Critical Writing Index

1985 Los Angeles International Film Exposition

by Peter Broderick

Afterimage, Summer 1985, v. 13, no. 1, p. 5

Review of the 1985 Filmex Festival with descriptions of 9 documentaries and 2 features which, in the writer’s point of view were outstanding. Broderick observes the healthy state of documentary filmmaking and suggests that a renaissance may be underway.

ITEM 1985.065 – available for viewing in the Research Centre

Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited

The South – Victor Erice

Memoirs of Prison – Nelson Pereira dos Santos

28 UP – Michael Apted

Streetwise – Martin Bell

Streetwise – Mary Ellen Mark

Streetwise – Cheryl McCall

Silent Pioneers – Lucy Winer

Before Stonewall – Greta Schiller

The Times of Harvey Milk – Robert Epstein

Private Practices: the Story of a Sex Surrogate – Kirby Dick

Artie Shaw: Time Is All You've GOt – Brigitte Berman

Samuel Beckett: Silence to Silence – Sean O Mordha

Far from Poland – Jill Godmilow