Updated through 5/10.
"The filmmaker and Oakland native Sidney Peterson once scatted that after World War II, San Francisco 'was a city hanging loose, a small pocket edition, for a brief period, of the Vienna of Wittgenstein and Musil, and the Zurich of Tzara, the Cologne, the Berlin, the Paris, the Hanover, the New York of Dada.'" In the New York Times, Manohla Dargis notes that the version of Radical Light: Alternative Film and Video in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945 - 2000 presented at Anthology Film Archives today and tomorrow and at MoMA on Sunday and Monday "doesn't go as deep or as wide as the original, of course. But it's something of a movable feast nonetheless, and it gives you plenty to chew on, starting with an entire program dedicated to Peterson, a sculptor, painter and novelist whose adventures in the seventh art in the late 1940s turned him...
"The filmmaker and Oakland native Sidney Peterson once scatted that after World War II, San Francisco 'was a city hanging loose, a small pocket edition, for a brief period, of the Vienna of Wittgenstein and Musil, and the Zurich of Tzara, the Cologne, the Berlin, the Paris, the Hanover, the New York of Dada.'" In the New York Times, Manohla Dargis notes that the version of Radical Light: Alternative Film and Video in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945 - 2000 presented at Anthology Film Archives today and tomorrow and at MoMA on Sunday and Monday "doesn't go as deep or as wide as the original, of course. But it's something of a movable feast nonetheless, and it gives you plenty to chew on, starting with an entire program dedicated to Peterson, a sculptor, painter and novelist whose adventures in the seventh art in the late 1940s turned him...
- 5/10/2011
- MUBI
Director: James Bruner Writer: Norman Handelsman Starring: Stuart Anderson, Valora Noland, John Kulhanek The now famous cinematographer, Vilmos Zsigmond (McCabe & Mrs. Miller, Deliverance, The Long Goodbye, Close Encounters of the Third Kind) was still a little moist behind the ears from his training at the Budapest Film Academy -- where he studied alongside Laszlo Kovacs -- when first-time director James Bruner recruited him to lens Summer Children. Bruner wanted to create an homage to the masters of Italian Neo-Realism and the French New Wave -- and Raoul Coutard was probably too busy working with the highly-prolific Jean-Luc Godard -- so he chose Zsigmond, a 35-year old devout student of European cinema. Together, they created a visually magnificent film that, upon completion of production, lacked the appropriate financing for post-production publicity and distribution. Summer Children was placed in storage for over 40 years in several different Deluxe Laboratory Archival vaults in several states and countries.
- 5/6/2011
- by Don Simpson
- SmellsLikeScreenSpirit
Summer Children Screening at Grauman’s Egyptian Theatre for “American Cinematheque” Tuesday, May 10, 2011 at 7:30 pm.
The 45 year delayed Los Angeles World Premiere of Summer Children, will unveil the work of Academy Award winning cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond, Asc. Vilmos is known for his exquisite use of natural light, and desaturated color. Summer Children is an example of his early work in the American New Wave movement. Fresh from his training at the Budapest Film Academy where he studied with Laszlo Kovacs, it is evident that Vilmos’ style was directly influenced by Italian Neo-Realism, New Wave, and Fellini. His creative combination of nourish lighting with intoxicating natural light on the deck of “The Mayflower”.
Academy Award Winning Cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond, Asc states, “You can’t cut corners in Film Making”…referring to the importance of lighting direction and quality education for aspiring film makers. The craftsmanship and raw film making talent revealed in this early feature,...
The 45 year delayed Los Angeles World Premiere of Summer Children, will unveil the work of Academy Award winning cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond, Asc. Vilmos is known for his exquisite use of natural light, and desaturated color. Summer Children is an example of his early work in the American New Wave movement. Fresh from his training at the Budapest Film Academy where he studied with Laszlo Kovacs, it is evident that Vilmos’ style was directly influenced by Italian Neo-Realism, New Wave, and Fellini. His creative combination of nourish lighting with intoxicating natural light on the deck of “The Mayflower”.
Academy Award Winning Cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond, Asc states, “You can’t cut corners in Film Making”…referring to the importance of lighting direction and quality education for aspiring film makers. The craftsmanship and raw film making talent revealed in this early feature,...
- 5/1/2011
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
There’s very little in this world that gets me more excited than when an underground film festival adopts WordPress as a Cms for their website. Even more exciting is when the world’s oldest underground fest does it, as the Chicago Underground Film Festival has recently. Awesome looking site, guys! Gazelluloid is an experimental cinema blog that’s been around almost a year, but I just discovered it. The site posts up tons of great short films with no commentary. You should go bookmark it. There’s another brand new experimental film blog out there, too: cori e comete. However, you have to read Italian to get the full effect. The blog name translates to “choruses and comets.” There’s a new experimental and avant-garde screening space in North America: CinemaSpace at the Segal Centre in Montreal. Lots of great screenings are scheduled already. CineSpace is being run by Daïchi Saïto and Malena Szlam.
- 2/6/2011
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Press release received for the lost 60s film The Summer Children starring sexy blonde starlet Valora Noland of Beach Party and Muscle Beach Party fame:
The fun at Slamdance Film Festival has begun. We think you’ll see how it can also be profitable for you after you view Summer Children –Monday, January 24th, 7:00 p.m., in Park City.
Vilmos Zsigmond, Academy award winning cinematographer, has won many awards; he ranks Summer Children as one of “my best early works” in regards to his important efforts in America after escaping from the Hungarian revolution in the 1960’s.
This American New Wave neo-noir film was produced in 1965, yet it never reached the screen.
As the original producer; I thought this film had been lost, but through a serendipitous occurrence, re-discovered Summer Children in 2008. Edie Robinette –Petarchi and I then spent two years restoring and digitizing the film. From excitement shown...
The fun at Slamdance Film Festival has begun. We think you’ll see how it can also be profitable for you after you view Summer Children –Monday, January 24th, 7:00 p.m., in Park City.
Vilmos Zsigmond, Academy award winning cinematographer, has won many awards; he ranks Summer Children as one of “my best early works” in regards to his important efforts in America after escaping from the Hungarian revolution in the 1960’s.
This American New Wave neo-noir film was produced in 1965, yet it never reached the screen.
As the original producer; I thought this film had been lost, but through a serendipitous occurrence, re-discovered Summer Children in 2008. Edie Robinette –Petarchi and I then spent two years restoring and digitizing the film. From excitement shown...
- 1/24/2011
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
The 17th annual Slamdance Film Festival is all set to run for eight days and nights Jan. 21-27. The festival is featuring a bold theme this year of “All Is Not Lost” where — due to the current devastating economic climate — Slamdance will donate 10% of ticket proceeds back to the filmmakers.
The fest is screening 14 feature films — 10 of which are in competition — and 8 feature documentaries, all of which are in competition. In addition, there will be 56 short films screening.
Plus, there are a couple of special screenings, including the Straight 8 event where anybody can register to receive a single roll of Super-8 film that they can use to direct their own in-camera edited mini-masterpiece. Also, on the 26th, there will be a special retrospective of the works of renegade ’60s filmmaker J.X. Williams.
The full film lineup is below, but for more information on the site please visit the official Slamdance website.
The fest is screening 14 feature films — 10 of which are in competition — and 8 feature documentaries, all of which are in competition. In addition, there will be 56 short films screening.
Plus, there are a couple of special screenings, including the Straight 8 event where anybody can register to receive a single roll of Super-8 film that they can use to direct their own in-camera edited mini-masterpiece. Also, on the 26th, there will be a special retrospective of the works of renegade ’60s filmmaker J.X. Williams.
The full film lineup is below, but for more information on the site please visit the official Slamdance website.
- 12/23/2010
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
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