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Alice Guy's Birthday to be Celebrated at her graveside in July 1st, 2010

Submitted by alison on Tue, 2010-07-06 08:03

Some of the attendees at the July 1st, 2010 Graveside Birthday Celebration for Alice Guy.

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Female film pioneer remembered in Mahwah

Submitted by alison on Fri, 2010-07-02 11:43
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Alice Directs MY MADONNAAlice Directs MY MADONNAThe first woman filmmaker, Alice Guy-Blaché, was remembered Thursday during a brief graveside ceremony at Maryrest Cemetery in Mahwah on what would have been her 137th birthday.

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Alice Guy's Birthday to be Celebrated in Fort Lee, NJ

Submitted by alison on Sun, 2010-06-27 10:07
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Madame  Blaché is buried at Maryrest Cemetery which is located at 25 Seminary Road, Mahwah NJ.

We want to start a tradition of the Fort Lee Film Commission of placing a wreath of flowers on Madame  Blaché's grave each year on her birthday of July 1 - she was born July 1, 1873 and died March 24, 1968.

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Alice Guy in the blogosphere

Submitted by alison on Sat, 2010-06-26 11:48
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Alice Guy is getting popular on the blogosphere out in New Zealand:

Ophelia Thinks Hard by an actress. And from New York,  and

Women in World by a screenwriter.

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Francisco Griñán's book on early cinema wins Prize

Submitted by alison on Sun, 2010-06-06 11:20
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'Las estaciones perdidas del cine mudo en Málaga' book on early cinema by Francisco Griñán, wins ASECAN’s “Best Book Written About Film” Prize  2009.

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Whitney retrospective catalogue "Alice Guy Blaché, Film Pioneer" takes Silver in Independent Publisher Awards

Submitted by alison on Sat, 2010-05-22 20:08
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The catalogue edited by Joan Simon for the Whitney Retrospective of the work of Alice Guy Blaché last winter has won the Silver Medal in the 2010 Independent Publisher Book Awards.

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Jan-Christopher Horak Reviews Joan Simon (ed.), Alice Guy Blaché: Cinema Pioneer.

Submitted by alison on Wed, 2010-05-19 07:31
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I just noticed this review in Screening the Past, the international, refereed electronic journal of screen history. I've only met Horak a few times, but he was the archivist at the Munich archive who helped me identify Alice Guy  Blaché's Solax film Cupid and the Comet, one of her funniest cross-dressing films. He's reviewing the catalogue that Joan Simon edited for the Whitney Exhibit, to which I contributed, but he took a sentence or two to say a few things about my books, The Lost Visionary:

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Following Alice Guy’s Footsteps in Spain: Seville

Submitted by alison on Fri, 2010-04-16 15:44
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That same evening we were going to Seville, hoping to find the ideal Carmen. The cigarette-girls whom we met had, without doubt, inherited the combative character of that heroine, but unfortunately not her seductive charm. We had to content ourselves with taking some documentaries: the celebrated Giralda, the house of Adam, the sultan’s garden and his bath of which, despite my encouragements, Anatole obstinately refused to taste the water. (The Memoirs of Alice Guy Blaché, p. 49)

Part Two of a Series

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Following Alice Guy’s footsteps in Spain

Submitted by alison on Tue, 2010-03-16 10:03
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In 1905 Alice Guy went on a two month working trip to Spain. When I was writing my book, Lost Visionary,  there was little information on this trip, but last year I had to opportunity to follow in her footsteps around Andalusia. Our trip to Andalusia was arranged by journalist Francisco Griñan. Griñan had spent several years working on what became his award winning book Las Estaciones Perdidas del Cine Mudo en Málaga, a treasure of investigative journalism that recovers much lost history on early filmmaking in Spain.

Part One of a series

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Luc Besson directs Les Aventures extraordinaires d'Adèle Blanc-Sec

Submitted by alison on Tue, 2010-03-02 17:07
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Adèle Blanc-Sec has the kind of adventurous life I’d dreamed of as a child: she’s a freelance writer in pre-WWI Paris (her later adventures took place in the 1920s) and battles a host of weird monsters, from pterodactyls in the Jardin des Plantes in Paris to satanic sects to Egyptian Mummies brought back to life.

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