Things Are Always Going Wrong

Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston

Thursday, February 11, 2010. 7 pm and Sunday, February 14, 2010. 3:30 pm

The Heretics

by Joan Braderman, 2009

“Braderman’s film lifts the veil on the inner workings of the Second Wave of the Women’s Movement. Members of the Heresies Collective—accomplished artists, writers, architects, filmmakers, curators, and teachers now scattered around the globe—speak intimately about the extraordinary times they shared in 1970s Manhattan. See how this group reflects a larger movement that challenged the terms of gender and power, re-writing the lives of generations to follow. Q & A with the filmmaker on February 11.”

http://www.icaboston.org/programs/film/heretics/

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Wisconsin Center for Film & Theater Research

Friday, February 12, 2010. 7:30 p.m.

Things Are Always Going Wrong: New Restorations of Los Angeles Experimental Films (1960s – 1970s)

“Mark Toscano has been preserving avant-garde and experimental film at the Academy Film Archive since 2003. Tonight, he presents a program of works from the Los Angeles avant-garde, with a focus on the fertile decades of the 60s and 70s. Reflexive, witty, and beautiful, these rarely screened films may change the way you see L.A. Films include Thom Andersen and Malcolm Brodwick’s — ——-, Fred Worden’s Throbs, Chris Langdon’s Bondage Boy, Roberta Friedman and Grahame Weinbren’s Bertha’s Children, Bruce Lane’s unc., Dinana Wilson’s Rose for Red, Kathy Rose’s Mirror People, Gary Beydler’s Pasadena Freeway Stills, Worden and Langdon’s Venusville, Morgan Fisher’s Turning Over, Pat O’Neill’s 7362, and David Wilson’s Stasis.”

http://cinema.wisc.edu/series/2010_spring/latreasures.htm#things

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Vanderbilt Television News Archive

ABC Evening News for Thursday, Feb 09, 2006

Headline: Barbie Dolls

“(Studio: Elizabeth Vargas) Report introduced. (New York: Dan Harris) Announcement by Mattel of a dramatic romantic makeover for the Barbie & Ken dolls featured; old TV ads shown; details given about Barbie’s dumping of Ken for another guy doll & of the drop of Barbie sales in the post-Britney Spears era. [Stylist Phillip BLOCH†- shows the two guy dolls, including the new Ken.] ['Toy Wishes' magazine Jim SILVER†- offers analysis.]“

http://tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/tvn-hist-viewevent.pl?RC=817990

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Killers and free music

Museum of Fine Arts (Houston)

Sunday, February 7, 2010. 1pm

Third Ward Blues

by Heather Korb, 1999

“Third Ward Blues celebrates four acclaimed blues guitarists: Albert Collins, Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown, Johnny Clyde Copeland, and Joe “Guitar” Hughes. These musicians — all of whom have passed away since the film was shot in the 1980s – grew up within three blocks of each other in Houston´s Third Ward. Featuring lively performances and entertaining interviews, this film documents a unique aspect of our city´s vibrant cultural history.

This film is part of the Target Free First Sundays: Family Flicks film series.”

http://www.mfah.org/films.asp?par1=1&par2=1&par3=1203&par4=1&par5=1&par6=1&par7=&lgc=6&eid=&currentPage=

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Cinémathèque Québécoise

Friday, February 5, 2010. 7pm

Village People Radio Show (Apa Khabar Orang Kampung)

by Amir Muhammad, 2007

“Dans la jungle thaïlandaise, d’anciens membres du parti communiste malais vivent en exil. Ils racontent leur lutte contre les Britanniques, et l’interdiction du parti qui les a chassés de leur pays. Une pièce de Shakespeare jouée à la radio thaïlandaise locale rythme leurs témoignages, comme un commentaire.”

“A portrait of village life in South Thailand, home of retired Malay-Muslim members of the communist party of neighboring Malaysia. Recollections of the decades-long guerrilla war are interspersed with a Thai radio soap opera.” -IMDb

http://www.cinematheque.qc.ca/programmation/calendriers/projections.html#6

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Filmmuseum Düsseldorf

Friday, February 5, 2010. 8pm

Eureka (Yuriika)

by Shinji Aoyama, 2000

“Nur die Geschwister Kozue und Naoki und der Fahrer Makoto überleben eine Busentführung. Danach ist nichts mehr wie zuvor. Makoto verschwindet spurlos; die beiden Kinder verstummen und verwaisen durch Weggang der Mutter und Tod des Vaters. Als Makoto nach zwei Jahren zurückkehrt und unter Mordverdacht gerät, zieht er zu ihnen, und schließlich begibt man sich mit einem Cousin der Kinder gemeinsam auf eine Reise. Eine in Sepia gehaltene, eindrucksvolle, bildgewaltige Studie über das Weiterleben nach einer traumatischen Erfahrung.”

“Eureka is a drama, set mainly in rural Japan, and is mostly shot in sepia tone. It tells the story of a young boy and girl, Naoki Tamura and Kozue Tamura (Masaru Miyazaki and Aoi Miyazaki, who are real-life siblings) who are on a bus when it is hijacked by a crazed killer. They, along with the bus driver, Makoto Sawai (Koji Yakusho), are the only survivors and flee together. But upon their attempted return to their normal lives, Makoto becomes a suspect in a series of murders and the children become orphaned. These numerous unfortunate events bring the three, along with the orphans’ cousin, Akihiko (Yoichiro Saito), back together, forming a family and working toward reconciliation from the shared hijacking experience.” -Wikipedia

http://www.duesseldorf.de/kultur/filmmuseum/aktuelles/aktu_index.shtml

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Harvard Film Archive

Friday, February 5, 2010. 7pm

Targets

by Peter Bogdanovich, 1968

“Bogdanovich’s debut film features Boris Karloff in a poignant autobiographical cameo as an aging horror film actor contemplating retirement amidst late career humiliations and against the protestations of a young filmmaker, played with boundless enthusiasm by Bogdanovich. Interwoven with their story is a parallel plot of a mysterious serial killer with a rifle and a grim determination to wreck havoc. A brilliantly eccentric tribute to a Hollywood era already fading away, Targets contrasts the silver screen past with the uncertain, distracted future of the television generation embodied by the troubled murderer.”

http://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa/films/2010janmar/bogdanovich.html#targets

Transgression

The Museum of Broadcast Communications

Ernie Kovacs

“Ernie Kovacs, one of the pioneers of early television comedy, was born on Jan. 23, 1919. Watch an episode of his ground-breaking show from 1955.”

http://www.museum.tv/

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National Audiovisual Archive (Finland)

Black History Month launches with:

Tonight, February 2, 2010. 9pm.

SWEET SWEETBACK’S BAADASSSSS SONG

by Melvin Van Peebles, 1971

“Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song on mustan ja riippumattoman elokuvan merkkipaalu. Se on yksi kaikkien aikojen menestyksekkäimmistä riippumattomasti tuotetuista elokuvista, todiste siitä, että elokuvantekijä voi kerätä suuren voiton työskentelemällä kokonaan studiojärjestelmän ulkopuolella. Toisaalta koko “blaxploitation”-elokuvan suuntaus perustuu miltei yksin Sweetbackin menestykseen [...]“

“Melvin Van Peebles wrote, directed, produced, edited, composed and starred in this powerful and inflammatory attack on White America. After the body of a black man is discovered, Sweetback helps two white ‘acquaintances’ in the police force to look good by agreeing to go with them to the station as a suspect. But he is forced to go on the run after brutally attacking the two policemen when they arrest and beat up a young black man.” -IMDb

For more on the series:

http://www.kava.fi/esitykset/kevat-2010/black-history-month

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Schlesinger Library

Wednesday, February 3, 2010. 6pm

Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice

by William Greaves, 1989

Jeannette Rankin, The Woman Who Voted No

by Susan Cohen Regele, 1982

“Along an ‘Activist and Pacifist” theme, we present a discussion about each leader and excerpts from each of the programs. Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice profiles her passionate struggles against lynching and segregation and for women’s rights and suffrage. The program features Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison reading from Wells’ memoirs. Other highlights include commentary by historians and descendants of Wells and archival photographs. Jeannette Rankin, The Woman Who Voted No tells the story of Jeannette Rankin from Montana, who was the first woman elected to Congress and the only member to vote against American entry into both world wars. The film includes interviews with friends, relatives, and historians, as well as original newsreels and photographs.

Followed by a discussion with Marilyn Morgan and Emilyn Brown, Manuscript Catalogers, Schlesinger Library”

http://www.radcliffe.edu/schles/movie_night_2010february.aspx

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