Last night I attended the screening of ten Vitaphone shorts at the Pacific Film Archive. It was part of their current UCLA Festival of Preservation series. Vitaphone was Warner Brother's early talking film technology, synchronizing image on film with sound on phonograph discs. The system was used for features—the best known being The Jazz Singer—but … Continue reading Vitaphone Shorts at the PFA
Day: September 23, 2011
What’s Screening: September 23 – 29
The Irish Film Festival, the Latino Film Festival, and Hong Kong Cinema all continue through Sunday. B+ Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975, Embarcadero, Shattuck, Piedmont, opens Friday. The nature of the civil rights movement changed dramatically in the mid-to-late 1960’s, and this American/Swedish documentary tracks the black power movement from Stokely Carmichael’s heyday until heroin ravaged … Continue reading What’s Screening: September 23 – 29
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