Moving Image Source is a website of the
Museum of the Moving Image (New York City) devoted to the history of
film
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,
television, and
digital media
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. Made possible with support from the Hazen Polsky Foundation, it features original articles by leading critics, authors, and scholars; a calendar that highlights major
retrospective
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s, festivals, and gallery exhibitions at venues around the world; and a regularly updated guide to online research resources. Film critic
Dennis Lim
Dennis Lim (born in Singapore
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currently serves as editor-in-chief.
The launch of Moving Image Source was marked by a special program at
The Times Center in Manhattan at 6:30 p.m. on June 5, featuring a conversation between directors
Werner Herzog (''Encounters at the End of the World'', opening June 11) and
Jonathan Demme
Robert Jonathan Demme ( ; February 22, 1944 – April 26, 2017) was an American filmmaker. Beginning his career under B-movie producer Roger Corman, Demme made his directorial debut with the 1974 women-in-prison film ''Caged Heat'', before ...
(''
The Silence of the Lambs'').
Moving Image Source is updated every Thursday with additions to the Articles and Calendar sections.
Articles
The articles relate to recent and ongoing retrospectives and gallery exhibitions as well as to significant new DVDs and books on film, media, and moving-image culture. Pieces are accompanied by photographs, video clips, and sidebars offering suggestions for further viewing, reading, or listening. June contributors included critics and authors Melissa Anderson,
Michael Atkinson,
Joshua Clover
Joshua Clover (born December 30, 1962 in Berkeley, California) is a writer and a Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California Davis.
He is a published scholar, poet, critic, and journalist whose work has been t ...
,
Tom Charity, Thomas Doherty,
Chris Fujiwara
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People with the given name
*Chris Abani (born 1966), Nige ...
,
Ed Halter,
B. Kite,
Michael Koresky, Rob Nelson,
Nick Pinkerton,
Tony Rayns,
Jonathan Rosenbaum,
Dan Sallitt, and
Ed Sikov
Ed Sikov (born 1957, Pennsylvania) is an American film scholar and author. His books include ''Mr. Strangelove: A Biography of Peter Sellers'' (published in 2002), ''On Sunset Boulevard: The Life and Times of Billy Wilder'' (published in 1998), a ...
. Topics included the career of
Werner Herzog, Wallis-Hazen Productions, a reappraisal of the ’60s films of
William Klein, the late Taiwanese filmmaker
Edward Yang, video artist
Eddo Stern, the late films of
Howard Hawks
Howard Winchester Hawks (May 30, 1896December 26, 1977) was an American film director, producer and screenwriter of the classic Hollywood era. Critic Leonard Maltin called him "the greatest American director who is not a household name."
A v ...
, Japanese actor
Tatsuya Nakadai
is a Japanese film actor.
He was featured in 11 films directed by Masaki Kobayashi, including ''The Human Condition'' trilogy, wherein he starred as the lead character Kaji, plus ''Harakiri'', ''Samurai Rebellion'' and ''Kwaidan''.
Nakadai wor ...
, and the recent restoration of
Max Ophüls’s
Lola Montès.
Calendar
The Moving Image Source Calendar is a selective guide to major screenings, series,
festivals, and gallery exhibitions. Calendar entries include program summaries, exhibition descriptions, titles of films or featured works of media art, and links to presenting venues. The Calendar draws on the programming of more than 100
museums, media arts centers,
cinematheques
A cinematheque is an archive of films and film-related objects with an exhibition venue. Similarly to a book library (bibliothèque in French), a cinematheque is responsible for preserving and making available to the public film heritage. Typica ...
, and other venues around the world that regularly present film and media programs. An international Venue List can be found in the Calendar section: Venues on the list emphasize original programming and the presentation of work in its original format, and/or large-scale gallery exhibitions.
Research Guide
The site's Research Guide is an annotated and regularly maintained database of more than 400 moving-image related resources on the web, ranging from scholarly and popular journals to film-related libraries and archives. They have been organized into a detailed, easy-to-navigate
taxonomy with five primary categories: “People,” “History and Styles,” “Industry,” “Technology and Craft,” and “
Criticism
Criticism is the construction of a judgement about the negative qualities of someone or something. Criticism can range from impromptu comments to a written detailed response. , ''"the act of giving your opinion or judgment about the good or bad q ...
and Ideas.” The Research Guide may also be browsed by resource type, and advanced search and filtering options are available.
[From http://www.movingimagesource.us/research]
References
External links
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