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Ross McElwee's amazing new film Sherman's March shares the best elements of home movies. The film's ostensible subject is the director Ross McElwee himself, and the photography and synchronized sound were taken by McElwee as he lugged his 16mm camera to secluded islands, mountain retreats and the guest bedrooms of a series of women from his romantic past. But unlike your basic home movie, McElwee has not sent forth a slew of random holiday footage. On the contrary, he has edited meticulously some 30 hours of hand-held adventure filming to produce a rueful, bittersweet...
...addition to entertaining the community, Backus says that the club will endeavor to make movies of its own. Since the cost of making an hour-long 16mm sound film is close to $15,000, Backus says that the film society has applied for money from the Undergraduate Council and the Office of the Arts to defray the costs. He adds that the club hopes for "pure profit" from the screenings in the Science Center...
...minute, 16mm color flick is one of only two film projects independent of Visual and Environmental Studies classes being done this year. Thirty students applied to the Office of the Arts for funding, but only Jonathan J. Scherick '84 of the Harvard Radcliffe Filmmaking Club got money--a $400 grant...
...commercial network, which gives the film a new title (The Umpire Strikes Out). To fit a two-hour prime-time slot, the network cuts it to 97 minutes. Later, another network restores much of the footage, including half an hour of outtakes, minus the locker-room sex scene. Finally, 16mm prints are rented to film societies and revival houses, but in a TV-shaped format and with yet another title: La Cage aux Fouls...
Louis Bakanowsky, chairman of the Visual and Environmental Studies (VES) department, cites dwindling resources as the primary weakness of the film studies branch at the Carpenter Center. Film students concur. They point out the limited 16mm equipment, remarking on its fragility and suggesting that the department reinvest in simpler 8mm machinery and videotape. Additionally, film students complain of professors who are overbearing, non-objective, self-important critics and not themselves film-makers. Real-life film-makers as part-time professors, some students say, would greatly improve the department...