The Rep Report (November 8 - 17)

Posted by Peter Smith
BERKELEY: For Veterans' Day weekend, Pacific Film Archives has unearthed a cache of little-seen films produced during World War II. 'Keep ’em Flying!': Films of the U.S. Army Air Forces First Motion Picture Unit (November 9- 11) showcases instructional and documentary films made by top Hollywood talent under the watchful eye of "Lieutenant Colonel" Jack Warner. The program includes William Wyler's The Memphis Belle: Story of a Flying Fortress; Robert Florey's profile of Colonel Robert Scott, God Is My Co-Pilot; as well as shorts, cartoons, and a panel discussion about "issues of masculinity and identity in the films of the FMPU."

LOS ANGELES: As part of its Salvador Dali exhibit, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art begins its film series European Surrealism and the American Avant-Garde Cinema (November 9-24). The schedule includes tributes not just to Dali himself but to such artists as Jean Cocteau, Joseph Cornell and Kenneth Anger, as well as examples of the overripe mainstream work that Surrealists claimed as sources of inspiration: The Red Shoes, Portrait of Jennie, and the immortal Pandora and the Flying Dutchman.

NEW YORK: On November 8, the Film Society of Lincoln Center sponsors a special one-night event, a rare screening of Cinda Firestone's 1974 documentary Attica, an impassioned, valuable record of and investigation into the 1971 prison riot and its bloody aftermath. The screening is co-hosted by New York Women in Film & Television.

PORTLAND: From November 9-17, the NW Film Center hosts the 34th Annual Northwest Film & Video Festival, dedicated to honoring "the heroic feats of strength, tenaciousness and passion" of the independent filmmakers of the region that Gus Van Sant calls home. A working class hero with a camera is something to be.

— Phil Nugent


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Posted Nov 08 2007, 02:00 PM
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