LGM film club
It's Margaret Mead day at LGM. You all were surprisingly interested in her grave post! So let's close the day with the film she did with her then husband Gregory.
I've expressed my contempt for Norman Mailer before. But I realized I've never watched one of his "movies" that he made in the late 60s and early 70s. So I.
Another recent film I've seen is the 2018 documentary, John McEnroe: In the Realm of Perfection. Directed by Julien Faraut and narrated by the great French actor Mathieu Amalric (possibly.
The other night, I watched Shirley Clarke's weird 1985 documentary about Ornette Coleman. Ornette: Made in America combines the classic documentary form of showing a great musician in performance and.
Criterion Channel is running a program of Les Blank's documentaries. I have seen quite a few of his groundbreaking and wonderful work in the 70s and 80s documenting American folk.
PORTLAND, OR - 1997: Clifford Robinson #3 of the Portland Trail Blazers smiles during a game played in 1997 at the Rose Garden in Portland, Oregon. NOTE TO USER: User.
My professional reading has taken me to Gena Caponi-Tabery's 2003 book Jump for Joy: Jazz, Basketball, and Black Culture in 1930s America. It's literally a history of jumping. An interesting.
Why Husbands Flirt is a recently recovered 1918 film. It was part of the haul of undiscovered film found in New Zealand a few years back. I wouldn't call this.