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Film Registry adds Reichert, Klein doc
Dayton filmmakers and Wright State University faculty members Julia Reichert and Jim Klein’s first work, the documentary “Growing Up Female” (1971), is one of just 25 films added to the National Film Registry.
Others selected from more than 2,200 nominees this year included “Bambi,” “Forrest Gump,” “Porgy and Bess,” “Norma Rae” and “Silence of the Lambs.”
Created by an act of Congress in 1988, the registry names 25 motion pictures each year that are deemed culturally, historically or aesthetically significant” and worthy of preservation by the Library of Congress.
Filmed in Ohio in the spring of 1970, “Growing Up Female” profiles six females, ages 4 to 34, examining the limits of their lives and choices in the United States at the dawn of the modern women’s liberation movement.
Reichert was 23. Klein was 20. Both were students at Antioch College. They went on to co-direct feature documentaries “Union Maids” and “Seeing Red,” both of which were nominated for Academy Awards.
Klein also made “Letter to the Next Generation” and “Taken for a Ride,” which screened on the national PBS series “P.O.V.” Reichert co-directed “A Lion in the House,” which won a primetime Emmy Award, and the documentary “The Last Truck,” which was nominated for an Oscar.
Growing Up Female,” which was filmed in black and white on 16mm, launched Reichert and Klein’s independent film cooperative New Day Films, which now includes more than 100 filmmakers across the country.
Other films in the national registry, which Librarian of Congress James H. Billington described as “cinematic treasures,” include “Citizen Kane,” “Casablanca” and “2001: A Space Odyssey.” For a complete list of 2011 inductees, go to www.loc.gov/today/pr/2011/11-240.html
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By Not A Fan
December 29, 2011 12:42 AM | Link to this
Jim and Julia have done some good work, but I always thought their first effort was a waste of film. Never understood why it was so well-received.
By Mothers of Invention
December 29, 2011 7:05 AM | Link to this
I suggest Jim and Julia access the Dayton/Montgomery County web site and review all of the inventions that have come out of Dayton. Flight? Cash registers? Electric car starters? Leaded gasoline? Pop top cans?……the list goes on and on. They could then do a “Forest Gump” type movie, explaining all of the brilliance (inventions)that have come out of the Miami Valley…and show the stupidity, ignorance, and malaise that now infests it.
By The Old Cold Warrior
December 29, 2011 4:33 PM | Link to this
I guess we all have to like dykes and feminazi lesbian-liberation propaganda if we be PC, unlike me. “Emma and Elvis” was so bad and boring that it wasn’t mentioned. I have been unable to see Leon Harrison, in it and in his extraordinary extra performance at the Southern Belle bar, from a decade or so ago, like ya know. This movie was so bad that it didn’t even make it onto VHS, I guess, much less be reproduced and distributed for rental. Can we see it on DVD?