THE FOREIGN FILM IN AMERICA
"One of the best written books on foreign films in America written in the last 50 years!"
Available from Truline Legacy, Inc.
Contents:
Full Index by Director, Movie Title and General Topic
A Triumph of Art over Censorship
James N. Selvidge horsestk@horsestalk.com
716 S. Anacortes St.
Burlington, WA 98233
(360) 755-1175
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WA.
98233
USA
THE FOREIGN FILM IN AMERICA
“Ordinarily, it might be rather
difficult to associate such qualities as courage, imagination,
compassion, and artistic wisdom with the owner-operator of a movie
theatre in America. But all those attributes and several more mark
the character of James N. Selvidge.”
—— Lou Guzzo
Drama Editor,
The
Seattle Times
“In the age of Netflix, when just about any film made anywhere can be
summoned painlessly to your mailbox, we do well to remember that
once upon a time there were only a handful of independently
operated movie theaters in the United States dedicated to showing
foreign-language cinema. Prints were few, sane distributors fewer,
and even as the beleaguered exhibitors struggled to build an
audience for “movies you had to read,” often as not they had to
fight off local censor boards, right-wing xenophobes, and
self-appointed arbiters of morality and decency. Jim Selvidge was
one of these cultural heroes (if you can feature a hero in
horn-rimmed glasses heavy enough to tilt the Titanic). Single
handedly at times he championed Bergman, Godard, Bunuel, Kurosawa,
et al., put the Seattle Censor Board out of business, founded the
Seattle Film Society and enticed his community to take the first
steps toward acquiring a reputation as one of the savviest movie
towns in the country. It’s an important story.”
—— Richard T. Jameson
Manager Edgemont Theatre (1967-70.
Editor
Movietone News
(1971-81) and
Film
Comment
(1990-2000)
“Those were the days!”
—— Cy Harvey, founder, Janus Films