Tagged: film

There's a dearth of video footage of pre-World War II Louisville, but the Filson Historical Society has recently re-discovered three 16-millimeter reels presumably shot in the city in the late 1930s or early 1940s.

The Filson staff can't say for certain what's on the reels—the films are too deteriorated for a projector.

Hoping to at least salvage the reels' contents, the Filson Historical Society has is trying to raise $2,369 to have the footage digitized and put in their archives.

The Louisville Film Society's fifth annual Flyover Film Festival opens tonight with two films with local connections and a poetic Western crime film that's been garnering buzz on the festival circuit. The film festival runs through Sunday, with most events happening at the Clifton Center (2117 Payne St.). 

I was listening Thursday as NPR’s Talk of the Nation played host to film buff Murray Horwitz, for a lively and unabashedly film-nerd-friendly discussion on the phenomena of Hollywood prequels, sequels and reboots. And it was just as Horwitz and host Neal Conan had been gushing over The Godfather Part II, itself both prequel and sequel, that word came of the passing of film-critic Roger Ebert.

The 15th annual Jewish Film Festival opens Saturday with "My Best Enemy," an Austrian Holocaust thriller about two best friends who switch identities to recover a priceless work of art. The Jewish Community Center produces the annual festival to explore in film the complexities of Jewish culture and what it means to be Jewish in the modern era.