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Jazz on a Summer's Day - Monday 30 August Riverside Studios
This 1959 classic is considered one of the most extraordinary and possibly the first concert film ever made. Its sparkling new 4K restoration by IndieCollect, with colour correction by @OskarMiarka, recently premiered at the 57th New York Film Festival with sold out shows.
Filmed at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival in Rhode Island, Jazz On A Summer's Day features intimate performances by an all star line-up including Louis Armstrong, Thelonius Monk, Gerry Mulligan, Anita O'Day, Chuck Berry, Dinah Washington, and closes with a beautiful rendition or The Lord's Prayer by Mahalia Jackson at midnight to usher in Sunday morning.
In partnership with the Green Man Festival this special screening will include 20 minutes of bonus content, exclusive to cinemas.
One screening only - book now for Monday 30 August:
https://riversidestudios.film/jazzonasummerday
"Among the great American films of the sixties." - Richard Brody, New Yorker
Melvin Van Peebles’s edgy, angsty, romantic first feature could never have been made in America. Unable to break into a segregated Hollywood, Van Peebles decamped to France, taught himself the language, and wrote a number of books in French, one of which, LA PERMISSION (THE STORY OF A THREE-DAY PASS), would become his stylistically innovative feature debut.
New 4K restoration by IndieCollect in consultation with Mario Van Peebles, with support from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.
Starts streaming in our virtual cinema 5/28:
https://www.siskelfilmcenter.org/story-three-day-pass
“The Show the Pentagon Couldn’t Stop!” In 1971, at the height of the Vietnam War, Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland toured an anti-war comedy show across Southeast Asia. It was directly engaged with and inspired by veterans against the war and, naturally, it upset U.S. military higher-ups. The F.T.A. tour was highly controversial and was a huge success among stationed soldiers. In spite of positive reviews and business, director Francine Parker’s film version was quickly taken out of circulation due to political pressures and has been difficult to see for decades.
IndieCollect’s new 4K restoration is now available on Digital and 📀:
https://bit.ly/3ovTiCL
Melvin Van Peebles' edgy, angsty, romantic first feature could never have been made in America. Unable to break into a segregated Hollywood, Van Peebles decamped to France, taught himself the language and wrote a number of books in French, one of which, "La Permission," would become his stylistically innovative feature debut. Turner (Harry Baird), an African-American soldier stationed in France, is granted a promotion and a three-day leave from base by his casually racist commanding officer and heads to Paris, where he finds whirlwind romance with a white woman (Nicole Berger) — but what happens to their love when his furlough is over? Channeling the brash exuberance of the French New Wave, Van Peebles creates an exploration of the psychology of an in*******al relationship as well as a commentary on France's contradictory attitudes about race that is playful, sarcastic and stingingly subversive by turns, and that laid the foundation for the scorched-earth cinematic revolution he would unleash just a few years later with SWEET SWEETBACK'S BAADASSSSS SONG.
New 4K restoration opening next Friday, May 14 by IndieCollect in consultation with Mario Van Peebles, with support from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.
Pre-order:
http://bit.ly/AFIVSRThreeDayPass
“What most histories don’t tell you is that an equally widespread and powerful movement against the [Vietnam] War existed inside the military itself.”
Jane Fonda recorded a new introduction to our re-release of Francine Parker's F.T.A. (1972), restored by IndieCollect and opening Friday in virtual cinemas: bit.ly/ftafilm
Absolute legend Jane Fonda shouted out our re-release of F.T.A., which was restored by IndieCollect with support from HFPA, in her Golden Globes acceptance speech for the Cecil B. DeMille Award last night.
Opens Friday in virtual cinemas: bit.ly/ftafilm
Here are our thoughts on the Kino Lorber reissue of the 1959 film “Jazz on a Summer’s Day.” “It's a joy to watch to this day, and the 4K restoration by IndieCollect does it ample justice: the sound is crisp, the images sometimes shockingly intimate.”
In 1971, at the height of the Vietnam War, Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland toured a controversial yet highly popular anti-war comedy show across Southeast Asia.
We're bringing IndieCollect's restoration of F.T.A. to virtual cinemas starting March 5.
Sad to note that actress Carol Dickerson Sutton died of Covid-19 on December 10 in New Orleans. Carol had turned 76 a few days before.
Her obituary by John Pope omits mention of her extraordinary performance in CANE RIVER — one of the best roles of her prestigious career. Director Horace Jenkins's movie was lost from view for nearly 40 years, but now Sutton's performance is immortalized in a recent restoration by IndieCollect. You can see Carol Sutton in this amazing movie on demand through Oscilloscope here:
https://caneriver.oscilloscope.net/ . Read Sutton's obituary here:
https://www.nola.com/entertainment_life/movies_tv/article_c17e8b80-3c08-11eb-aacf-fb950522b808.html
IndieCollect Cane River (film) African American Women In Cinema Oscilloscope Laboratories
Now playing: a new 4K restoration of the uncut, color version of William Greaves' NATIONTIME, about the 1972 National Black Political Convention in Gary, Indiana, from IndieCollect and Kino Lorber.
Screen at home to support AFI Silver! Virtual cinema made possible by Kino Lorber.
More info and screening link:
https://bit.ly/AFIVSRNationtime
Nominated for an Academy Award® and widely considered one of the most important political films ever made, The War At Home tells the story of the impact of the war in Vietnam on one American city, using Madison, Wisconsin and the University of Wisconsin as a microcosm for the national Antiwar Movement.
Montclair Film is proud to present a new 4K restoration by IndieCollect in our Virtual Cinema, starting today.
Now playing: a new 4K restoration of the uncut, color version of William Greaves' NATIONTIME, about the 1972 National Black Political Convention in Gary, Indiana, from IndieCollect and Kino Lorber.
Nell Minow reviews for Roger Ebert.com:
"'Nationtime' is a call to action, showing us how far we have come in some ways. Jackson notes in his electrifying speech that there were only 13 Black Members of Congress when proportionately 'we are supposed to have 52.' Today there are 56 Black Members of Congress (plus 42 Hispanic, 17 Asian, and 4 Native American). The speakers call on the US to play more of a role in ending apartheid in South Africa. No one in 1972 Gary even thinks to imagine a Black President or a Black/South Asian female Vice-Presidential candidate. Indeed, other than the two widows, and a mention of Angela Davis, there are very few women featured in the film and there is no discussion of the particular concerns of women of color or of other marginalized groups within the Black community.
By those measures—the number of Black elected officials, the end of apartheid, and the contemporary recognition that women's rights are human rights—we can take some satisfaction in our greater understanding and participation.
But for those very reasons, 'Nationtime' is a sharper reminder of how little, even with those achievements, has been accomplished and how difficult, even with those opportunities, it continues to be. Indeed, it is fair to say that the Black family in the White House and the subsequent election of a President who has refused on more than one occasion to speak out against bigotry and white supremacy have exposed an increased backlash of overt racism. So many of the topics raised in 1972 are depressingly even more urgent today. The landmark civil rights legislation of the '60s created new opportunities for equality and progress but it did not deliver them."
Screen at home to support AFI Silver! Virtual cinema made possible by Kino Lorber.
More info and screening link:
https://bit.ly/AFIVSRNationtime
