The inaugural season of the American Cinematheque series Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair took place in 2022, a cheeky stab at some summertime counter-programming. Its diverse lineup was aimed, as per the Cinematheque’s website, at spotlighting “filmmakers who wholly embrace a cinema of despair in pursuit of unpleasant truths and raw empathy.” Indeed, in the festival’s first 33 film–strong slate of…
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Exclusive: The American Cinematheque will partner with the Paris for another New York incarnation of its popular festival, with highlights including an archival 35mm print of "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?" and a new 4K restoration of "The Man Who Wasn't There."
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The American Cinematheque’s This Is Not a Fiction festival, which kicks off this week in Los Angeles, has emerged as something truly special in the documentary exhibition space. The third edition of the event, running April 16-24, will welcome some of the biggest names in nonfiction filmmaking, among them Barbara Kopple, Gianfranco Rosi, Ross McElwee, […]
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L.A.’s American Cinematheque arts nonprofit org is launching a new weekly interview podcast series, featuring a range of filmmakers and others sharing their most memorable moviegoing experiences. “The American Cinematheque Podcast” is hosted and executive produced by artistic director Grant Moninger. The show blends a podcast-style interview format with a game-show element, in which each […]
For 28 years, the Noir City film festival has been unfolding every spring under the aegis of the American Cinematheque, give or take a couple of early name changes since it began in 1999. The festival has had enough themes over those years that you might imagine its curators had already used up whatever subtopics […]
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