From the Museum of Modern Art
Robert Lipton
http://moma.org/exhibitions/film_media/2004/112_years.html
The following information:
112 Years of Cinema
November 24, 2004–December 31, 2005
Unprecedented in scope, this fourteen-month series presents one example
of film or video from every year of moving-image history. Spanning the
years 1893 (when Edison's first kinetoscope subject, Blacksmithing
Scene, was presented to the public) through 2005, 112 Years of Cinema is
nonchronological and embraces all genres of film- and videomaking,
including fiction and documentary, narrative and non-narrative,
animation, and the avant-garde. Titles are drawn from the extensive
collection of the Museum’s Department of Film and Media, with occasional
contributions from film studio libraries and International Federation of
Film Archives (FIAF)–member archives. 112 Years of Cinema provides
compelling evidence not only in support of the assertion by Alfred H.
Barr, Jr., MoMA's founding director, that motion pictures were the art
form of the twentieth century, but that they are the art form of the
twenty-first as well.
Organized by the staff of the Department of Film and Media.
Love Me Tonight. 1932. USA. Directed by Rouben Mamoulian. Screenplay by
Samuel Hoffenstein, Waldemar Young, George Marion. With Maurice
Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Myrna Loy. When a tailor falls in love
with a princess, they communicate their blossoming affection through the
delightful music and lyrics of Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart. With
songs like "Isn't It Romantic?" and "Mimi," this film has been described
as one of the finest musicals ever made. 89 min.
Wednesday, November 24, 8:45. T1
Potomok Chinghis-khan (Storm over Asia/The Heir to Jenghis-Khan). 1928.
USSR. Written and directed by Vsevold Pudovkin. With V. Ikijinoof, I.
Dedintsev, A. Christyakov. This sweeping Soviet epic about the Mongolian
uprising against the creation of a puppet government remains stirring
and current. Seventy-five years ago, it opened theatrically in New York
in an abbreviated version—the same month that MoMA opened. But the
Museum later acquired this 35mm print struck from the original Soviet
negative. Silent, with piano accompaniment by Stuart Oderman. Russian
intertitles, with simultaneous English translation. Approx. 80 min.
Monday, November 29, 5:00. T2
Presumably there will be more later.
Bob