I Went to a Video Store
Video-rental stores are cool again. As a recent Kickstarter for a Baltimore outlet puts it, “A great video store is so much more than a place of business. The best … Continue reading
What an A/V Archivist Does
My Opinions about the Kennedy family are usually jaundiced to the point of incandescence, but especially so now since one of that bunch is about to present himself as the … Continue reading
Anne of the Indies (1951)
In The American Cinema, Sarris rhetorically paired this with Way of a Gaucho, another Jacques Tourneur feature from the early 1950s, calling them “two misguided Fox projects conceived in … Continue reading
Stom Sogo: PS When You Thought You Are Going To Die
I dutifully read up on the small amount of material out there on film and videomaker Stom Sogo before going to Friday night’s screening of some of his work at … Continue reading
Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005)
This is another one of those network narrative films which seemed to suddenly become a self-conscious mini-genre around the turn of the century. Here, disparate connections are tracked among a … Continue reading
Stop Calling Archives Dusty
I could say that the phrase “dusty archive” bothers me due to some sense of professional propriety – you know, “speaking as an archivist.” I wouldn’t be entirely off my … Continue reading
Amateur Hour
While I may have let my own personal brand languish here for the last several months, I feel like I should probably use whatever diminishing presence this site can claim to … Continue reading
