[Frameworks] Richard Myers' AKRAN (1969) restored, showing Monday in LA

[Sandra Maliga]

Any chance there will be a screening at the Academy in Hollywood?


On Oct 16, 2010, at 12:19 PM, Mark Toscano wrote:

> Sorry, usually the shows I do in L.A. automatically end up on the  
> 'This Week'...' mailings, but this one's at UCLA, and I forgot to do  
> it myself!
>
> If you're near or in L.A. this Monday, hope you might try to make it  
> to the Billy Wilder Theater in the Hammer Museum for a 7:30  
> screening of Richard Myers' legendary AKRAN, from 1969.  It's a  
> remarkable, unique, and intense piece, incredibly rich and layered,  
> masterfully executed, visually and aurally arresting.  In its day it  
> was monumental, but it hasn't been screened much in the past 2-3  
> decades.  The film has been restored by the Academy Film Archive  
> (and the heroes at Colorlab) and I'm eager for people to  
> (re/)discover it.  (And there's no Redcat conflict.)
>
> Some quotes:
>
> "Richard Myers is unquestionably a major talent of the American  
> avant-garde and AKRAN one of his most important films .... It  
> creates a Joyce-like, dense and somber mosaic of memory and sensory  
> impressions, a texture instead of a plot, a dream-like flow of  
> visually-induced associations." (Amos Vogel, Film as a Subversive Art)
>
>
> "...the most influential film since Godard's early work... the  
> single most important event of this year's Chicago Film Festival,  
> Akran is so good, so inventive, so radically original, that it may  
> even be flatly rejected by the audience... It is beyond our previous  
> experience.'' (Roger Ebert) (?!)
>
> Hope to see you there,
>
> Mark Toscano
>
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