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20 April 2010

LACMA film falters …

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CEO Michael Govan made repeated promises to find serious funding for the film program at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Eight months later, how’s that going? [...]

20 January 2010

Martin Scorsese lectures at LACMA

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High expectations of meaningful dialogue between LACMA Director Michael Govan and filmmaker Martin Scorsese were dashed when a canned presentation on the merits of film presentation replaced a reality-based conversation. [...]

7 September 2009

Saving the village: our struggle to save LACMA’s film program

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At the September 1 “Popcorn Summit” (our coalition pictured above on the LACMA campus), Doug Cummings, my smart film critic partner, and I presented Mr. Govan with the petition. This we did with pride. We had amazing press coverage in the Los Angeles Times, Time magazine on-line, and the New York Times. But the piece de resistance was a beautifully written, highly personal article by David Mermelstein in the Wall Street Journal. [...]

1 August 2009

LACMA cancels film program

Concerns the cancellation of the 41-year running classic film program by Michael Govan, the head of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, LACMA. [...]