Sometimes it seems that male chauvinism can most simply be explained as compensation for an undeniable female superiority in all things (save perhaps football). Thus we have Alice Guy Blanché (1873-1968), a cosmopolitan young woman who went to work for film pioneer Léon Gaumont in Paris at age 21, made her own first film in 1896 and proceeded to write scripts, direct and produce films over a 20-year career. After her start in France, she got married (adopting her husband’s surname) and moved to the U.S., where she founded her own film studio, Solax, in Fort Lee, N.J. in 1910.
Not only is she obscure, but she is also that good, the legendary equation, as is proven by the film retrospective now unspooling at the Whitney Museum of American Art. A five-year labor-of-love by curator-at-large Joan Simon, the show presents about 80 films in five hour-long programs that repeat throughout the day, from 11 am to 5 pm.
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Not only is she obscure, but she is also that good, the legendary equation, as is proven by the film retrospective now unspooling at the Whitney Museum of American Art. A five-year labor-of-love by curator-at-large Joan Simon, the show presents about 80 films in five hour-long programs that repeat throughout the day, from 11 am to 5 pm.
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- bill 11-17-2009 1:19 pm