Longtime Film Journey readers know the UCLA Film & Television Archive is one of my usual beats, so I’m especially pleased to announce that they have recently hired me as their new web editor. We’re upgrading the reach and quality of their current website and will relaunch in the coming days. The Archive [...]
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UCLA Film & Television Archive
February 15th, 2011 by Doug Cummings · 6 Comments
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AFI FEST 2010
November 4th, 2010 by Doug Cummings · 4 Comments
AFI FEST starts up today in Hollywood, and this year, I’m the Editor of the Festival blog, AFI FEST NOW, as well as an Associate Programmer. I’ll be introducing the screenings of Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, A Screaming Man, Free Radicals, Kubrick’s Lolita, and the double feature of Kim Ki-young’s [...]
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Updates
October 8th, 2010 by Doug Cummings · No Comments
Though I haven’t updated in a couple weeks, I’ve been up to my ears in film viewing. Some recent projects:
• I’ve written the program notes for LACMA’s “20th Anniversary Tribute to the Film Foundation,” which starts today. I’ve also guest-blogged about it for my Save Film at LACMA partner, Debra Levine, at her blog, artsmeme.
• I’ve [...]
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MUBI and Film Comment updates
July 19th, 2010 by Doug Cummings · 2 Comments
For the past few weeks, I’ve been attending screenings and watching screeners from the Los Angeles Film Festival, and my summary of most of the eighteen films I’ve seen has been posted at MUBI today.
Also, the new issue of Film Comment is coming out, and it names me as two of the Top Film Criticism [...]
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AFI FEST 2009 preview
September 16th, 2009 by Doug Cummings · No Comments
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 · No Comments
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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AFI FEST in November
September 8th, 2008 by Doug Cummings · 1 Comment
Lake Tahoe
This is the first year in five that I’m not attending the Toronto International Film Festival–the falling US dollar, rising fuel costs, and necessary baby duties have conspired to keep me here in Los Angeles this year, which means I’m missing at least a dozen friends (most of them listed at right) but avidly [...]
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Coming Up
August 5th, 2008 by Doug Cummings · 2 Comments
Patient Filmjourney.org readers will be happy to know that my series of life changing events over the past 11 months–including getting married, having a fussy, colicky (but adorable!) child, moving across town, etc–seem to be leveling off and I expect to resume blogging with more regularity shortly. But if any of my subsequent posts are convoluted [...]
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LAFF update
June 30th, 2008 by Doug Cummings · 2 Comments
The Los Angeles Film Festival ended yesterday, and I managed to catch a handful of films despite my beleaguered schedule the past few weeks, which I hope is settling down. Look for some posts the next few days summarizing my viewing, including my two favorite LAFF films, Philippe Ramos’ Captain Ahab and Lance Hammer’s [...]
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New Robert Bresson Bibliography
May 27th, 2008 by Doug Cummings · 2 Comments
I’m always proud of the resources Trond Trondsen and I provide at Robert-Bresson.com, and our latest project–years in the making–is an exclusive online Bresson Bibliography that uses Jane Sloan’s 1983 out-of-print bibliography and Shmuel Ben-Gad’s recent bibliographies as a starting point.
As we note on the page: “Users who want to correct or extend the bibliography, [...]
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