On Jan. 29, 1964, a triple premiere — in New York, London and Toronto — launched one of Stanley Kubrick’s signature masterpieces into the chilly Cold War atmosphere: Dr. Strangelove, with the marquee-challenging subtitle Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. Kubrick described it as a “nightmare comedy.” Sixty years later, the comedy still works, but the immediacy of the nightmare may be missed.
Shot in Shepperton Studios outside of London from February through November 1963, Dr. Strangelove was conceived and realized in the shadow of a real-life nightmare scenario that no one laughed at: the Cuban Missile Crisis, which unfolded over 13 terrifying days in October 1962.
On Oct. 14, 1962, a U-2 spy plane detected facilities for the launching of nuclear ballistic missiles from Cuba, a Soviet client state since 1959. President John F. Kennedy convened an executive committee of the National Security Council to consider options. The consensus from the Joint Chiefs...
Shot in Shepperton Studios outside of London from February through November 1963, Dr. Strangelove was conceived and realized in the shadow of a real-life nightmare scenario that no one laughed at: the Cuban Missile Crisis, which unfolded over 13 terrifying days in October 1962.
On Oct. 14, 1962, a U-2 spy plane detected facilities for the launching of nuclear ballistic missiles from Cuba, a Soviet client state since 1959. President John F. Kennedy convened an executive committee of the National Security Council to consider options. The consensus from the Joint Chiefs...
- 1/29/2024
- by Thomas Doherty
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
With Georges Méliès as its subject, Martin Scorsese's Hugo – up for 11 Oscars – is a film that gives meaning to the cliché 'the magic of the movies'
Should you stay up for the Oscars, here's a surefire way to be hammered by the end: pour yourself a drink each time you hear the word "magic", and you'll be watching the winner's tearful acceptance speech in an alcoholic haze.
Is there a phrase more hackneyed than "the magic of the movies"? From the moment of their invention at the end of the 19th century, motion pictures have been perceived as simultaneously hyper natural and supernatural. The first films of the Lumiére brothers were simple recordings ("actualities") that established the photographic basis of the medium; those produced by the stage magician Georges Méliès, the subject of Martin Scorsese's impressive 3D spectacle Hugo, were fantastic and predicated on special effects – namely stop-motion,...
Should you stay up for the Oscars, here's a surefire way to be hammered by the end: pour yourself a drink each time you hear the word "magic", and you'll be watching the winner's tearful acceptance speech in an alcoholic haze.
Is there a phrase more hackneyed than "the magic of the movies"? From the moment of their invention at the end of the 19th century, motion pictures have been perceived as simultaneously hyper natural and supernatural. The first films of the Lumiére brothers were simple recordings ("actualities") that established the photographic basis of the medium; those produced by the stage magician Georges Méliès, the subject of Martin Scorsese's impressive 3D spectacle Hugo, were fantastic and predicated on special effects – namely stop-motion,...
- 2/25/2012
- by J Hoberman
- The Guardian - Film News
I was just notified by California Newsreel that, in recognition of the death of Martin Luther King Jr, which happened on this day in 1968, the Award-winning film, At the River I Stand, which chronicles the 1968 Afscme (American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees) sanitation workers’ strike in Memphis, leading up to eventual assassination of Mlk, will be available to watch for free, online for just this week.
The film, produced by David Appleby, Allison Graham and Steven Ross, was awarded the 1994 Erik Barnouw Award for Best Documentary, by the Organization of American Historians.
“The struggle and triumph of dignity over injustice is the luminous tapestry of all great social movements… At the River I Stand’ is an inspiring visual testament and a call to witness to every viewer,” said Afscme president Gerald W. McEntee. “‘
The 58-minute documentary can be viewed in full from today, through the 11th, next week Monday.
The film, produced by David Appleby, Allison Graham and Steven Ross, was awarded the 1994 Erik Barnouw Award for Best Documentary, by the Organization of American Historians.
“The struggle and triumph of dignity over injustice is the luminous tapestry of all great social movements… At the River I Stand’ is an inspiring visual testament and a call to witness to every viewer,” said Afscme president Gerald W. McEntee. “‘
The 58-minute documentary can be viewed in full from today, through the 11th, next week Monday.
- 4/4/2011
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
Above: Mika Rottenberg’s Cheese. Photo by Galerie Laurent Godin.
This is the first of two reports on the 56th Robert Flaherty Seminar.
Since 1955 The Robert Flaherty Seminar has gathered influential filmmakers, critics, academics and programmers to hash out the aesthetic and political possibilities of the documentary. This year I joined them in packing the dorm rooms of Colgate University, subject to ominous-smelling shared bathrooms and dissipated coffee, but trusting that the curatorial acumen of guest programmer Dennis Lim, and his chosen theme of “Work,” would make it all worthwhile. The coverage of the fest is split into two parts. I’m taking the first half of the seminar, and Leo Goldsmith the second.
Started by Robert Flaherty’s indomitable wife Frances soon after the director’s death, the seminar ascribes by “The Flaherty Way,” which is repeatedly defined by the gregarious (and engagingly cult-like) staff as “non-preconception.” From the beginning,...
This is the first of two reports on the 56th Robert Flaherty Seminar.
Since 1955 The Robert Flaherty Seminar has gathered influential filmmakers, critics, academics and programmers to hash out the aesthetic and political possibilities of the documentary. This year I joined them in packing the dorm rooms of Colgate University, subject to ominous-smelling shared bathrooms and dissipated coffee, but trusting that the curatorial acumen of guest programmer Dennis Lim, and his chosen theme of “Work,” would make it all worthwhile. The coverage of the fest is split into two parts. I’m taking the first half of the seminar, and Leo Goldsmith the second.
Started by Robert Flaherty’s indomitable wife Frances soon after the director’s death, the seminar ascribes by “The Flaherty Way,” which is repeatedly defined by the gregarious (and engagingly cult-like) staff as “non-preconception.” From the beginning,...
- 7/21/2010
- MUBI
University of Florida's documentary film program, named one of the top 10 in the country by Independent Magazine, is moving to Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, N.C.
Documentary filmmaker Sandra Dickson will make the move with the film program after co-directing it at University of Florida for 12 years. Wake Forest associate professor of communication Mary Dalton will be co-director.
The program, previously known as the Documentary Film Institute at the University of Florida has turned out various student films aired on public television and cable networks. Documentary Film Institute students have received Emmy's for their work and gone on to work for National Geographic, PBS and top-level documentary production houses.
Dickson has written and co-directed eight television documentaries, and won the 2006 Erik Barnouw Award for co-directing "Negroes With Guns: Rob Williams and Black Power."
Dalton has produced several documentaries and teaches courses on film and television. Cindy Hill and Cara Pilson,...
Documentary filmmaker Sandra Dickson will make the move with the film program after co-directing it at University of Florida for 12 years. Wake Forest associate professor of communication Mary Dalton will be co-director.
The program, previously known as the Documentary Film Institute at the University of Florida has turned out various student films aired on public television and cable networks. Documentary Film Institute students have received Emmy's for their work and gone on to work for National Geographic, PBS and top-level documentary production houses.
Dickson has written and co-directed eight television documentaries, and won the 2006 Erik Barnouw Award for co-directing "Negroes With Guns: Rob Williams and Black Power."
Dalton has produced several documentaries and teaches courses on film and television. Cindy Hill and Cara Pilson,...
- 9/17/2009
- by By Lisa Risting
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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