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LGBT Titles Slated for Preservation by Outfest and UCLA Film & Television Archive

Director Bill Sherwood's 1986 film, "Parting Glances," and The Mariposa Film Group's "Word is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives" (1978) will be the first two gay films restored under a program by the UCLA Film & Television Archive and Outfest, dubbed the Outfest Legacy Project for LGBT Film Preservation. The project has already established the world's largest publicly accessible collection of LGBT films since its establishment in 2005, according to a release by the groups. LGBT independent films - including significant titles from the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s - are in particular peril because of a perceived lack of commercial value by the indus...

Warhol Doc to Screen in Select Theaters Ahead of Television Broadcast

Emerging Pictures, the New York-based digital cinema network, is partnering with Thirteen/WNET New York and other local PBS public television stations across the country to bring to the big screen "American Masters Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film," the first production to explore the full range of the pop artist's career. The two-part, four-hour documentary is directed by Ric Burns. The film is narrated by artist and musician Laurie Anderson and features artist Jeff Koons as the voice of Andy Warhol. The doc premieres on the "American Masters" series Wednesday, September 20 and Thursday, September 21 at 9 p.m. (ET) on PBS. The film will be sc...

AFP: "Democracy is under attack": Gore

Former US Vice-President Al Gore warned an audience at the Edinburgh International Television Festival that "democracy is under attack." Gore, who was also in Edinburgh partly to promote his film and book about climate change, both titled "An Inconvenient Truth," continued: "There's a feeling in the...

NY Times: A Big Star May Not a Profitable Movie Make

Is Sumner M. Redstone crazy like a fox? Movie industry executives may be forgiven for thinking that the Viacom chairman was mad to let Tom Cruise go after a 14-year relationship simply because Mr. Cruise seemed a little off balance. After all, the movies made by Viacom's Paramount Pictures studio and the actor's production company earned more than $2.5 billion at the box office. Yet, if you ask economists and other academics that study the movie industry, Mr. Redstone's decision was, in financial terms, spot on. The best reason to get rid of Mr. Cruise or, for that matter, Mel Gibson, or Lindsay Lohan, is not their occasional aberrant behavio...

The Great Divide: Andrew Bujalski's "Mutual Appreciation"

Is Andrew Bujalski the cinematic voice of a mumbling, inarticulate, moderately employable generation, or a talentless student filmmaker who's managed to spin a single badly done trick into an honest-to-goodness moviemaking career? There's not much I can say, and most certainly nothing in "Mutual App...

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