Monday, January 01, 1996

January 1996, Los Angeles

6.1.1996 Sense and Sensibility (Ang Lee, 1995), Santa Monica
18.1.1996 The Jazz Singer (Alan Crosland, 1927), Robert Gitt, Studio City
+ The Jazz Singer trailer + Al Jolson: A Plantation Act (1926)
25.1.1996 Wonder Bar (Lloyd Bacon, US 1934), nitrate, UCLA Melnitz - notes ***½
+ The Miller's Daughter (Friz Freleng, US 1934) nitrate, **½, Chuck Jones contributed
+ Hearst Metrotone News Vol. 5, No. 264 (5/5/1934)
+ What, No Men? (Ralph Staub, US 1934) 22', Technicolor, nitrate, ***½
25.1.1996 The Singing Kid (1936), UCLA Melnitz, Charles Hopkins, guest: Cybill Jason
+ clip: You Are the Cure to All Ills
29.1.1996 TV doc: The American Experience: The Battle Over Citizen Kane (1996), TV PBS (KCET)