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Farber on Film: Introduction, Part 2 (Farber and Negative Space)

18 November 2009 7:42 AM, PST | The Auteurs | See recent The Auteurs news »

Above: Manny Farber, Heiner Muller, and Jean-Luc Godard in California in the 1970s.  Photo by Wim Wenders.

The Farber equation is never simple.  That sentence is a variation on a Samuel Beckett line I've wanted to adapt for an essay, review, biography, even poem, ever since I read the original in college. As the opening sentence to his first book Beckett wrote, "The Proustian equation is never simple," and from the outset I was comforted by the promise of persistent, accelerating, perhaps eternal difficulty and puzzle.  But as over the years I repeated to myself the sentence, "The Proustian equation is never simple," at the blind start of any obstinate piece of writing, I found myself startled by Beckett's conflation of "Proustian" and "equation": his brisk juxtaposition of involuntary memory and the painstaking working through of quantities and variables.

I never found a space for the sentence because the »

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Pillars Of Society – Henry B. Walthall – d: Raoul Walsh

29 October 2009 10:29 PM, PDT | Alternative Film Guide | See recent Alternative Film Guide news »

Pillars of Society (1916) Direction: Raoul Walsh Screenplay: From a novel by Henrik Ibsen Cast: Henry B. Walthall, Mary Alden, Juanita Archer, George Beranger, Josephine Crowell, Olga Grey   Pillars of Society is a film about hypocrisy, having its basis on a story by Ibsen. The Birth of a Nation hero Henry B. Walthall (right) plays the son of a Norwegian shipping company; in his youth, he goes to Paris to study and has an affair with a married Bohemian actress. However, his brother-in-law is falsely accused of having said affair with the actress; he protects Walthall by accepting the blame and leaving for America. Years later, the brother-in-law returns and demands that Walthall clear his name. Fearing that if the [...] »

- James Bazen

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Films From A Singular Vision

12 August 2009 10:49 PM, PDT | NYPost.com | See recent New York Post news »

Call it the invasion of the one-eyed auteurs.

In a clever bit of programming, Anthology Film Archives in the East Village is mounting a retrospective of movies by directors who, for one reason or another, had lost sight in one eye.

The series features two films each by five helmers wearing eye patches: John Ford, Nicholas Ray, Fritz Lang, Raoul Walsh and Andre de Toth.

"After many years of studying classical Hollywood cinema of the 1940s-'50s, »

- By V.A. MUSETTO

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Fall Preview: Repertory Calendar

5 August 2009 11:17 AM, PDT | ifc.com | See recent IFC news »

Joe Dante presenting "The Movie Orgy" in L.A., a rare stateside appearance of Japanese auteur Hirokazu Kore-eda for a retrospective in New York and the Fantastic Fest in Austin are just a few of the events that serve as the perfect antidote for the endless stream of summertime sequels and toy-based franchises.

More Fall Preview: [Theatrical Calendar]

[Anywhere But a Movie Theater]

[Breakout Performances]

92Y Tribeca

While the 92Y Tribeca is taking a well-deserved break in August, the cinema space comes roaring back in September, beginning with hosting the Fifth Annual NYC Shorts Festival (Sept. 10-13), followed by a late night "Labyrinth" sing-along complete with trivia and a costume contest (Sept. 25-26), and a Michael Winterbottom double bill of "Code 46" and "24 Hour Party People" (Sept. 30)...In October, the 92Y Tribeca will premiere "Zombie Girl: The Movie" (Oct. 2), the doc about 12-year-old filmmaker Emily Hagins and her quest to make a zombie movie, followed by hosting the Iron »

- Stephen Saito

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Pros And Cons

3 May 2009 12:22 AM, PDT | NYPost.com | See recent New York Post news »

'Made it, Ma! Top of the world!" With these words, mama's boy Arthur Cody Jarrett (James Cagney) is blown to smithereens in Raoul Walsh's blistering "White Heat" (1949).

The film includes two other standout scenes: Jarrett going bonkers in the prison mess hall when he learns his beloved mom has died, and an obliging Jarrett riddling a car trunk with bullets when a prisoner inside pleads for air.

"White Heat" unreels May 10 (Mother's Day!) and 11 as part of Film Forum's new series, »

- By V.A. MUSETTO

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David Chase Returns to HBO for New Miniseries

16 March 2009 10:27 PM, PDT | TheMovingPicture.net | See recent TheMovingPicture news »

Sopranos mastermind David Chase is returning to HBO for a new miniseries about the evolution of the Hollywood film industry during the past century. He’s developing the project with Sopranos executive producer Brad Grey. The series will be titled A Ribbon of Dreams, after Orson Welles' quote, "A film is a ribbon of dreams." Chase is writing the project and will executive produce with Grey. The mini starts off in 1913 and will follow two men -- a college-educated mechanical engineer and a cowboy with a violent past -- who form an unlikely producing partnership. The duo begin as employees of D.W. Griffith, then cross career paths with such Hollywood greats as John Ford, John Wayne, Raoul Walsh, Bette Davis and Billy Wilder. Through the eyes of the two main characters, as well as their children and successors, the mini will chronicle the growth of the film industry from »

- James Cook

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HBO Sign 'The Sopranos' Creator for a New Mini-Series

16 March 2009 8:15 PM, PDT | Aceshowbiz | See recent Aceshowbiz news »

Having a household name after belting "The Sopranos", creator David Chase is lauded to return to TV shows by penning a brand new one. HBO were the one anticipating it by signing Chase to write and produce a mini-series called "Ribbon of Dreams" that would focus on Hollywood movie-making history from early 20th Century to the present day.

"We couldn't be more excited to be back in business with the master," said Richard Plepler, an HBO co-president. Chase who will direct the first episode of the mini, in return said "It gives me pleasure to think of working, together with Brad (Grey), with HBO again. These are all people who, obviously, occupy a special place in my heart."

Kicked off in 1913, two fictional characters, a cowboy with a violent past and a college-educated mechanical engineer, will appear working for famous filmmaker D.W. Griffith. They then bond an unlikely partnership that »

- AceShowbiz.com

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'Sopranos' creator back in business with HBO

16 March 2009 10:50 AM, PDT | The Watcher | See recent The Watcher news »

David Chase, the creator of "The Sopranos," is back in business with HBO. Not with a "Sopranos"-related project, but with "Ribbon of Dreams," a miniseries about the invention of cinema and the growth of Hollywood. The project, which doesn't have a release date yet, will follow two characters, a college-educated engineer and a cowboy with a violent past as they work together to produce films at the dawn of the motion-picture industry. "The miniseries will follow the two main characters as they begin as employees of D.W. Griffith, and then cross career paths with John Ford, John Wayne, Raoul Walsh,... »

- Tempo

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