The TCM Classic Film Festival is teaming up with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) to showcase a unique slate of programming that taps into Academy archives and distinguished membership to illustrate this year.s overall festival theme of Style in the Movies.
AMPAS will exhibit Hollywood home movies, preserved by the Academy, featuring legendary stars and filmmakers, presented by Randy Haberkamp of AMPAS and Lynn Kirste of the Academy Film Archive with special guests Margaret O’Brien; Steve McQueen.s former wife Neile Adams McQueen Toffel; Henry Koster.s son, Robert Koster; and the daughter of Fred MacMurray, Kate MacMurray.
AMPAS will also present a discussion of how art directors use various items to aid in storytelling featuring members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Art Directors Branch as well an exhibit of sketches and behind-the-scenes photography that illustrate the work of costume...
AMPAS will exhibit Hollywood home movies, preserved by the Academy, featuring legendary stars and filmmakers, presented by Randy Haberkamp of AMPAS and Lynn Kirste of the Academy Film Archive with special guests Margaret O’Brien; Steve McQueen.s former wife Neile Adams McQueen Toffel; Henry Koster.s son, Robert Koster; and the daughter of Fred MacMurray, Kate MacMurray.
AMPAS will also present a discussion of how art directors use various items to aid in storytelling featuring members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Art Directors Branch as well an exhibit of sketches and behind-the-scenes photography that illustrate the work of costume...
- 3/19/2012
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Six years ago at the age of 18, Stephen Slater followed events as they unfolded a billion miles away on another world. His documentary about the Huygens mission, Destination Titan, will be broadcast on Sunday at 10pm on BBC Four
It was a slow news day on Planet Earth. That morning, column inches in the papers had mainly been torn between such trivialities as the impending split of pop boy band Busted, and the furore over Prince Harry's decision to wear a Nazi costume to a fancy dress party.
Meanwhile, a billion miles away in space, something extraordinary was about to happen that would have a profound effect on the next six years of my life.
The date was 14 January 2005. Less than a week had passed since my 18th birthday, but I'd been a self-confessed space geek for many years, having grown up on a diet of books and films about the planets.
It was a slow news day on Planet Earth. That morning, column inches in the papers had mainly been torn between such trivialities as the impending split of pop boy band Busted, and the furore over Prince Harry's decision to wear a Nazi costume to a fancy dress party.
Meanwhile, a billion miles away in space, something extraordinary was about to happen that would have a profound effect on the next six years of my life.
The date was 14 January 2005. Less than a week had passed since my 18th birthday, but I'd been a self-confessed space geek for many years, having grown up on a diet of books and films about the planets.
- 4/10/2011
- The Guardian - Film News
The second (or second and third, depending on how you look at it) Margot & The Nuclear So And So's album is many things, but fun listening, it isn't. Apparently the collective ended up in a face-off with Epic over which tracks should be included. The compromise is Animal!—the band's preferred version, a vinyl/digital release—and Not Animal, for mainstream consumption. The dedication of bandleader Richard Edwards is admirable, but it's hard to hear the difference: It's two albums (with some overlap) of gloomy indie-rock stew. Margot is from Indianapolis, but it sounds like Broken Social Scene's members all broke up with their significant others and held a jam session on Saddle Creek Road. Morose, impeccably arranged, and monochromatic from start to finish, both incarnations of Animal are a perfect synthesis of indie-rock circa 2008. That isn't a compliment; it's hard to tell how such intelligent music goes wrong.
- 10/14/2008
- by Vadim Rizov
- avclub.com
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