News & Updates

BAM will be showing a series of films by early women filmmakers. On Saturday, July 21st, Alice Guy films will be shown, including

Alice Guy, later Madame Blaché, and after her divorce Alice Guy Blaché, was born on July 1, 1873, in a suburb of Paris. We can credit her with inventing film narrative language as we know it today.

The documentary, Be Natural, based in part on my book The Lost Visionary, premiered at Cannes this month. This is how the Hollywood Reporter describes the film:

Screen Studies is a digital platform thats takes users from script to screen and beyond – offering a broad range of content from Bloomsbury and Faber & Faber to support moving image studies.

In August of 2012 I posted a blog entitled Films by Alice Guy Lost and Found.

The article discussed two films that had recently been found and have now been preserved: Parson Sue and A Tramp’s Strategy.

It looked like The Coming of Sunbeam, another recent find, would get preserved, if it was not too late to save the film based on the elements available.

New York as it looked to Alice Guy.

Mystery. Comedy. A murder in an old house where everyone is a suspect.

These are the building blocks of Secrets of the Night, a silent movie from 1924. For years, silent film enthusiasts thought the flick was lost, like more than 7,000 other films from the era. In fact, it was listed on the U.S. Library of Congress's list of lost films.

I just stumbled on this website in Spanish devoted to Alice Guy, which starts with a blurb from the Spanish edition of my book:

Alice Guy, pionera del cine narrativo