I know there is at least one person from Mass., who visits this blog, so I thought this might be of interest. I had a chance to meet experimental filmmaker Rob Nilsson from Berkeley, Cal., at the Grandin Theatre in Roanoke, Va. He is quite a unique talent, and he considers John Cassavettes to be one of his main influences. Nilsson will be presenting a series of films in the Boston area.
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Harvard Reminder A reminder that we’re heading into Boston next week for screenings of OPENING at Boston University, on Thursday, Nov. 15, and then the three days of 9 @ Night at Harvard, Nov. 17-19. This is the schedule: NOISE, Sat. Nov. 17- 5:00 PM Please tell Aunt Lucretia, Cousin Jack and the boys, Freddie Freeloader, Conk the Junkman, and all the little Teletubbies to come to the screenings. You will get a reduced rate if you buy tickets to all 9 films and watch them with me. You will also get a free DVD of your favorite film, plus other unnameable and even conceivable aesthetic pleasures and considerations for several generations to come. In short, please help us to sell these houses out. We did so in our home town, but here we need word of mouth, e-mails to friends, and just generally getting the word out that this is an historic occasion, the first time all 9 9 @ Night Films will be shown back to back, and in order. Please try to come and please ask others to follow suit. Below, Survival on the Margins, is the excellent essay, written by Ray Carney, author of the major books on John Cassavetes, Carl Dreyer, and Mike Leigh. I feel honored that we have such an insightful and erudite essay fronting for us at Harvard. Well what do you expect from a couple of old Harvard grads, although I’m a little older than Ray (but don’t tell him.)” post a comment |
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Survival on the Margins - by Ray Carney - For 30 years, San Francisco–based Rob Nilsson has been serving as the conscience and agent provocateur of low–budget American independent filmmaking. Beginning with the award–winning Northern Lights, Signal 7, and Heat and Sunlight in the 1970s and 1980s, he has devoted his cinematic career to presenting the sorts of sociological realities, interpersonal interactions, and emotional transactions that have been screened out of big–budget, mainstream American film... read more & comment The End of Art- Posted by Orion Star- The following exchange between Ray Carney and Arthur Vibert was pulled from Ray Carney's website. This exchange is followed by Rob Nilsson's reply on the subject. Ray Carney: (to his readers) I print the following letter as a "word to the wise," a lesson that each... read more & comment Nilsson’s SF360 Interview - Posted by Orion Star- The following interview is by Dennis Harvey of SF360. The original article is located at SF360.org. Veteran Bay Area filmmaker Rob Nilsson was a staple in San Francisco's collectivist, countercultural film scene of the 1970s, a leading figure in the American independent feature landscape of the 1980s, and then... read more & comment |
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