbie Reynolds), remembrances (George Clayton Johnson, Andrew Noren, Noboru Ando), more best-of-2015 lists and a terrific appreciation of Todd Haynes's Carol. » - David Hudson...
- 12/27/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
New York's Museum of the Moving Image has announced the lineup for the fifth edition of its annual First Look Festival, running from January 8 through 24 and featuring a slew of Us and NYC premieres. Opening with Aleksandr Sokurov’s Francofonia, highlights also include Manuel Mozos’s portrait of João Bénard da Costa, the late director of the Portuguese Film Museum; a playful autobiographical work by the French film critic and filmmaker Louis Skorecki; and a duo of intimate behind-the-scenes films about Jim Jarmusch. Plus films by Margaret Honda, Ken Jacobs, Bjoern Kammerer, and the late Andrew Noren; and formally innovative films such as Jonathan Perel’s structuralist study of oppressive Argentine architecture, and Dominic Gagnon's gonzo YouTube assemblages. » - David Hudson...
- 12/5/2015
- Keyframe
New York's Museum of the Moving Image has announced the lineup for the fifth edition of its annual First Look Festival, running from January 8 through 24 and featuring a slew of Us and NYC premieres. Opening with Aleksandr Sokurov’s Francofonia, highlights also include Manuel Mozos’s portrait of João Bénard da Costa, the late director of the Portuguese Film Museum; a playful autobiographical work by the French film critic and filmmaker Louis Skorecki; and a duo of intimate behind-the-scenes films about Jim Jarmusch. Plus films by Margaret Honda, Ken Jacobs, Bjoern Kammerer, and the late Andrew Noren; and formally innovative films such as Jonathan Perel’s structuralist study of oppressive Argentine architecture, and Dominic Gagnon's gonzo YouTube assemblages. » - David Hudson...
- 12/5/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
Above: Griffith's Intolerance.
In New York, Bam, Film Forum, and Anthology Film Archives are playing forgotten masterworks, unavailable on DVD, in pristine prints: this past week has surfaced prints of Elia Kazan’s America, America at Film Forum, Douglas Sirk’s A Time to Love and a Time to Die and André De Toth’s Man in the Saddle, Norman Rockwell with guns, at Bam, and an entire retrospective to Ulrike Ottinger at Anthology, where upcoming are long overdue retros of Roger Corman and Jerry Lewis. In most cases, it’s been decades since these films have been shown in New York.
Meanwhile, MoMA slugs on with deliberately disposable movies designed to draw families and indie teens who have already seen them: a Spike Jonze retro of his music videos and films; an upcoming Tim Burton retro the museum’s been working on for years; a just-completed “Recent Film Acquisitions...
In New York, Bam, Film Forum, and Anthology Film Archives are playing forgotten masterworks, unavailable on DVD, in pristine prints: this past week has surfaced prints of Elia Kazan’s America, America at Film Forum, Douglas Sirk’s A Time to Love and a Time to Die and André De Toth’s Man in the Saddle, Norman Rockwell with guns, at Bam, and an entire retrospective to Ulrike Ottinger at Anthology, where upcoming are long overdue retros of Roger Corman and Jerry Lewis. In most cases, it’s been decades since these films have been shown in New York.
Meanwhile, MoMA slugs on with deliberately disposable movies designed to draw families and indie teens who have already seen them: a Spike Jonze retro of his music videos and films; an upcoming Tim Burton retro the museum’s been working on for years; a just-completed “Recent Film Acquisitions...
- 10/24/2009
- MUBI
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