“The cinema is always as perfect as it can be”

The February edition of the Pittsburgh Documentary Salon will feature 16mm film for the first time. Here’s a description that was sent out to their mailing list:

THIS MONTH: City of Gold, plus more Vintage 16mm films.
Presented by Joe Morrison

City of Gold (1957, Low, Koenig) The groundbreaking film about the Klondike Gold Rush, this National Film Board of Canada production is the first documentary to make extensive and meaningful use of archival photography. If you thought Ken Burns invented the “Ken Burns Effect”, come see City of Gold. 22 min, 16mm.

Joshua’s Soapstone Carving (1981) Don McBrearty
Heartbeat of a Volcano (1970) Bert Van Bork
and maybe even the beloved non-doc
Paddle to the Sea (1967) Bill Mason

Tues, Feb. 5
6:30p Food & Social
7:00p Screening

All at Pittsburgh Filmmakers’ Melwood Screening Room. For more info, check out their website.

On Friday, February 1 at 12pm in room 4130 of Pitt’s Wesley W. Posvar Hall, Sheila Skaff will deliver a lecture called “Early Cinema in Partitioned Poland: Problems in Historiography.” Here’s a bio from the official flyer:

Sheila Skaff is Assistant Professor of Film in the Department of Communication at the University of Texas at El Paso. She is the author of The Law of the Looking Glass: Cinema in Poland, 1896-1939, forthcoming from Ohio University Press. She received the 2006 Metchie J.E. Budka Award in Polish History from the Kosciuszko Foundation and a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend in 1997. Her research interests include East European cinema, early cinema, silent film, and media on the borderlands.

Information about the February edition of Film Kitchen is now up at their website. But, just in case you’re too lazy to click over, here’s what it says:

The next Film Kitchen takes place Tuesday, February 12 at 8:00pm at the Melwood Screening Room, 477 Melwood Ave., N. Oakland.

For more info, please call 412-316-3342.

I’ve heard good things about Mr. Bob Labobgäh, so mayhap I’ll actually make it to one of these screenings for once!

Screening tonight in CMU’s McConomy Auditorium: Cloverfield (2008)

For more details, here’s the Activities Board’s “upcoming films” page, and here’s the full Spring 2008 schedule. Films are $1 for CMU students, $3 for everybody else, and typically start at 8pm, 10pm, and 12am (or thereabouts).

Screening tonight in CMU’s McConomy Auditorium: Be Kind Rewind (2008)

For more details, here’s the Activities Board’s “upcoming films” page, and here’s the full Spring 2008 schedule. Films are $1 for CMU students, $3 for everybody else, and typically start at 8pm, 10pm, and 12am (or thereabouts).

Screening tonight in CMU’s McConomy Auditorium: Persepolis (2007)

For more details, here’s the Activities Board’s “upcoming films” page, and here’s the full Spring 2008 schedule. Films are $1 for CMU students, $3 for everybody else, and typically start at 8pm, 10pm, and 12am (or thereabouts).

Screening tonight in CMU’s McConomy Auditorium: Rambo (2008)

For more details, here’s the Activities Board’s “upcoming films” page, and here’s the full Spring 2008 schedule. Films are $1 for CMU students, $3 for everybody else, and typically start at 8pm, 10pm, and 12am (or thereabouts).

Screening tonight in CMU’s McConomy Auditorium: I Am Legend (2007)

For more details, here’s the Activities Board’s “upcoming films” page, and here’s the full Spring 2008 schedule. Films are $1 for CMU students, $3 for everybody else, and typically start at 8pm, 10pm, and 12am (or thereabouts).

Screening tonight in CMU’s McConomy Auditorium: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)

For more details, here’s the Activities Board’s “upcoming films” page, and here’s the full Spring 2008 schedule. Films are $1 for CMU students, $3 for everybody else, and typically start at 8pm, 10pm, and 12am (or thereabouts).

Screening tonight in CMU’s McConomy Auditorium: There Will Be Blood (2007)

For more details, here’s the Activities Board’s “upcoming films” page, and here’s the full Spring 2008 schedule. Films are $1 for CMU students, $3 for everybody else, and typically start at 8pm, 10pm, and 12am (or thereabouts).