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Ross Lipman
Ross Lipman is an American restorationist, independent filmmaker and essayist. He is best known for his 2015 documentary ''Notfilm (film), Notfilm,'' his work with the Bruce Conner Family Trust and as Senior Film Restorationist at the UCLA Film & Television Archive, where he restored numerous independent and avant-garde works. Lipman was the 2008 recipient of Anthology Film Archives' Preservation Honors, and is a three-time winner of the National Society of Film Critics' Heritage Award. Lipman's essays on film history, technology, and aesthetics have been published in ''Artforum'', ''Sight and Sound'', and in numerous academic books and journals and his films have been screened internationally and have been collected by museums and archives. His 2015 feature-length documentary ''Notfilm'' about Samuel Beckett's ''Film (film), Film'' was produced and distributed by Milestone Films and premiered at the BFI London Film Festival. The documentary was prompted by the discovery of long ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Notfilm (film)
''Notfilm'' is a 2015 feature-length documentary, directed by Ross Lipman on the production of playwright Samuel Beckett's only film, an experimental short titled ''Film'' starring Buster Keaton. While conducting preliminary research to restore ''Film'', filmmaker and restorationist Ross Lipman visited Grove Press founder and ''Film'' producer Barney Rosset at his apartment, where Lipman discovered reels of film and audio. This material contained outtakes from Beckett's 1965 production, including a prologue long-thought lost. ''Notfilm'' reconstructs this prologue and integrates rare audio of Beckett's voice, surreptitiously recorded by Rosset, in a self-described "Kino Essay" that analyzes the philosophical foundation of ''Film'', arguing it was an expression of Samuel Beckett's own distaste for the public eye. Synopsis Both a traditional making-of documentary and an essayistic exploration into the philosophical implications of Samuel Beckett's ''Film'', ''Notfilm'' outlines th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Squatter
Squatting is the action of occupying an abandoned or unoccupied area of land or a building, usually residential, that the squatter does not own, rent or otherwise have lawful permission to use. The United Nations estimated in 2003 that there were one billion slum residents and squatters globally. Squatting occurs worldwide and tends to occur when people who are poor and homeless find empty buildings or land to occupy for housing. It has a long history, broken down by country below. In developing countries and least developed countries, shanty towns often begin as squatted settlements. In African cities such as Lagos much of the population lives in slums. There are pavement dwellers in India and in Hong Kong as well as rooftop slums. Informal settlements in Latin America are known by names such as villa miseria (Argentina), pueblos jóvenes (Peru) and asentamientos irregulares (Guatemala, Uruguay). In Brazil, there are favelas in the major cities and land-based movements. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Come Back To The Five And Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (film)
''Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean'' is a 1982 comedy-drama film and an adaptation of Ed Graczyk's 1976 play. The Broadway and screen versions were directed by Robert Altman, and stars Sandy Dennis, Cher, Mark Patton, Karen Black, Sudie Bond, and Kathy Bates. As with the original play, the film takes place inside a small Woolworth's five-and-dime store in a small Texas town, where an all-female fan club for actor James Dean reunites in 1975. According to a 2014 interview with playwright Ed Graczyk the setting of the play is actually an H. L. Kressmont & Co. Five and Dime. Through a series of flashbacks, the six members also reveal secrets dating back to 1955. ''Jimmy Dean'' was the first of several feature adaptations of plays by Altman in the 1980s, after the director's departure from Hollywood. It was screened at various film festivals in North America and Europe, and won the top prize at the 1982 Chicago International Film Festival. It was well received b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shirley Clarke
Shirley Clarke (née Brimberg; October 2, 1919 – September 23, 1997) was an American filmmaker. Life Born Shirley Brimberg in New York City, she was the daughter of a Polish-immigrant father who made his fortune in manufacturing. Her mother was the daughter of a multimillionaire Jewish manufacturer and inventor. The eldest of three daughters, her sister was the writer Elaine Dundy. Her interest in dance began at an early age, but met with the disapproval of her father, a violent bully.Philip PurseObituary of Clarke's sister, Elaine Dundy ''The Guardian'', 8 May 2008. Clarke attended Stephens College, Johns Hopkins University, Bennington College, and University of North Carolina. As a result of dance lessons at each of these schools, she trained under the Martha Graham technique, the Humphrey-Weidman technique, and the Hanya Holm method of modern dance. She married Bert Clarke to escape her father's control, so she could study dance under the masters in New York City. Their ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Connection (1961 Film)
''The Connection'' is a 1961 found footage feature film directed by the American experimental filmmaker Shirley Clarke. The film was Clarke's first feature; she had made several short films over the previous decade. Jack Gelber wrote the screenplay, adapting his play of the same name. The film was the subject of significant court cases regarding censorship. It is the first known movie shot in the found footage format and beginning with a found footage title card. Plot A title card announces that the film is a result of found footage assembled by cameraman J.J. Burden (Roscoe Lee Browne) working for the acclaimed documentary filmmaker Jim Dunn ( William Redfield), who has disappeared. Leach (Warren Finnerty) a heroin addict, introduces the audience to his apartment where other heroin addicts, a mix of current and former jazz musicians, are waiting for Cowboy ( Carl Lee), their drug connection, to appear. As the men grow increasingly nervous, waiting for their fix, some of them st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbara Loden
Barbara Ann Loden (July 8, 1932September 5, 1980) was an American actress and director of film and theater.''The Hollywood Reporter'', Barbara Loden obituary, September 8, 1980. Richard Brody of ''The New Yorker'' described Loden as the "female counterpart to John Cassavetes". Born and raised in North Carolina, Loden began her career at an early age in New York City as a commercial model and chorus-line dancer. Loden became a regular sidekick on the irreverent '' Ernie Kovacs Television Show'' in the mid-1950s and was a lifetime member of the famed Actors Studio. She appeared in several projects directed by her second husband, Elia Kazan, including ''Splendor in the Grass'' (1961). Her subsequent performance in a 1964 Broadway production of '' After the Fall'' earned her a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress. In 1970, Loden wrote, directed, and starred in ''Wanda'', a groundbreaking independent film that won the International Critics Award at the 1970 Venice Film Festival. Throug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wanda (film)
''Wanda'' is a 1970 American independent drama film written and directed by Barbara Loden, who also stars in the title role. Set in the anthracite coal region of eastern Pennsylvania, the film focuses on an apathetic woman with limited options who inadvertently goes on the run with a bank robber. Inspired by her own past feelings of aimlessness, as well as a newspaper article detailing a woman's participation in a bank robbery, Loden wrote the screenplay for ''Wanda'' before securing financing through Harry Shuster, a Los Angeles-based producer. The film was shot on location with a small crew of around seven people, primarily in eastern Pennsylvania and Connecticut, and much of the dialog and filming was improvised, with Loden only loosely referring to the screenplay. ''Wanda'' was chosen for the 31st Venice International Film Festival, where it won the Pasinetti Award for Best Foreign Film. A restored version of the film was screened out of competition at the 67th Venice Int ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy Woodberry
Billy Woodberry is one of the leading directors of the L.A. Rebellion (also known as the Los Angeles School of Black Filmmakers). He is best known for directing the 1984 feature film, '' Bless Their Little Hearts'' (1984), which was honored at the Berlin International Film Festival. Background Woodberry was born in Dallas, Texas. In the 1970s, he enrolled at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Film School, where he produced and directed his earliest films. UCLA Film School During his time at UCLA, Woodberry was a part of a Black Independent Film Movement, commonly referred to as the L.A. Rebellion. The Movement consisted of a generation of young African and African-American filmmakers who studied at the UCLA Film School in the late 1960s through the late 1980s. These independent filmmakers created a Black Cinema that provided an alternative to classical Hollywood cinema. The political and social discourse of 1967 and 1968 were vital in the establishment of this mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
