Donald Krim
My time with James Card
The following was my 2012 James Card Memorial Lecture given tonight at the George Eastman House's Dryden Theatre. It is an annual tribute to James ...
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Academy Film Archive
Restoring a PORTRAIT, with some help from our friends...
When Dennis and I started Milestone back in 1990, we approached the enterprise with all the naivete of ingenues in a 1930s movie. You know, one ...
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Amy Heller
New York Times on Shirley Clarke
NEW YORK TIMES April 27, 2012 Woman With a Lens, Restored By MANOHLA DARGIS DANCER, bride, runaway wife, radical filmmaker and pioneer — Shirl...
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Army
Let there Be Light
A couple of years ago, we had a phone call from our friend at Turner Classic Movies. He had just read a biography of the Huston family and was enth...
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Centennial AME Zion Church
Living with history
"History cannot give us a program for the future, but it can give us a fuller understanding of ourselves, and of our common humanity, so that we ca...
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Thoughts on a career in film (first published in November 2011)
Coming home after Ohio University (and leaving as head of its film society) in 1983, I found myself working in cigarette sales in Irvington, New ...
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Bruce Ricker (first published on May 21, 2011)
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/19/arts/music/bruce-ricker-filmmaker-with-affinity-for-jazz-dies-at-68.html?_r=1 [Note: this blog was first publ...
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Don Krim
Don Krim (first published on May 21, 2011)
[Note: this blog was first published on May 21, 2011] Don Krim, longtime owner of Kino International, died this morning. He had been dealing ...
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Amy Heller
Those dreaded THREE-letter words…(first published February 7, 2011)
We all know the four-letter words we are supposed to eschew—the “s” word, the “f” word and for some, perhaps the “l” word. But all of those are...
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chelsea hotel
You meet all the best people At the Chelsea (first published January 21, 2011)
These days, with Lionel Rogosin’s On the Bowery opening around the country (in LA at the Nuart and in Portland, OR at the Cinema 21 on Friday ...
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Why I Love My Job (most of the time) and How I Got Here (first published January 16, 2011)
When I was a mere youth, back in the 1970s (and early 1980s—I matured rather slowly), I struggled to imagine a career for myself. I had jobs, su...
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