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Posts tagged with Screen Arts Mavericks & Makers in Blog Beyond the Reading Room

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  • Philip A Hallman
Next week : John Sayles on Welles and Altman
Join us next Friday 14 April 3-5 pm in the Hatcher Gallery for an event with writer and director John Sayles! Sayles will kick off the Bilmes Visiting Filmmaker series by sharing items of interest he discovered while looking through the archives of fellow maverick directors Orson Welles and Robert Altman.
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  • Philip A Hallman
Special Collections After Hours | From the Archive to the Page: The Later Films and Legacy of Robert Altman
Join the Special Collections Research Center next Tuesday (8 March) at 4 pm EST for our next After Hours virtual open house of the term celebrating the launch of ReFocus: The Later Films and Legacy of Robert Altman, which draws on materials from the Robert Altman Collection.
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  • Evyn Kropf
Special Collections After Hours: Altman at 50
Join the Special Collections Research Center next Tuesday (12 October) at 4 pm EDT for our second After Hours virtual open house of the term exploring the films of Robert Altman!
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  • Philip A Hallman
Nancy Savoca's Dogfight (1991) in the 2021 TCM Classic Film Festival
Turner Classic Movies (TCM) in conjunction with HBO Max will present Dogfight (1991), directed by Nancy Savoca, as part of its annual film festival this month. Savoca, whose papers were donated to the University of Michigan, is part of the library's Screen Arts Maverick & Makers collection.
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  • Kristine Greive
Symposium and Exhibit Celebrating Filmmaker Nancy Savoca
Join filmmaker Nancy Savoca at a symposium celebrating her career on Friday, May 10. The symposium will include several panels, an exhibit opening, and film screenings.
contact sheet of photographs of Alan Rudolph with actor Keith Carradine
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  • Kristine Greive
New Exhibit: Alan Rudolph
A new exhibit drawing on materials from the Alan and Joyce Rudolph Papers is now on view in the Hatcher Graduate Library Gallery (Room 100).
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  • Annika Joyce Pattenaude
Behind the Scenes: Collections About Film
As I thumbed through letters between Danny Kaye and his sweetheart Holly Fine, I couldn’t help but imagine the ginger-haired actor twirling Vera-Ellen in his arms and singing “The Best Things Happen While You're Dancing.” We often think about film as a moving media––people and objects flickering across screens––but film archives, like those of the Special Collections Library, contain the material, tangible objects that accompany the making of films. These materials tell rich stories!