OVID.tv Announces New Titles Added to Streaming Platform
New streaming platform OVID.tv begins the roll out of it's robust collection of films not widely known, with six new selections from a canon of historical films and masterpieces curated from this collaborative streaming platform led by eight leading U.S. independent distribution companies.
Women Make Movies and dGenerate Films Join OVID.tv
Jonathan Miller announced today that two additional independent film distribution companies have agreed to join OVID.tv as founding content partners, along with the six (see below) first announced on January 17th.
Dallas Museum of Art Looks at The Art of Film Through Fresh Eyes
On October 22, the Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) presents the first major exhibition in the Museum's history dedicated to time-based media. Truth: 24 frames per second brings together 24 pioneers of film and video and over six decades of work focused on pressing contemporary themes, such as race relations, political unrest, sexual identity and the media, to explore the nature of truth and reality in contemporary life.
UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive to Open New Building 1/31
The University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) is renowned internationally as one of the best venues for experiencing historical and contemporary world cinema. When BAMPFA opens its new downtown Berkeley building designed by Diller, Scofidio + Renfro to the public on January 31, 2016, filmgoers will be treated to more of the stellar film programming they've come to expect, as well as vastly improved facilities for experiencing and studying the moving image. In its inaugural year, BAMPFA will expand the number of film screenings it presents, hosting programs 52 weeks per year, offering more film programming for K–12 students and lifelong learners, and introducing some limited engagements of selected films. BAMPFA patrons will enjoy two state-of-the-art film theaters (232 and 33 seats, respectively), an exterior LED screen for occasional outdoor screenings, and easier accessibility to the well-appointed Film Library and Study Center, galleries, store, and cafe.
UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive to Open New Building, 1/16
The University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) is renowned internationally as one of the best venues for experiencing historical and contemporary world cinema. When BAMPFA opens its new downtown Berkeley building designed by Diller, Scofidio + Renfro to the public on January 31, 2016, filmgoers will be treated to more of the stellar film programming they've come to expect, as well as vastly improved facilities for experiencing and studying the moving image. In its inaugural year, BAMPFA will expand the number of film screenings it presents, hosting programs 52 weeks per year, offering more film programming for K–12 students and lifelong learners, and introducing some limited engagements of selected films. BAMPFA patrons will enjoy two state-of-the-art film theaters (232 and 33 seats, respectively), an exterior LED screen for occasional outdoor screenings, and easier accessibility to the well-appointed Film Library and Study Center, galleries, store, and cafe.
FSLC to Celebrate Pedro Costa with 'LET US NOW PRAISE FAMOUS MEN', 7/17-23
The Film Society of Lincoln Center announced today Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: The Films of Pedro Costa, from July 17-23. The series precedes the opening of the Portuguese auteur's long-awaited, "hauntingly beautiful" (Variety) new film, Horse Money, which played last fall at the 52nd New York Film Festival and opens theatrically at the Film Society on July 18.
The Reina Sofia Museum Presents REALLY USEFUL KNOWLEDGE
The notion of 'really useful knowledge' was originated from the workers' awareness of the need for self-education in the early 19th century. In the 1820s and 1830s, workers' organizations in United Kingdom introduced this phrase to describe 'unpractical' knowledge like politics, economics and philosophy, as opposed to what factory owners proclaimed to be “useful knowledge”. Some time earlier capitalists began investing in advancement of their businesses through funding the education of workers in 'applicable' skills and disciplines such as engineering, physics, chemistry or math.
Film Society of Lincoln Center Announces Details for 'Fassbinder: Romantic Anarchist'
The Film Society of Lincoln Center announced today the details for Fassbinder: Romantic Anarchist (Part 1), May 16 - June 1. Divided into two parts, the retrospective will be the most extensive presentation of Fassbinder's films in New York since 1997, with Part 1 including almost all of his work leading up to 1974 and Part 2 (screening in November) to pick up from 1974 through 1982. The ambitious two-part series will include all of his theatrical features, much of his television work, films he starred in, films that influenced him, and films that were influenced by his work.
Sala Leopoldo Lugones - DOCBSAS/13
Del jueves 17 al sabado 26 de octubre de 2013 la Ciudad de Buenos Aires sera el escenario de la trigesima edicion de la Muestra Internacional de Cine Documental DocBuenosAires, donde se veran las mejores producciones nacionales e internacionales del cine documental de creacion.
Sala Leopoldo Lugones - DOCBSAS/13
Del jueves 17 al sabado 26 de octubre de 2013 la Ciudad de Buenos Aires sera el escenario de la trigesima edicion de la Muestra Internacional de Cine Documental DocBuenosAires, donde se veran las mejores producciones nacionales e internacionales del cine documental de creacion.
Sala Leopoldo Lugones - DOCBSAS/13
Del jueves 17 al sabado 26 de octubre de 2013 la Ciudad de Buenos Aires sera el escenario de la trigesima edicion de la Muestra Internacional de Cine Documental DocBuenosAires, donde se veran las mejores producciones nacionales e internacionales del cine documental de creacion.
MOSES AND ARRON Concludes Opera Matters Program On 1/25
Cinematic Opera/Operatic Cinema: Reflections on the Merging of Media, a collaboration between New York City Opera and the Film Society of Lincoln Center that is part of City Opera's Opera Matters program, will be concluded on January 25th with screening of Moses and Aaron.