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  • "As if Quentin Tarantino's recent Los Angeles Grindhouse Festival 2007 wasn't enough, the America Cinematheque is ready to shine a little more light on that much-hashed-over golden age of American movies, the 70s," writes Dennis Cozzalio.

    GreenCine Daily: Fests and events, 5/11. 2007

  • During the First Temple era, the goat for Azazel was thrown down from the Temple on Yom Kippur into the Valley of Ben Hinnom Gei Ben Hinnom, by the Cinematheque, which is also where temple cults to Moloch were built.

    Hell is Other Places - Danya Ruttenberg 2005

  • I have been very friendly with the great folks at the American Cinematheque over the years.

    Steven Peros: Creating the Heaven and the Earth... and Footprints Steven Peros 2011

  • That's the question that has Mel Gibson, Jamie Foxx and Garry Shandling stumped in a roast video that played before Downey was honored with the American Cinematheque Award last month.

    VIDEO: Mel Gibson, Jamie Foxx and Garry Shandling Brainstorm a Tribute for Robert Downey Jr. 2011

  • I have been very friendly with the great folks at the American Cinematheque over the years.

    Steven Peros: Creating the Heaven and the Earth... and Footprints Steven Peros 2011

  • He then got involved in the city's underground movie scene, becoming manager of the Film-Makers' Cinematheque, the home of underground cinema, in 1965, where his mandate was to produce a festival that expanded the form of cinema.

    John Brockman: the man who runs the world's smartest website 2012

  • Russell — whose films included 1980's Altered States and 1987's Gothic — was honored in 1995 by the American Cinematheque with a retrospective of his work called Shock Value.

    Director Ken Russell Dies at 84 2011

  • Despite their profound impact on contemporary cinema and their limited number—he made only one short and 13 features—Bresson's films have often been frustratingly inaccessible in the U.S. On Friday, a series organized by James Quandt and the TIFF Cinematheque in Toronto will open at New York's Film Forum, kicking off a North American tour that will bring his work to more than a dozen cities in the U.S. and Canada.

    Salvation at the Forum Kristin M. Jones 2012

  • While being honored with the American Cinematheque Award, the Iron Man star pleaded with Hollywood to "forgive" Gibson, his former Air America co-star, who was in attendance to present him with the award, according to Deadline.com.

    Robert Downey Jr. to Hollywood: Forgive Mel Gibson 2011

  • Back in the 1960s, artists living sub rosa in SoHo and desperate to protect their homes gathered on the ground floor of 80 Wooster Street, then Jonas Mekas's Cinematheque.

    Roslyn Bernstein: Bye Bye BID? SoHo Fights Back Roslyn Bernstein 2011

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