Austin shows its affection for classic cinema and the lovely NINOTCHKA (1939)
Dir. Ernst Lubitsch
Alamo Ritz, 01/31/10, 6:30pm
Congratulations are due to the Alamo Drafthouse and my co-editor pal Daniel Metz for the wildly successful first installment of their new series Cinema Club. I’m not writing to talk about the discussion led by Daniel, Alamo owner Tim League, and University of Texas professor Charles Ramirez- Berg, other [...]
Getting some press in the Austin Chronicle
My series with Lars, Cinema Club, got a little blurb in this week’s Austin Chronicle. Even my little name got in there. Here’s what writer Kimberly Jones says about me: “Nilsen calls “co-captain” Daniel Metz, a University of Texas Master of Arts candidate in film studies, instrumental in connecting the Alamo programmers with [...]
Cross-blog Traffic
Hey everybody,
I blogged on Alamo site today about how last’s nights film The Apartment is related to Ninotchka, the first film in our new series, Cinema Club. I am pretty excited that in less than a month, I’ll be up on stage introducing Charles Ramirez Berg as he introduces the great Lubitsch classic written [...]
