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

More about this will follow. For now, via Dreaming Ant’s blog:

Dreaming Ant’s 5-year anniversary is rapidly approaching. As part of our celebration on Sunday, March 23, we’d like to show as many local short films and/or videos as we can (within a 2 hour window). If you have something under 10 minutes long that you’d like to submit, we’d love to consider it for inclusion in our celebration exhibition.

Follow the link for info on how to submit.

Via the Pittsburgh Lesbian & Gay Film Festival’s website:

When: Friday, March 28 at 9PM

You can find more information about it at www.butchjamie.com .

For more info on the film, here’s a link to its IMDb page: Butch Jamie (2007)

Via the Pittsburgh Documentary Salon blog:

In Service: Authentic Narrative From Iraq to Pittsburgh
presented by Jessica Fenlon

Five years ago this month, US and a coalition of other countries invaded Iraq. To mark this anniversary, the Salon presents In Service, a view of the war from the perspective of those Americans who fought there, and returned.

In Service was originally presented as a multimedia presentation featuring moving and still images and live narration from those who have served in Iraq. Fenlon, one of the original editors, has created a single-screen version of the show.

Tuesday, March 4
6:30p Food & Social
7:00p Screening & Discussion

I’ve been impressed with pretty much everything I’ve seen so far that Jessica Fenlon has been involved with, so I’m sure this is worth checking out. Particularly because it’s free. This is, as usual, in the Classroom Theater at Melwood. For more info, check out the Pittsburgh Documentary Salon blog.

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: Into the Wild (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: No Country for Old Men (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: Harold and Maude (1971)

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: American Gangster (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).