An insider looks at film criticism through the years Sep 9, 2009
Via his narrator, actress Patricia Clarkson, Peary picks out the key figures in the development of thinking and writing about movies, from poet Vachel Lindsay in the 1920s through the great Otis Ferguson, his career cut short by WWII, to Manny Farber, James Agee, and the arrival of the French auteurists and their American counterparts in the 1960s. For the Love of Movies spends a lot of time on the latter era, and for good reason: The movies were great, the writing was spectacular, and millions... (Boston Globe)
Film reviewer turns camera on peers Sep 6, 2009
It includes interviews with more than two dozen contemporary film critics (among them the Globe s Wesley Morris), as well as looking back at such classic practitioners as James Agee and Manny Farber and the quasi-theological schism between followers of Andrew Sarris and Pauline Kael. Peary, 64, spoke last month about the film and film criticism. (Boston Globe)
A Good Woman Found May 25, 2009
(On the other hand, also represented in this American pantheon are nonentities like Dawn Powell and James Agee, as well as the atrocious Philip Roth. The attention perhaps reflects her status during the 1980s and 90s as the center of a literary cottage industry. (The American Conservative)
Summer Quotes May 12, 2009
"We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the time that I lived there so successfully disguised to myself as a child." ~James Agee. "Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon ... the two most beautiful words in the English language." ~Henry James. (Suite101.com)
Helen Levitt, 95; captured images of NYC street life Apr 1, 2009
Through Evans, Ms. Levitt met the writer James Agee, who would write the introduction to her first book, "A Way of Seeing" (1965). They later collaborated on a pair of documentary films: the feature-length "The Quiet One" (1949), about a 10-year-old at a facility for delinquents; and a short subject, "In the Street" (1952). (Boston Globe)
Photographer Helen Levitt dead at 95 Apr 1, 2009
Books of her work include A Way of Seeing (Duke University Press, 1965), with an essay by James Agee; In the Street: Chalk Drawings and Messages, New York City, 1938-48 (Duke University Press, 1987); and Mexico City (Norton, 1997). Roma called Levitt unquestionably among the greatest photographers that ever lived. (MSNBC -- Lifestyle)
ETSU faculty member assists PBS with documentary series Mar 23, 2009
Spears also wrote and directed Tell About the South, a three-part series on the history of modern Southern literature, and The Electric Valley, a history of the Tennessee Valley Authority, in addition to Academy Award-nominated To Render a Life, a feature documentary based on the book Let Us Now Praise Famous Men by James Agee and Walker Evans. The PBS history of the people and nature of Appalachia begins with the creation of the mountains eons ago and progresses through time, telling the... (East Tennessean, TN)
SCENE 13: MAGA and Much, Much More! Feb 27, 2009
The Warner Robins Little Theatre presents "All the Way Home," a play based on the Pulitzer prize-winning book Death in the Family by James Agee. This poignant drama, set in 1915 Tennessee, is all about family, life and death. (13WMAZ.com, GA)
What's Happening Feb 26, 2009
"Appalachia: A History of Mountains and People" - 7:30 p.m. today and Tuesday; a four-part series produced by James Agee Film Project; filmmakers Ross Spears and Jamie Ross will be present to introduce the films and discuss them afterwards; www. ageefilms. (Athens Banner-Herald)
The Birth of a Nation Feb 8, 2009
Journalist and critic James Agee captured the picture's mood perfectly in his quote, "the film seems ;to be a perfect realization of a collective dream of what the Civil War was like, as veterans might remember it and as children might imagine it.". While Thomas Dixon's views were clearly tainted toward white supremacy while writing The Clansmen, Griffith tried consciously to make a historical film showing all of the characters, regardless of color, in both positive and negative light. (Suite101.com)
