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August 23, 2011 | Film

Return to Hot and Humid

Posted by Laurence Kardish, Senior Curator, Department of Film

I just returned from a Maine cabin by a large freshwater lake, where I was frightened of the water. Sharks might maul me, or if not sharks, then perhaps a large snapping turtle out of a Roger Corman film (not that I can recall a Corman film with a killer turtle).

August 22, 2011 | Film

Delights of a Culinary Cineaste

Posted by Dieter Kosslick, Culinary Cineaste and Festival Director

Festival Director Dieter Kosslick. Photo: Amelie Losier. © Berlinale 2010

MoMA has described me as a Culinary Cineaste and given me Carte Blanche to select some of my favorite food films. My sincere thanks to MoMA and to Rajendra Roy for inviting me. What a pleasure and honor, because food is vital, and not just to me.

August 9, 2011 | An Auteurist History of Film

Laurence Olivier’s Henry V

Posted by Charles Silver, Curator, Department of Film

Henry V. 1944. Great Britain. Directed by Laurence Olivier

These notes accompany the screenings of Laurence Olivier’s Henry V on August 10, 11, and 12 in Theater 3.

I can’t recall an image of an auteur in action that is as stirringly visceral, dynamic, and, frankly, sexy, as Laurence Olivier’s Prince Hal in tights, rousing his army at Agincourt. (Mom, I don’t want to be cowboy or a policeman. I want to grow up to be an auteur!)

August 2, 2011 | An Auteurist History of Film

Jean Renoir’s The Southerner

Posted by Charles Silver, Curator, Department of Film

The Southerner. 1945. USA. Directed by Jean Renoir

These notes accompany the screenings of Jean Renoir’s The Southerner</a> on August 3, 4, and 5 in Theater 3.
Jean Renoir (1894–1979) made six films during his American exile—all of them worthy projects—but the consensus is that The Southerner is the best.

August 1, 2011 | Film

Hot and Humid: Some Thoughts, and a Few Questions, about Summer Films

Posted by Laurence Kardish, Senior Curator, Department of Film

Jaws. 1975. USA. Directed by Steven Spielberg. On view in Hot and Humid: Summer films from the Archives

In 2008 the Department of Film “celebrated” summer with a short series of films from MoMA’s collection set during the season in which everyone relaxes in the sun, and most people end up being caught off-guard.

July 26, 2011 | An Auteurist History of Film

Vincente Minnelli’s Meet Me in St. Louis

Posted by Charles Silver, Curator, Department of Film

Meet Me in St. Louis. 1944. USA. Directed by Vincente Minnelli

These notes accompany the screenings of Vincente Minnelli’s Meet Me in St. Louis</a> on July 27, 28, and 29 in Theater 2.

Over the years, I have had three close friends who were so devoted to Vincente Minnelli (1903–1986) that they wrote extensively about the Meet Me in St. Louis director.

July 20, 2011 | Film, Library and Archives

Film Special Collections, Now 100% More Findable!

Posted by Jennifer Tobias, Librarian, Reader Services

"Those Pictures at the 'Movies' started all my troubles," from a postcard series published by the SAS Company, 1914. The Museum of Modern Art, Department of Film Special Collections

Okay, they were previously 0% findable. Still, by adding the MoMA Film Department Special Collections inventory to the MoMA website, film researchers can now discover over 100 primary-source collections on film-related figures and topics.

July 19, 2011 | An Auteurist History of Film

Otto Preminger’s Laura

Posted by Charles Silver, Curator, Department of Film

Laura. 1944. USA. Directed by Otto Preminger

These notes accompany the screenings of Otto Preminger’s Laura</a> on July 20, 21, and 22 in Theater 2.
Last week I mildly berated Andrew Sarris for pretty much ignoring Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger in his auteurist bible, The American Cinema. This week, with Laura by Otto Preminger (1905–1986), we have an example of just how influential Sarris was and is.