Category Archives: Films

Denise Koch, Experimental Film Star

Posted on September 25, 2013 by almosthipguy

by Tom Warner (Baltimore Or Less) Last Saturday, the Enoch Pratt Free Library partnered with the local experimental cinema group Sight Unseen to screen an hour-long program of eight experimental shorts selected from the Central Library’s celebrated collection of over … Continue reading →

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‘Hit & Stay’ looks to Catonsville Nine and beyond

Posted on May 8, 2013 by almosthipguy

Documentary Screening at Maryland Film Festival tells of seminal 1968 anti-war protest, peace movement it helped spawn By Chris Kaltenbach, The Baltimore Sun (May 8, 2013) Joe Tropea thought he was writing a research paper on the Catonsville Nine, a … Continue reading →

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The movies are a mission for Baltimore’s George Figgs

Posted on November 18, 2012 by almosthipguy

Getting people to watch movies the right way – in the dark, on a big screen, with an audience – is far from impossible, says RetroFest programmer By Chris Kaltenbach (Baltimore Sun, November 17, 2012) Downloading movies and watching them on a … Continue reading →

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“Chubby” from The Little Rascals Gets a Headstone After 76 Years

Posted on November 12, 2012 by atomictv

By Emma O’Connor (Time, 11/12/2012) Our Gang, the short-film series better known as The Little Rascals, starred dozens of child actors who skated through the hilarious antics of growing up in the Great Depression era. While their adventures were wholly fictional, … Continue reading →

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