Cinephile, critic and festival programmer Ian Barr joins the show to talk the films of January 2014, discover the groundbreaking career of the pioneering Alice Guy-Blaché, and look over the films directed by legendary comedian Albert Brooks.
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The website devoted to Alice Guy-Blaché (run by Alison McMahan) that we mention in this show can be found at http://www.aliceguyblache.com/
The trailer for the documentary we referred to, Be Natural: The untold story of Alice Guy-Blaché, can be seen at its Kickstarter page (which has completed its funding).
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/benatural/be-natural-the-untold-story-of-alice-guy-blache
And some key films by Alice Guy-Blaché can be viewed at the below links:
The Consequences of Feminism (1906):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQ-oB6HHttU
Falling Leaves (1912):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewB-kFpuNBs
Matrimony’s Speed Limit (1913):
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xe4zjf_matrimony-s-speed-limit-1913_shortfilms