We're in Camden today and tomorrow for the festival.
More later.
Bill & Julie
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On Sep 16, 2016, at 9:04 AM, Alice Johnson <alice_johnson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
I can do 26th, 28th a.m. or p.m. and 27th, 30th p.m. Hopefully this won’t
change…
Alice
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On Behalf Of Joel Johnson
Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2016 6:10 PM
To: cinemaexp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [cinemaexp] CINEMA EXPLORATIONS 2017
Wow! 2017!
There have been inquiries about our upcoming winter film series. Some of this
has come from the recent announcement that Shannon Haines would be changing
her position and how this would affect the Maine Film Center
and—ultimately—our little corner of that. Alan acknowledged in an e-mail to
me that a lot about what responsibilities Shannon would continue to perform
had yet to be worked out, but that he felt quite confident that CINEMA
EXPLORATIONS should and would continue. I am hoping to be in touch with Ken
when he gets back from Toronto to discuss film possibilities and ways that
our group could make arrangements to see films. As many of you know, the use
of DVD screeners by film distributors is becoming increasingly rare. Many on
the committee found viewing films on a computer via a link as not
particularly satisfactory. I think sometimes the film may have been punished
for not being seen in a more advantageous situation. Anyway, hopefully we can
have some film leads and a plan to allow people on the committee to see them.
I would like to set up a meeting during the week of September 26-30.
What I need to know from each of you is whether you are willing and able to
be involved in our process this year? Life situations change and that can
impact your availability. Assuming that most of you are available, I would
like to know what time would work best for a meeting. I have commitments for
Tuesday and Thursday evening that week, but I am otherwise free. Since many
of us are retired, we did end up having meetings during the day last year and
that well may work for us this year.
In the meantime you may want to check out
https://pointsnorthinstitute.org/ciff/ . This is a page that links you to the ;
films in the Camden International Film Festival. This festival has many of
the best documentary films and documentary shorts of the year. Many of these
will be released in the next few months. I have forwarded to you other
websites in the past. Some of these are for distributors and others for film
festivals. Obviously one of the big festivals is the ongoing Toronto
International Film Festival http://www.tiff.net/tiff/ . There’s a lot of ;
films there and many will be released over the next few months though many
others may not show up for quite some time. The New York Times publishes a
Fall Movie Special Section which should be coming out over the next couple of
Sundays. That can give you a peak at what films are being released when and a
brief description. Some of you are particularly partial to classic films. Do
you have any suggestions? One classic film that I know has been recently
re-released is the 1992 film “HOWARD’S END.” If you are aware of others or
have recommendations, be sure to bring those to our meeting.
Joel
