Du Mont is a pioneer in the television industry, with the first American TV sets on the market in 1938. In the late 1940s and early 1950s, Du Mont was America’s fourth television network before Channel Five (Fox) proved that a fourth network was viable. Du Mont competed with CBS, NBC and ABC for a television audience. DuMont was second to enter the network TV business, establishing a link between its New York City and Washington, D.C....
We’re still talking about this Special Event that was presented at the beginning of the second week of the New York Film Festival. You could say we are still under the “Kubelka Spell”, experiencing the “here and now” and creating new art forms in the moment. Whoa. That’s where this ride has taken me, by surprise and seemingly stunned for some time afterwards. It’s also why I asked Yuri Turchyn to guest blog this fascinating...
The 50th New York Film Festival, which began Friday night, September 28 is beyond the midpoint of its two week festival run with a “Centerpiece” World Premiere screening of Not Fade Away by David Chase (The Sopranos) yet the film schedule continues to entice, drawing huge audiences to the newly renovated Lincoln Center campus. While it was a gray, rainy day for an October weekend in New York City, it was an excellent day for watching films,...