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04/27/2020

Cane River

Looking for date-night inspo? CANE RIVER is streaming via BAM Film until April 30!

Horace Jenkins’ long-lost gem of Black independent cinema set in rural Louisiana.

03/05/2020

Passing Through: Screening and Conversation with Cauleen Smith

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On March 27, friend of IndieCollect Larry Clark's beautiful 1977 film "Passing Through" will be screening at the Whitney Museum of American Art alongside Cauleen Smith's experimental short film "Chronicles of a Lying Spirit (by Kelly Gabron)"

As Jan-Christopher Horak writes of PASSING THROUGH:

'Eddie Warmack, an African American jazz musician, is released from prison for the killing of a white gangster. Not willing to play for the mobsters who control the music industry, including clubs and recording studios, Warmack searches for his mentor and grandfather, the legendary jazz musician Poppa Harris. Director Larry Clark theorizes that jazz is one of the purest expressions of African American culture, embodying the struggles of generations of Blacks going back to slavery times, but now hijacked by a white culture that brutally exploits jazz musicians for profit. The opening seven-minute credit sequence is accordingly an homage to jazz and jazz musicians, privileging the raw energy of the music...'

The screening of both films will be followed by a talk between Cauleen and film scholar Michael Boyce Gillespie.

DON'T MISS IT!

https://whitney.org/events/screening-cauleen-smith-michael-gillespie

In conjunction with the exhibition Mutualities, Cauleen Smith screens her experimental short film Chronicles of a Lying Spirit (by Kelly Gabron) (1992) alongside Larry Clark’s pivotal yet seldom-seen feature film Passing Through (1977). Produced while she was a student of Clark’s at UCLA, Smith...

02/25/2020

Cane River — Quad Cinema

NYC Friends - Valentines may be over but you can still fill up on romance with CANE RIVER playing at Quad Cinema​ from Friday February 28 - Thursday March 5

Established in 1972, Quad Cinema is New York's original multi-screen cinema.

02/25/2020

An unreleased George A Romero film addresses the effects of ageism

https://lwlies.com/articles/george-a-romero-the-amusement-park-restored-film/

CHECK OUT this wonderful article about IndieCollect's restoration of George Romero's THE AMUSEMENT PARK!

Newly restored PSA The Amusement Park is a fascinating precursor to his later genre work.

02/19/2020

Golden Globes

Golden Globes

Our Restoration Summit continues today with the African American indies "Nationtime-Gary by William Greaves and Melvin Van Peebles' "The Story of a Three-Day Pass" both from 1972 and newly restored. We round up our second annual Restoration Summit with "Fellini's Roma". Find more details here: https://www.goldenglobes.com/hfpa-restoration-summit-2020

02/19/2020

Amazing pix from @egyptiantheatre of the fabulous F.T.A Premiere!

Day 1: HFPA RESTORATION SUMMIT! You can thank the Hollywood Foreign Press Association @goldenglobes for this thrilling window into the past! Day 2 is Sunday, February 16 and includes African American Treasures at 2pm and Fellini’s Roma at 7:00pm. At the American Cinematheque at the Egyptian Theatre. #filmrestoration #janefonda #fta @ Egyptian Theatre

02/19/2020

The Big Blue | Featured Screening | Screen Slate

Read this Screen Slate Review about The Big Blue by the late Andrew Horn director and friend of Sandra Schulberg.

The Big Blue screens again this Friday, February 21 at 10pm as part of a big memorial retrospective of Andrew's work at Spectacle Theater in Williamsburg, BK.

Screening Schedule:
DOOMED LOVE
SATURDAY FEBRUARY 29 – MIDNIGHT

THE BIG BLUE
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21 – 10 PM
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28 – 10 PM

ELAINE AND OTHER SHORT FILMS
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 23 – 5 PM
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26 – 7:30 PM
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28 – 7:30 PM

THE NOMI SONG
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 25 - 7:30 PM

WE ARE TWISTED F**KING SISTER!
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22 – 5 PM
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 23 – 7:30 PM

Tickets and details here:
http://www.spectacletheater.com/andy-horn/#blue

“See? This is just like a conversation,” one man observes to another as they sit at a bar in The Big Blue, Andrew Horn’s No-Wave noir from 1988. The film, which is screening as part of Spectacle’s tribute to the beloved filmmaker and artist who passed away in 2019, is full of circular,...

02/19/2020

Jane Fonda returns to Summit with restored “FTA”

https://www.goldenglobes.com/articles/jane-fonda-returns-summit-restored-fta

FTA is the title of a documentary, lost for almost 50 years, directed by Francine Parker and produced by 15-time Golden Globe nominee and 7 times winner

02/18/2020

Now Playing at the Packard Campus Theater (February 20-22, 2020) | Now See Hear!

DC METRO FRIENDS - TOMORROW Thursday, February 20 (7:30 p.m.) head to The Library of Congress' Packard Campus Theater for:

BLACK JOURNAL: A SALUTE TO WILLIAM GREAVES

“Black Journal” was the first national American public affairs television program that was broadcast on the NET Network (Pre-PBS). This program was developed during the turbulent 1960’s and its mission was to cover political, economic, and cultural issues to a largely neglected African-American population. Laid out in a “60 Minutes” style, the show was comprised of short documentary films. A few months after production began in June 1968, co-host William Greaves was made executive producer. In 1970 under the direction of Greaves, the program won an Emmy for excellence in public affairs. Greaves was also a documentary filmmaker; his 1968 experimental documentary “Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One” was added to the National Film Registry in 2015. This program, curated from the Library of Congress’s television collection, consists of stories and performances produced during William Greaves tenure including Black Panthers; John Lee Hooker; Southern Consumers Co-op; Julian Bond; Roberta Flack; Mississippi Politics; Duke University Protest; the Black Music industry (which Includes a trip to Motown and Stax Records); a Black Athletes Panel with Jackie Robinson, Bill Russell and Arthur Ashe; Nina Simone and Black G.I.s in Vietnam. Digital presentation, 115 min.

https://blogs.loc.gov/now-see-hear/2020/02/now-playing-at-the-packard-campus-theater-february-20-22-2020/

Now Playing at the Packard Campus Theater (February 20-22, 2020). A blog post at "Now See Hear!" on 2020-02-17.

02/18/2020

Screening of Nationtime—Gary by William Greaves

This Friday, February 21 @ 6pm - FREE SCREENING of William Greaves' NATIONTIME (restored by IndieCollect) at Lewis Center for the Arts, Princeton, NJ!

https://arts.princeton.edu/events/screening-of-nationtime-gary-by-william-greaves/

As part of a day-long symposium centered on the work of American filmmaker William Greaves, the Program in Visual Arts is proud to present the premiere of Greaves's newly restored 1972 film: Nationtime—Gary.

02/14/2020

HFPA SUMMIT: F.T.A. with Jane Fonda In Person

LA FRIENDS - This weekend (Feb 15 & 16), THREE IndieCollect restorations are screening Egyptian Theatre as part of the 2020 Hollywood Foreign Press Association Restoration Summit, hosted by HFPA and American Cinematheque

F.T.A by Francine Parker (Feb 15 @ 5:30pm)
NATIONTIME by William Greaves (Feb 16 @ 2:00pm)
STORY OF A THREE DAY PASS by Melvin van Peebles (Feb 16 @ 3:30pm)

We are offering friends of IndieCollect FREE TICKETS to each of these screenings. RSVP at the links below and we will see you there!

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hfpa-summit-fta-with-jane-fonda-in-person-tickets-90862611517

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hfpa-summit-nationtime-gary-the-story-of-a-three-day-pass-tickets-90866049801

02/10/2020

The CANE RIVER restoration premiere at BAM Film​ was a HUGE success. Here's a lovely pic of Sandra Schulberg (left) along with IndieCollect editor Eva Yuma (far right) and her friends, Patrick and Mandy (center). A huge thank you to Senior Programmer Ashley Clarke (pictured with Sandra and Eva) for the wonderful Q&A with lead actors Richard Romain and Tommye Myrick!

You can still catch one of the many CANE RIVER screenings at BAM Film taking place until Feb 20.

Tickets & info here: https://www.bam.org/film/2020/cane-river

02/06/2020

‘Cane River’ Review: A Lost Treasure of Independent Cinema

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/06/movies/cane-river-review.html

Check out this wonderful Cane River review - opening at BAM Film this weekend!

Horace B. Jenkins’s tale of forbidden romance in Louisiana, completed in 1982, opens at last.

12/06/2019

New York Film Critics Circle Names ‘Irishman’ Best Film of 2019

We are absolutely thrilled that IndieCollect has been awarded a Special Award from the New York Film Critics Circle! It is an honour to be ranked among such talented people and wonderful films!

https://variety.com/2019/film/awards/new-york-film-critics-circle-awards-2019-1203424281/

“The Irishman” has been named best film of 2019 by the New York Film Critics Circle. Martin Scorsese’s epic mob drama — starring Robert De Niro and Al Pacino — also na…

11/12/2019

IndieCollect President Sandra Schulberg went to the Harvey Feirstein play #BellaBella about Bella Abzug, American lawyer, U.S. Representative, social activist and a leader of the Women's Movement. In 1971, Abzug joined other leading feminists such as Gloria Steinem, Shirley Chisholm, and Betty Friedan to found the National Women's Political Caucus.

Like Sandra, she was also well-known for her fabulous hat collection. For the play, Sandra wore one of her favourites, once belonging to her grandmother Florence Nielsen Goodrich.

Catch #BellaBella Off-Broadway! Tickets here: https://bellabellaplay.com/

10/30/2019

Oscilloscope Acquires Rights To ‘Cane River’, The One And Only Film From Horace B. Jenkins

BREAKING NEWS: Oscilloscope Acquires Rights To IndieCollect's restorationg of Horace B. Jenkins’ Long-Lost African-American Drama ‘Cane River’

https://deadline.com/2019/10/oscilloscope-laboratories-north-american-rights-cane-river-horace-b-jenkins-1202772660/

EXCLUSIVE: Oscilloscope Laboratories is looking to bring more marginalized narratives to the spotlight with its recent acquisition of Cane River. The indie film company founded by the late, great A…

10/29/2019

Cane River (1982)

[IN MEMORIAM] We are mourning the loss of the fabulous CANE RIVER editor Debi Moore (pictured far left with lead actors Tommye Myrick and Richard Romain), who passed away on October 23rd at 67.

The upcoming screening of CANE RIVER on November 1 at the Academy Film Archive in Los Angeles will be in her honor, and we are very sad that Debi will not be attending in person as she was very excited to see the restoration of her marvellous work.

Tickets to the screening and reception are still available, so please join us if you can: https://www.oscars.org/events/cane-river

(Picture courtesy New Orleans Film Society)

10/25/2019

Congratulations to friend of IndieCollect Jane Fonda, who is being honored at the BAFTA Los Angeles Britannia Awards tonight, along with several very deserving and talented others!

10/25/2019

The IndieCollect Team and friends outside of the Francesca Beale Theatre at Film at Lincoln Center after the premiere of JAZZ ON A SUMMER'S DAY by Bert Stern [the IndieCollect restoration] which had two sell-out screenings at New York Film Festival. Second pic is of Shannah Laumeister Stern, the widow of Bert and director of the documentary"Bert Stern: Original Mad Man", and John Stout, a trustee of the Bert Stern Estate.

10/24/2019

Here is a lovely photo of IndieCollect board member Catherine Wyler (left, in yellow) joined by filmmaker Kenneth Lonergan and her sister Melanie Wyler at the New York Film Festival premiere of the newly-restored DODSWORTH, directed by Catherine and Melanie's father, the legendary William Wyler in 1936.

10/23/2019

"Breaking Bread Together" - Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin Visit the Homeboy Bakery!

Following her arrest, friend of IndieCollect Jane Fonda is still protesting about the Green New Deal every friday on Capitol Hill! Go Jane! Watch this lovely video by Joan Churchill of Jane and her Grace & Frankie co-star Lily Tomlin visiting the amazing HomeboyBakery!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9uDlKqLZfI

“That’s why I love this place so much. We offer services and opportunities for jobs, but above everything, we offer sanctuary where people can take the mask ...

10/23/2019

DON'T MISS the World Premiere of Beth B's new film: LYDIA LUNCH: The War is Never Over at DOC NYC!

Saturday, NOVEMBER 9th - 7:05pm
DOC NY
IFC Center, Theater 1, 323 6th Avenue @ 3rd Street, NYC

TICKETS NOW ON SALE: www.docnyc.net/film/lydia-lunch-the-war-is-never-over
Will Sell Out

10/11/2019

Jane Fonda arrested in DC after protesting climate change

Moments after we sent a newsletter to our IndieCollect community about Jane Fonda's efforts to tackle climate change, Jane was arrested on Capitol Hill. GO JANE!

Read more here:

https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/local/dc/jane-fonda-arrested-on-steps-of-us-capitol-building-protesting-climate-change/65-353b70b0-03ea-4a1e-9374-2220a9346337

Actress Jane Fonda was arrested on Capitol Hill after protesting climate change in Washington, D.C. » Read more of the story here: https://bit.ly/2OG3WqS » S...

10/07/2019

Dodsworth

This week at New York Film Festival:

Don't miss the world premiere of the restoration of William Wyler's wonderful DODSWORTH (1936)

Starring Walter Huston and Ruth Chatterton, the film is based on Sinclair Lewis' 1929 romantic novel, a dramatic meditation on American marriage.

IndieCollect board member Catherine Wyler and her sister Melanie Wyler will give a Q&A following the screening, joined by filmmaker Kenneth Lonergan.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10 @ 8.45PM - don't miss out!

Tickets here: https://www.filmlinc.org/nyff2019/films/dodsworth/

This worldly, richly layered adaptation of Sinclair Lewis’s 1929 novel, starring Walter Huston and Ruth Chatterton as a wealthy American couple whose marriage is on the rocks during a trip to Europe, is one of the triumphs of the storied career of director William Wyler.

10/01/2019

THIS WEEKEND: Glenn Silber and Barry Alexander Brown's "The War At Home" is screening for three nights (October 4 - October 6) at The Guild Cinema in Albuquerque.

The directors will be in attendance and the final screening will be a partial benefit for Climate Strike ABQ! Don't Miss it!

Tickets Available Here: http://www.guildcinema.com/movie/2596

09/27/2019

'Everything Old Is New Again!': Master class in renovation and preservation at Gouna Film Fest - Film - Arts & Culture - Ahram Online

Check out this great article about Sandra at El Gouna Film Festival!

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/5/32/351314/Arts--Culture/Film/Everything-Old-Is-New-Again-Master-class-in-renova.aspx?fbclid=IwAR339WLt8Oq5RAdGXg8ZHG1cz_RsH-lmPUSunXjos2mnTy2o0PgPlyVLcek

'Everything Old Is New Again!': Master class in renovation and preservation at Gouna Film Fest

09/24/2019

Always in Season | Metrograph

ON THURSDAY SEPT 24 - Do not miss the next screening of Jacqueline Olive's incredibly moving and important documentary "Always in Season", having its opening week at Metrograph in NYC.

The film follows Claudia Lacy's fight for truth and justice after her son Lennon's suspicious death is quickly determined to be suicide by an apathetic local police force, while Olive examines the legacy of lynching which continues to haunt this country.

Find out more here: Always in Season

http://metrograph.com/film/film/2247/always-in-season

Metrograph is a new Manhattan movie theater devoted to screening archive-quality 35mm prints and new films in state-of-the-art digital projection.

09/23/2019

Thank you El Gouna Film Festival for having IndieCollect President Sandra Schulberg! Sandra gave a masterclass for festival attendees titled "RENOVATION & PRESERVATION: EVERYTHING OLD IS NEW AGAIN!".

From El Gouna Film Festival:
In this fascinating masterclass lead by Sandra Schulberg, the fierce founder of IFP - America’s largest association of independent filmmakers - takes on the importance of saving not only older films, but independent cinema. “I’m convinced that if we don’t do anything about this right now, most indie movies that came out in the last 50 years will vanish. Which is sad because they come from a different perspective, the underdog’s perspective. Saving these movies should be a national dialogue." From cutting-edge tech innovations which could help keep old movies alive, to the potential detriment of massive modern day streaming platforms, this talk is vital for every cinema lover in existence. Just in case you missed it, stay tuned for our 1 minute masterclass...

Keep up with all the goings on from the 2019 El Gouna Film Festival by following @elgounafilmfestivalofficial on instagram!

09/23/2019

THOUSAND PIECES OF GOLD – Mill Valley Film Festival

Nancy Kelly's THOUSAND PIECES OF GOLD (restored by IndieCollect) is screening twice at Mill Valley Film Festival, on Oct 6 & Oct 8. Tickets still available for the second screening, so get yours now to see this wonderful love story!

https://www.mvff.com/thousand-pieces-of-gold/

Lauded by the LA Times’ Michael Wilmington as “independent in the best sense of the word,” adding “the emotions are felt, the textures are true; the film, rich and moving,” this beloved masterwork from direc- tor Nancy Kelly (her only narrative feature to date) is a harrowing and inspiring...