GME Notes the Recent Passing of Actress, Model and Activist Marsha Hunt at 94

GME Notes the Recent Passing of Actress, Model and Activist Marsha Hunt at 94

American actress, model, and activist, with a career spanning nearly 80 years, Marsha Hunt appeared in many films, including BORN TO THE WEST (1937) with John Wayne, PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (1940) with Greer Garson and Laurence Olivier, KID GLOVE KILLER (1942) with Van Heflin, CRY 'HAVOC' (1943) with Margaret Sullavan and Joan Blondell, THE HUMAN COMEDY (1943) with Mickey Rooney, RAW DEAL (1948) with Claire Trevor, THE HAPPY TIME (1952) with Charles Boyer, and Dalton Trumbo's JOHNNY GOT HIS GUN (1971). She was blacklisted by Hollywood film studio executives in the 1950s during McCarthyism.

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A Memorial Tribute to Remember Suzan Pitt and Her Films of Psychic Liberation

A Memorial Tribute to Remember Suzan Pitt and Her Films of  Psychic Liberation

One of the most inventive and inspired experimental animators of her generation, Suzan Pitt passed away in the summer of 2019 at the age of 75. To celebrate her achievements, Anthology Film Archives will be hosting two programs surveying her career as a filmmaker.

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GME Presents The Psychological Worlds of Animation and Film Noir

GME Presents The Psychological Worlds of Animation and Film Noir

Film Noir’s stylistic devices result in claustrophobic spaces that lead to the psychological and physical demise of the Noir protagonist; for experimental animators, the cinematic canvas is one that provides liberation of the character’s psyche. These two contrasting paradigms are represented by the new digital restoration of the Noir drama TRAPPED (1949) and the compilation DVD of animation films by Suzan Pitt.

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