Save Film at LACMA Night – Saturday, September 26
Save Film at LACMA has invited activists and members, Facebook fans and petition-signers to attend the Saturday, September 26 screening of a new print of A City of Sadness (a Taiwanese classic never released in the U.S. or on DVD). Last week, LA Philanthropy Watch offered an insider’s look at the grassroots campaign Save Film at LACMA has waged, mostly via social media tools, to rescue LACMA’s venerable film program. With Saturday’s screening at the museum, activist film fans may get a chance to meet each other, as well as to visibly demonstrate support for film at LACMA.
Check out the links at Save Film at LACMA and at LACMA for more details.
Peter, thank you for this posting. Our movement arises from a feeling in the community that Los Angeles has a unique history with this art form and that film must be well represented at our premiere museum.
You are spot on to note that now is the time for people to actually show up and mix and mingle — an important civic experience that is eclipsed by netflix, home cinemas. Hope all your readers will come out — see you at the movies!
by Debra Levine
on 21. Sep, 2009