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

[Mark Toscano]

Hi Sandy,

No, I don't think that'll happen.  Not sure if it will screen again in LA anytime soon...

Mark


--- On Mon, 10/18/10, Sandra Maliga <neoreal at maliga.com> wrote:

> From: Sandra Maliga <neoreal at maliga.com>
> Subject: Re: [Frameworks] Richard Myers' AKRAN (1969) restored, showing Monday in LA
> To: "Experimental Film Discussion List" <frameworks at jonasmekasfilms.com>
> Date: Monday, October 18, 2010, 9:15 PM
> 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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