In 2012, “if all goes to plan, nine of the 10 films Hitchcock directed during the 1920s will be seen as no one has seen them since their first release, restored thanks to the BFI National Archive’s Rescue the Hitchcock 9 project.”
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Having Dropped PBS, L.A.’s KCET Strikes $50M Programming Deal
The station “has reached an unusual agreement with Eyetronics Media and Studios, based in Encino, Calif., which will provide up to $50 million in financing for original productions, acquisitions and distribution over five years.”
Warning: Invest In Arts Or Risk Democracy
“Nations all over the world will soon be producing generations of useful machines, rather than complete citizens who can think for themselves, criticise tradition, and understand the significance of another person’s sufferings and achievements.”
Looking At The New September 11 Memorial
“The rebuilding effort at the World Trade Center site has been marked by enough grandstanding, backbiting and power grabs, among politicians and designers alike, to push even the most dedicated optimist toward utter cynicism. At its core, though, the memorial … has managed to preserve at least a kernel of genuine and affecting meaning.”
Stephen Sondheim Slams ART’s Revised Porgy And Bess
“More dismaying is the disdain that Diane Paulus, Audra McDonald and Suzan-Lori Parks feel toward the opera itself. Ms. Paulus says that in the opera you don’t get to know the characters as people. Putting it kindly, that’s willful ignorance.”
The Norway Killer’s Warped History Of 20th Century Critical Theory
“He devotes almost 30 pages of single-spaced text to a peculiar tour of 20th-century thought. It is poorly informed but passionate. Anders Breivik thinks of himself as an enemy of critical theory, which, by his reckoning, has ruined modern culture by undermining the rightful authority of European males. “
Alec Baldwin Wants To Be Mayor Of New York
The actor – a longtime film, stage and television star as well as the radio and TV voice of the New York Philharmonic – “said that he would probably sit out in 2013 but run in a later election, and that he wanted to educate himself about the mayor’s office first.”
Gunmen Steal $120K From Mann Center In Philadelphia
“Two gunmen made off with more than $120,000 in catering proceeds Friday in a brazen lunchtime holdup at the Mann Music Center … Investigators are looking at the possibility of an inside job.”
Kickstarter Can Get Your Art Funded – If You Put In Major Time
“Kickstarter has been around online for just over two years, and various artists, filmmakers, musicians, writers and designers have used the site to raise more than $75 million for 10,626 ‘creative projects,’ to use Kickstarter’s preferred term.”
Alfred Hitchcock’s First Movie Found In New Zealand
“The National Film Preservation Foundation and the New Zealand Film Archive are announcing … the discovery of the first 30 minutes of a 1923 British film, The White Shadow, considered to be the earliest feature film in which Alfred Hitchcock has a credit.”