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The True Story of Tamara de Lempicka and the Art of Survival 2024
A Tamara de Lempicka exhibit is at the De Young in San Francisco through Feb 9, 2025 & will be at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston March 9 – May 26, 2025.
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Sunday 1961
Don Drasin put his documentary which he made when he was 19 on YouTube
I watched it on the Criterion Channel where it is part of the special edition of Inside Llewyn Davis
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The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords 1999
Review I wrote in February, 1999 for TV Ultra when it first aired on PBS:
The black press was never intended to be objective because it didn't see the white press being objective. It often took a position. It had an attitude. This was a press of advocacy."
- Phyl Garland, former reporter for the Pittsburg CourierJournalists don't exactly have a great reputation these days. So it is refreshing to watch The Black Press and see reporters who were…
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When We Were Bullies 2021
More people will be able to see When We Were Bullies starting March 30, 2022 on HBO. Also watch The Smell of Burning Ants which is on Kanopy along with more of his films.
Mark Athitakis is interviewed in the documentary. His 2000 profile of Jay Rosenblattn for SF Weekly, The 10-minute masterpiece, is online.
