Observations on film art

Anyone who follows this blog will know that David and I have visited the Cinematek in Brussels many times to watch movies and take frame enlargements for our many projects.

Paul Taberham’s impressive study of film animation was released earlier this month.

Kristin here: David’s passing was well over two years ago, and not surprisingly various tributes continue to appear.

Many of you may know that an anthology of writings about various aspects of David’s career has been in the works–partly because many of you contributed to it.

Kristin here Last year at the Le Giornate del Cinema Muto film festival in Pordenone, Italy, attendees had the first opportunity to purchase Lea Jacobs’ fresh-off-the-presses book, John Ford at Work: Production Histories from 1927 to 1939.

Back in 2024, I was contacted by two Romanian film professors, Andrei Rus and Doru Nitescu of the Universitatea Nationala de Arta Teatrala si Cinematografica “I.L.Caragiale.”

Kristin here– Last autumn I was contacted by Nick, aka The Voice of Nick, asking for my consent to his creating an audio-book of The Frodo Franchise.

The Youth of Maxim (Grigoriy Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg) Kristin here: As usual, this end-of-the-year entry has come out early in the next year.

Kristin here– Loyal readers of this blog checking back at intervals in the hope of finding a new entry will not have found one for quite some time now.

Kristin here: Students and faculty in the film-studies division of the Department of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are known for aesthetic analysis of films and historical study of the film industry.

I dimly remember hearing in late 2020 that the sequel to Moana (2016) was going to be Moana: The Series, streaming on Disney+ rather than a theatrical feature.