{"id":25,"date":"2018-08-16T23:14:25","date_gmt":"2018-08-16T23:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/publicknowledge.sfmoma.org\/added-value\/?page_id=25"},"modified":"2018-09-19T17:57:19","modified_gmt":"2018-09-19T17:57:19","slug":"libraries-in-the-movies","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/publicknowledge.sfmoma.org\/added-value\/libraries-in-the-movies\/","title":{"rendered":"Books on Film"},"content":{"rendered":"

Books on Film<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Saturday, September 22, and Sunday, September 23
\n<\/strong>Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Atrium and Phyllis Wattis Theater
\n<\/strong>Free and open to the public<\/strong><\/p>\n

Pick up a book at Added Value: An Alternative Book Sale,<\/em> and then check out films that explore the critical role of libraries in our communities.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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Films<\/strong><\/h3>\n

<\/a>Toute la M\u00e9moire du Monde
\n<\/strong><\/em>Saturday, September 22 ,\u00a012:30pm
\n<\/em>Alain Resnais, 1956, 22 minutes<\/p>\n

Widely known for the Holocaust film Night and Fog<\/em> and his seductive ode to memory and lost love, Last Year at Marienbad<\/em>, Alain Resnais began his career experimenting with cinematic form in short documentaries. Toute la m\u00e9moire du monde<\/em> is both a look at the inner workings of the Biblioth\u00e8que nationale de France in Paris and a meditative piece about the fragility of human memory and the ways in which we try to support it.<\/p>\n

Film Details
\nCountry: France
\nLanguage: France
\nYear: 1956
\nRunning time: 22 minutes
\nFormat: Digital
\nDirector: Alain Resnais
\nScreenwriter: R\u00e9mo Forlani
\nProducer: Pierre Braunberger
\nCinematographer: Ghislain Cloquet
\nEditor: Alain Resnais
\nSource: L\u2019Agence du du court m\u00e9trage<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/a>Ex-Libris: The New York Public Library<\/strong>
\n<\/em>Saturday, September 22 , 1:30 p.m.
\nFrederick Wiseman, 2017, 197 minutes<\/p>\n

\u201cFrederick Wiseman\u2019s film, Ex-Libris: The New York Public Library<\/em>, goes behind the scenes of one of the greatest knowledge institutions in the world and reveals it as a place of welcome, cultural exchange, and learning. With 92 locations throughout Manhattan, the Bronx and Staten Island, the library is committed to being a resource for all the inhabitants of this multifaceted and cosmopolitan city, and beyond. The New York Public Library exemplifies the deeply rooted American belief in the individual\u2019s right to know and be informed. It is one of the most democratic institutions in America \u2014 everyone is welcome. The Library strives to inspire learning, advance knowledge, and strengthen communities.\u201d \u2014Zipporah Films<\/p>\n

Film Details
\nCountry: USA
\nLanguage: English
\nYear: 2017
\nRunning time: 197 minutes
\nFormat: DCP
\nDirector: Frederick Wiseman
\nProducer: Karen Konicek and Frederick Wiseman
\nCinematographer: John Davey
\nEditor: Frederick Wiseman
\nSource: Zipporah Films<\/p>\n

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<\/a>Storm Center
\n<\/em><\/strong>Sunday, September 23, 12:30 p.m.
\nDaniel Taradash, 1956, 85 minutes<\/p>\n

Director Daniel Taradash tackled themes drawn from the conflict and political passion in American life of the 1950s \u2014 Communism and McCarthyism and its by-products book banning and censorship. Filmed in Santa Rosa, California, the film stars Bette Davis as the small town librarian who fights the city council when asked to withdraw the book The Communist Dream<\/em> from the library\u2019s collection. This was among the first overtly anti-McCarthyism film to be produced in Hollywood exploring the effects on the free circulation of ideas and the damage that can be done to an individual and to a community when this freedom is challenged. In 1957, Storm Center<\/em> was awarded the Prix de Chevalier da la Barre at the Cannes Film Festival, where it was cited as \u201cthis year\u2019s film which best helps freedom of expression and tolerance.\u201d<\/p>\n

Film Details
\nCountry: USA
\nLanguage: English
\nYear: 1956
\nRunning time: 85 minutes
\nFormat: 35mm
\nDirector: Daniel Taradash
\nScreenwriter: Daniel Taradash and Elick Moll
\nProducer: Julian Blaustein
\nCinematographer: Burnett Guffey
\nEditor: Willam A. Lyon
\nSource: Sony Repertory\/Swank Pictures<\/p>\n

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<\/a>Fahrenheit 451<\/strong>
\n<\/em>Sunday, September 23, 2:30 p.m.
\nFran\u00e7ois Truffaut, 1966, 112 minutes<\/p>\n

Based on the author Ray Bradbury\u2019s dystopian novel, this film is set in a future where the possession of books is considered a crime by the government whose squad of firefighters sets out to destroy the illicit literature with flamethrowers. Fahrenheit 451<\/em>, it is explained, is the temperature at which books are reduced to ashes. When fireman Guy Montag meets his neighbor Clarisse, he is introduced to an underground network of book collectors and others who flout the law in order to keep books alive in both page and memory.<\/p>\n

Print screens courtesy of the British Film Institute.<\/em><\/p>\n

Film Details
\nCountry: United Kingdom
\nLanguage: English
\nYear: 1966
\nRunning time: 112 minutes
\nFormat: 35mm
\nDirector: Fran\u00e7ois Truffaut
\nScreenwriter: Fran\u00e7ois Truffaut and Jean-Louis Richard
\nProducer: Lewis M. Allen
\nCinematographer: Nicolas Roeg
\nEditor: Thom Noble
\nSource: British Film Institute<\/p>\n

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