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...creative energy kindled and seized the opportunities that came his way. “Harvard won’t give you anything, you have to take it,” he says. And Ravishankara has taken advantage of a lot Harvard has to offer. He shot movies on 16mm film on Harvard’s dime, earned a secondary field degree in VES, and met friends that truly inspired him. “There is this incredible diversity in people that go here and the opportunities available,” he says. Dern, of recent reality-TV fame, says...
...Pompidou Center in Paris. Despite minimal publicity, the infamous film sold out quickly, the 315 seats snatched up on a first-come, first-serve basis. There was a sense of collective privilege, as the lights went down, to be able to see an original (non-subtitled) copy of the 16mm film projected in a theater with quality sound. The excited crowd was comprised most of people in their 20s and 30s, many soixante-huitards (or "68ers," as the now-middle-aged former revolutionaries are known), a few Anglo-Saxon expatriates and anyone else with a life flexible enough...
...Weighing in at 13 lbs., 12 oz., Essential Art House is a whole film school in a really big box. It comprises 52 films that Janus either originally released in theaters or picked up after their initial runs for distribution to repertory theaters, 16mm film programs and the more enlightened TV stations. The A list of foreign films is here: Rashomon and Pandora's Box, The 400 Blows and Viridiana, The Third Man and The Lady Vanishes-the basics of an educated person's film education...
When I began teaching in 1970, my colleagues and I composed our tests on ditto-masters which left purple ink stains all over our hands. Occasionally we would watch a 16mm movie. I recorded my students' scores by hand in my red gradebook and painstakingly averaged these numbers at the end of the term. Today, in many high schools, teaching is now a technical marvel of computer labs, digital cameras, DVD players and laptops. Teachers e-mail parents, post messages for students on online bulletin boards,and take attendance with a flick of a mouse...
...There was also a healthy substratum of what were called avant-garde movies, shown at college film societies and, in New York, at Amos Vogel's pioneering Cinema 16 film club. Oh yes, it was instructive and ennobling, watching the elliptical 16mm films that some of us thought would take cinema into the post-narrative age and make it a truly modernist art. We also had to admit that movies like Bruce Conner's Cosmic Ray (a naked woman dances to a Ray Charles song) and Stan Brakhage's Window Water Baby Moving (birth, in gynecological closeup) were also, relatively...