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Entries from September 2009

AFI FEST 2009 preview

September 16th, 2009 by Doug Cummings · Comments Off

I’ve championed AFI FEST the previous two years since Artistic Director Rose Kuo came on board and pushed the festival into becoming Los Angeles’ best survey of world cinema. And I’ve been even more excited this year due to the programming involvement of Robert Koehler, a bona fide cinephile, critic, and festival hound (and [...]

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LACMA Film Wrap-up

September 6th, 2009 by Doug Cummings · Comments Off

The Wall Street Journal published an article this weekend–“LACMA and the Cinéastes”–that provides a good account of the efforts of my colleagues and I during our previous five-week campaign to convince the Los Angeles County Museum of Art to reverse its decision to end its 41-year-old film program this October. At the moment, films [...]

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