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Emmy and Golden Globe award-winning Mad Men archive donated to UT Austin’s Harry Ransom Center

January 12, 2017 - Suzanne Krause

The archive for the acclaimed drama Mad Men, one of television’s most honored series in history, has been donated to the Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin. [Read more…] about Emmy and Golden Globe award-winning Mad Men archive donated to UT Austin’s Harry Ransom Center

Filed Under: Film Tagged With: acquisition, Acquisitions, Advertising, AFI, Alisa Perrin, BAFTA Awards, Costumes and Personal Effects, donation, Emmy Awards, Film, Golden Globe Awards, Janie Bryant, Kathryn Allison Mann, Kevin Beggs, Lionsgate, Lionsgate TV, Mad Men, Matthew Weiner, New York, Peabody Award, Producers Guild Awards, props, release, RTF, script, set design, Steve Wilson, television, Television Critics Association Awards, Writers Guild Awards

Secret Scripture’s Sebastian Barry on the journey from Dublin to Hollywood

December 7, 2016 - Kathleen Telling

Sebastian Barry

Dublin-born author Sebastian Barry has received high praise for his novels, poetry, and plays alike. The mastermind behind a repertoire of over 20 published works, Barry weaves together the onward flow of modern Irish history, allusions to family folktales, and colorful characters with graceful sympathy. His 2008 novel, The Secret Scripture, is no exception to this stylistic triad. [Read more…] about Secret Scripture’s Sebastian Barry on the journey from Dublin to Hollywood

Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts, Film Tagged With: family lore, Film, Jim Sheridan, Roseanne McNulty, Sebastian Barry, The Secret Scripture

Behind the real magic of Hollywood’s Golden Age

November 30, 2016 - Marissa Kessenich

Co-authored by Karen Maness and Richard Isackes, lecturer and professor in The University of Texas’s Department of Theatre & Dance, The Art of the Hollywood Backdrop (Regan Arts) offers an unprecedented look at the breathtaking hand-painted backdrops of old Hollywood films like Cleopatra (1917), The Wizard of Oz (1939), and The Sound of Music (1965). [Read more…] about Behind the real magic of Hollywood’s Golden Age

Filed Under: Film, Research + Teaching Tagged With: backdrop, Film, Hollywood, Karen Maness, painting, Richard Isackes, scenic art

“You talkin’ to me?” 

October 13, 2016 - Steve Wilson

Explore the Harry Ransom Center, search digital collections, or plan your visit.

Forty years ago, Taxi Driver was released to critical and popular acclaim and its most famous line, “You talkin’ to me?” instantly became one of the most memorable lines in film history. [Read more…] about “You talkin’ to me?” 

Filed Under: Film Tagged With: acting, actor, Film, manuscript, Martin Scorsese, Paul Schrader, performance, Robert De Niro, script, Taxi Driver, Travis Bickle

This is not a film: Ransom Center screens Ross Lipman’s NOTFILM

May 26, 2016 - Kathleen Telling

The Ransom Center presents a screening of Ross Lipman’s Notfilm, an experimental “kino-essay” charting the development and production of Samuel Beckett’s ambitious and enigmatic 1965 silent film project, Film, directed by Alan Schneider and starring silent-film actor Buster Keaton. [Read more…] about This is not a film: Ransom Center screens Ross Lipman’s NOTFILM

Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Film Tagged With: Alan Schneider, Barney Rossett, Buster Keaton, documentary, experimental film, Film, film essay, kino-essay, Mihaly Vig, NOTFILM, Ross Lipman, Samuel Beckett, silent film, summer film series

Summer Film Series kicks off with Film and Not Film

May 18, 2016 - Kathleen Telling

The Ransom Center presents its Summer Film Series, beginning Thursday, June 16, with a showing of FILM (1965) followed by NOTFILM (2015). [Read more…] about Summer Film Series kicks off with Film and Not Film

Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Film Tagged With: Alan Schneider, Buster Keaton, Film, Frida, Frida Kahlo, Julie Taymor, NOTFILM, Salma Hayek, Samuel Beckett, Self-portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird, short films, Vaudeville and Vitaphone, Warner Brothers

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