Kodak is Staying in the Film Business
By Ron Merk I know this sounds like an odd thing to report, almost like saying that McDonald’s is staying in the fast food business. The fact is that Kodak has been [...]
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Hard Time for Hard Drives
By Ron Merk I’m going to make this piece short and sweet. Well, maybe not sweet. As my readers know, I’ve been banging the drum loudly on the issue of film preservation [...]
Just a Few Words: Film Festival Expectations
By Ron Merk There’s a wonderful line in Francois Truffaut’s film, “Day for Night,” spoken by the director character, in which he talks about his great hopes [...]
Film Festival Checklist – Redux
By Ron Merk An article that I wrote in 2001 for Release Print, the magazine of the late Film Arts Foundation, has been reprinted here on Indieplex. It seems that very little [...]
Film IS History
By Ron Merk The title of this piece doesn’t mean to imply that film as a means of recording or saving history is no more, discarded and then replaced recently by [...]
Digi-Tell Me The Truth?
By Ron Merk There’s a rumor floating around that digital preservation is a real way of saving things that exist in the “real world” such as photos, sound recordings, [...]
The Edwardian Ball and World’s Faire – 2015
By Ron Merk January 16th and 17th mark the return of The Edwardian Ball and World’s Faire to San Francisco. Bigger and better than ever. If you’ve never attended this [...]
The Edwardian Ball and Edwardian World’s Faire – A Place of Enchantment
There are many events that deserve our attention, and that will appeal to the uniqueness in all of us. This is one of them. If you love Halloween or dressing up for the [...]
Not Always La Dolce Vita
By Ron Merk When we look up into the night sky and see a canopy of sparkles in the heavens, we may be seeing an illusion. Some of the stars that we see have long ago gone [...]
LOOKING – Second Season Premiere Has Them Cheering in the Aisles
By Ron Merk I was graciously invited by HBO, along with 1400 cheering fans to the 2nd season premiere of LOOKING. It was a star-studded affair complete with most of the cast [...]
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