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At A Revisionist Movie Museum, History “Abridges” The Jews
"We are questioning a canon and creating a canon."
Thus did Doris Berger, senior director of curatorial affairs at the Academy Museum, explain when asked by Sharon Rosen Leib of The Forward why Jews had what seemed to her a disconcertingly small place in this new shrine to the movies.
The exchange was reported in an…
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A New Tax Filing Shows 2020 Salaries Were Up At The Film Academy
The Candid service, which monitors nonprofits, just recently posted a Form 990 tax filing from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2020, and the news was good for top Academy officers: Salaries were up across the board.
Based on the filing—but correcting for an error…
At The Movie Museum, Like The Rest Of L.A., It’s All About The Parking
You might be tempted to blame Covid for those awkward "timed ticketing" protocols at the new Academy Museum of Motion Pictures. Pick a time. Reserve in advance. No early entry. No guarantees if you show up after a 30-minute grace period. No refunds. Timed tickets required even for free child's admission.
Academy Museum…
With Tests, Vaccine And A Velvet Rope, Hollywood Promoters Face The Virus
It's Oct. 1. Give it a week. Check the headlines, message boards, and online gossip.
If the film awards and festival circuit hasn't run smack into a Covid cluster by then, we can all breathe easier. Hollywood will have blazed a trail past the pandemic.
Unintentionally—because, let's face it, show business has never…
For Best Picture Contenders, Race and Sex Inventory Time Is Here
For Oscar Best Picture contenders, the time has come to deliver an inventory of the racial/ethnic identity and sexual/gender orientation of those involved with your film.
On Wednesday, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which presents the Oscars, quietly launched its new RAISE platform, an online system…
As The Academy Museum Arrives, We Wonder How Movies Will Be Remembered In The Long Run
As the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures prepares to open this month, it seems a good moment to consider the big picture. I mean the really big picture.
Specifically, I'm wondering, over the long haul—hundreds, not dozens, of years—how the movies of our era will be regarded.
It's safe to assume, should mankind…
The Truly Amazing Al Ruddy Delivers ‘Cry Macho’ After All These Years
Every once in a long while, I manage to have an encounter with the film producer Albert S. Ruddy. It's always—what?
Funny? Fascinating? Enlightening? Unexpected?
I think I'll go with amazing.
It's certainly amazing to see Al Ruddy, at the age of 91, credited as a producer of Cry Macho, which is set for release by Warne…
All Those New Academy Vice Presidents Add Up To One Powerful Mini-Board
As it turns out, there was more than meets the eye to a recent announcement by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences that it had added a couple of Vice Presidents, bringing the total to eight, in addition to its elected President, Secretary, and Treasurer.
In fact, under the Academy's revised bylaws, dated…
As Vaccine Mandates Loom, It’s A Good Time Not To Be A Movie Exhibitor
It's fascinating to watch local governments — New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, New Orleans — rush to enact Covid vaccine requirements for entry to the publicly accessible spaces of private business, including, yes, movie theaters.
I'm not equipped to judge the ultimate propriety or efficacy of such mandates…
As The Film Academy Governors Meet To Elect Officers, Will It Be Business As Usual?
Later today, the first Tuesday in August, the board of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will meet to install newly elected governors and reorganize its officers, pretty much as usual.
As usual, the governors will almost certainly elect casting director David Rubin, the Academy's current president, to…
As The Audience For Almost Everything Evaporates, We Reach For Occam’s Razor
Where did everybody go?
They certainly weren't watching the Friday night Tokyo Olympics opening ceremony. The audience dropped to about 17 million, down 37 percent from 26.5 million viewers for the Rio de Janeiro opening in 2016 (though Saturday’s numbers was better.)
We know they weren't at the movies. The box office…
Thanks For The Reminder, Morgan Neville. Documentaries Are Not Real.
For movies, the best thing to happen last week was documentarian Morgan Neville's flip response to The New Yorker's query about his having covertly used artificial intelligence to voice some of Anthony Bourdain's lines in the film Roadrunner.
"If you watch the film, other than that line you mentioned, you probably…
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