Detroit: Ruin of
City
A
road movie about Detroit and the automobile
industry, a documentary about making a
documentary about a city.
By
Michael Chanan and George Steinmetz
with
music by Michael Nyman
92'
2005
New
Cinema of Latin America
This
two-part documentary examines the social and
artistic roots of the national cinemas of Latin
America.
Part
I,
Cinema of the Humble,
traces the evolution of its theoretical and
aesthetic positions, and focuses on the
development of cinema in Cuba and
Nicaragua.
Part
II,
The Long Road,
examines the development of new forms of
representation, repression against filmmakers,
and the emergence of a new women's cinema.
Directed
by Michael Chanan 1985.
Part
I: color, 83 mins., video / Part II: color, 85
mins., video
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Outstanding
Nonprint Material, Choice (American Library
Association)
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"...a
unique and important resource... [with] an
enormous amount of information... an admirable,
complex effort."--Library Journal
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"...informative,
thorough, and well-paced... Highly recommended
for appropriate college classes, and for
university libraries building collections on the
history of cinema."-- Choice (American Library
Association)
Purchase
or rent from
Cinema
Guild
A new version of these films is now available, re-edited down to a single film of 80 mns. Contact me for details.
A new version of these films is now available, re-edited down to a single film of 80 mns. Contact me for details.
Logic
Lane
(6
x 60mns, 1972), series of educational films on
philosophy.
Available
on-line to participating universities in the
British Universities
Film and Video Council (BUFVC) MAAS Media
Online project.
See
description
and
availability.