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Author
Series
Jericho volume 6
Language
English
Description
Johnny has moved back in with Annie, but his new involvement in the Blackwood business puts him at odds with Coates. Annie panics when she learns that the graves will be dug up to make room for the quarry.
Publisher
CBS Studios
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Nancy Drew (Kennedy McMann) is a brilliant teenage detective whose sense of self had come from solving mysteries in her hometown of Horseshoe Bay, Maine - until her mother's untimely death derails Nancy's college plans. Devastated by her mother's passing, Nancy swears off crime-solving while crossing off the days until she can re-apply to college. But when a socialite is murdered, Nancy finds herself a prime suspect in the crime, along with a group...
Publisher
Summit Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Katherine Gordy, who goes by the nickname Kit, starts down a dark path after the death of her father. With a misdemeanor arrest and two school suspensions in her past, no one is willing to believe in her innocence when she's accused of arson. Her mother Ginny and step-father Dave don't know what to do with her. When a member of a mysterious, exclusive academy, the Blackwood Boarding School, approaches the family with a reeducation plan, Ginny accepts...
Publisher
Michael Blackwood Productions
Pub. Date
1959.
Language
English
Description
Shot in 1959, Michael Blackwood’s first film, Broadway Express, is a portrait of the people of New York City, as experienced in the city’s lively subways. Blackwood’s camera captures the beautiful and chaotic choreography of the commuters. Accompanied by a sparse musical score driven by punchy snare drums and rumbling piano notes that emulate the rhythmic, pacing pounding of the subway cars, this short film pulses with a frenetic energy that...
Publisher
Michael Blackwood Productions
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
This video documents a historic two-day conference organized in March, 2003 by Bernard Tschumi, then Dean of the Columbia Graduate School of Architecture. The conference assembled some of the greatest minds in architecture. Most participants presented cutting edge concepts and ideas.
6) New Yorkers
Publisher
Michael Blackwood Productions
Pub. Date
1971.
Language
English
Description
Set in and around East 77th Street, NEW YORKERS follows inhabitants of the neighborhood, documenting their small businesses, daily encounters and commentary on New York in the 1970s. With the neighborhood experiencing changes in culture, cost and character we get to know a wide range of residents, each vastly different from the last.
7) Monk
Publisher
Michael Blackwood Productions
Pub. Date
1968.
Language
English
Description
A portrait about the great Jazz composer and pianist, Thelonious Monk.
Publisher
Michael Blackwood Productions
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Driven by their mutual admiration of classical architecture, Robert Venturi and Denise Scott-Brown have worked together to create a space of unique post-Modernist construction. Filmed during the design and realization of the Sainsbury extension to the National Gallery in London, the husband and wife team discuss their past work and the shared principles that led to their precise, historically inspired approach to modern architecture.
Publisher
Michael Blackwood Productions
Pub. Date
1968.
Language
English
Description
An intimate and intellectual lecture given by Hannah Arendt about the work and fate of her friend and colleague in the philosophical field, Walter Benjamin. Delivered in January 1968 at the Goethe House in New York, Arendt’s speech paid tribute to Benjamin’s ideologies surrounding linguistic philosophy, history and literature. Arendt notes the importance of German-Jewish literature in Benjamin’s work, insisting that “without being a poet,...
Publisher
Michael Blackwood Productions
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Art historians and critics talk with Philip Guston about his ideas and new work of the 1970’s as he moves away from Abstract Expressionism and shifts his focus to Figuration. With the participation of Roberta Smith, Jan Butterfield and Charles Shere, CONVERSATIONS WITH PHILIP GUSTON becomes an intimate study of the artist’s thoughts, theories, and artistic pursuits.
Publisher
Michael Blackwood Productions
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The artist Carroll Dunham moved his studio from Manhattan to the outskirts of a small village in Connecticut, not far from where he grew up. He wanted to work without the distractions of the city. The critic Roberta Smith often visits his studio. This film documents a discussion of his new work: a series titled “In the Flowers” and a large canvas “The Beach”.
Publisher
Michael Blackwood Productions
Pub. Date
1969.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Katja Mann, wife of German novelist Thomas Mann, recalls their fifty years of marriage and their history both as a couple and independent intellectuals. Born in Germany, the Manns were exiled to the United States during WWII, and returned to Europe after the war, settling in Kilchberg near Zurich. Katja (née Pringsheim) was a witness to all her husband’s writing and guarded him from interruptions throughout the years. Thomas Mann’s well known...
Publisher
Michael Blackwood Productions
Pub. Date
1979.
Language
English
Description
This film documents an intimate conversation between the art historian (Meyer Schapiro) and the artist (George Segal) as they discuss Segal’s plaster sculptures in relation to the European tradition and to contemporaries, from Giotto to Abstract Expressionism. Focusing on process, material, color and theory, Schapiro and Segal examine the artist’s work and the complex thought behind his acclaimed human casts.
15) Sally Gross
Publisher
Michael Blackwood Productions
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Sally Gross is a choreographer’s choreographer. In the 1960’s she became involved in the influential experiments at the Judson Church. Making dances quietly through the years, often solos for herself, she has established a solid reputation in the New York dance world. Gross describes her dance approach as she prepares to begin a weekly movement class, started 40 years ago for friends and friends of friends. Most of the original participants still...
Publisher
Michael Blackwood Productions
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Known as “The B-Movie King”, Roger Corman’s filmography has paved ways for genre films, igniting the screen with his rambunctious exploitation cinema. This portrait, made by Christain Blackwood who at the time was an aspiring filmmaker himself, takes a closer look at Corman’s plentiful career. Corman’s early casts and crews were oftentimes bursting with young talent such as Martin Scorsese, Jonathan Demme and David Carradine. His horror-comedy...
17) Isamu Noguchi
Publisher
Michael Blackwood Productions
Pub. Date
1972.
Language
English
Description
As Isamu Noguchi walks us through his grand sculptures and gardens, the artist offers a unique insight into the way we, as individuals and as a collective society exist in time. Guided by his fascination with one’s own reaction to time, Noguchi works to create pieces that emulate the non-linear narrative of life. The fluidity of Noguchi’s work led to a collection of stunning and diverse pieces that are, as he intended, timeless.
Publisher
Michael Blackwood Productions
Pub. Date
1972.
Language
English
Description
This documentary explores the artistic connection between Robert Motherwell’s Open Series and Rafael Alberti’s poetry cycle, A La Pintura. Infatuated with Alberti’s text, Motherwood uses his words as the subject for his first venture into aquatints at Tatyana Grosman’s printmaking workshop. Historic footage shows Alberti, the last member of the Garcia Lorca generation, reading his poetry aloud. His poetic themes voice an homage to painting,...
Publisher
Michael Blackwood Productions
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Filmed in 1979, POTSDAM: GERMANY'S CITY OF GHOSTS documents the compelling past and present of the East German city. Once residence to the Prussian Kings and later on the German emperors, Potsdam is known for its rich history. After serving as the location for the 1945 Potsdam Conference following the conclusion of WW2, the city went on to house the headquarters for both the Soviet army and the East German military. Narrated by seasoned New York Times...
20) Juilliard
Publisher
Michael Blackwood Productions
Pub. Date
1971.
Language
English
Description
A visit in 1971 to the classrooms of the Juilliard School, the prominent music academy, introducing some of the gifted students and many of the brilliant faculty including: Paul Mann, Peter Mennin, Rosina Lhévinne, Jennie Tourel, Jose Limon, John Houseman, Ivan Galamian, Ania Dorfmann, Saul Goodman, and Beverley Johnson. A meaningful documentation of the school that was founded in 1905 as the Institute of Musical Art. The composer Peter Mennin became...
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