On January 24, 2019
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Tessa Morefield
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Various stills from ‘Walden: Diaries, Notes, and Sketches’ by Jonas Mekas R.I.P. to the extremely influential underground filmmaker, director, critic, archivist and poet: Jonas Mekas (1922-2019). Co-founder of the Anthology Film Archives, the Lithuanian-born artist led a prolific life, directing dozens of movies and publishing over 20 books, and is considered by many to not onl... ... read more -
From the official Cinefantastique website:"During a decade when many mainstream critics were dismissing THE EXORICST as sadistic pornography, and when Forest J Ackerman was filling Famous Monsters with puny puns (e.g., A Clockwork Lemon, referring to a malfunctioning robot in FUTURE WORLD), publisher-editor Frederick S. Clarke created a little magazine with a big ambition: to cover the genre bette... ... read more -
Film majors, and general film enthusiasts, should know about a wonderful series, Conversations with Filmmakers, that the library has added recently to its book collection. Each volume in this series, published by the University Press of Mississippi, includes the collected interviews of a major modern director. The library owns over 30 titles, including those on Pedro Almodovar, Robert Altman, Jane... ... read more