Iwasaki Library Blog

His life was courageous and filled with adventure--he lived through World War II, the Nazi occupation of his country Hungary, and a Soviet takeover of Hungary--from which he fled, over the Austrian border, carrying film he shot of Hungarian resistance to the Soviets. http://www.cameraguild.com/magazine/stoo1298a.htm

No wonder his work on films like Easy Rider, Five Easy Pieces, New York, New York, The Last Waltz, and Mask was risk-taking and influential--the man took film seriously. Check out these films--all in our collection.

The questions were great, the answers . . . well, not so much.
Though some of the candidates had some good moments.
Of course, you can watch it at youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/debates
and it is a spectacularly surreal experience to play the responses to several questions at once--
but if you'd like to watch it in linear fashion, feel free to check out our off-air recording. Just ask for it at the Media Services desk.

After a brief hiatus, our lunch-time preview sessions are starting again next Wednesday, July 25, 12:00 p.m. in the Media Services Center. This time, our preview du jour will be The Ballad of Greenwich Village: Culture and Counter-Culture.

Anyone involved in the Common Reading and Viewing Experience might find this interesting--of course, if you can't make the preview session, you are welcome to borrow the DVD overnight. We'll have it here till July 27.