EDITORIAL
The Transparent Globe...
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association adds 21 new members with emphasis on diversity. New members can immediately vote on the Golden Globes, vote on future board elections and serve on committees. The new members will have voting rights for 10 years. In addition, at the close of each membership selection, the HFPA will publicly disclose the names, country representation and the diversity demographics of its membership...
Have a safe week and a pleasant Friday night at the movies,
Jean Constant
This year’s Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam revealed that Soviet director Dziga Vertov’s “The History of the Civil War,” filmed in 1921, will screen at the festival for just the second time in its existence. The film will be shown with live musical accompaniment from the Anvil Orchestra, using a newly composed soundtrack written by Roger Miller and Terry Donahue, former members of the Alloy Orchestra. The film was initially presumed to be lost, last screening for members of the Comintern in 1921. This print was part of a two-year restoration effort by film historian Nikolai Izvolov, who had previously brought Vertov’s 1918 feature, “Anniversary of the Revolution” to screen at IDFA in 2018. The film is almost 100 percent complete except for a scene that contained Joseph Stalin, which is though to be truly lost....