The Backlight was launched to promote the Bijou Film Center in Richmond, Virginia, and to stimulate interest in good movies, in general. Shortly after the Biograph 45 party my affiliation with The Bijou ended and the regular posts here stopped. See the most recent post for more info. Now this blog's archive serves as a record of The Bijou's dreams and happenings, August 1, 2013 - February 11, 2017. Since then I've been out of the loop. -- F.T. Rea, editor.
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| One of many selfies shot by the mysterious street photographer Vivian Maier. |
“Finding Vivian Maier” is about a woman who worked as a nanny and made thousands of photographs, mostly of strangers, and then kept them hidden from the world until the negatives were acquired at an auction.Click here to read Lohmann's piece that ran in Thursday's (Feb. 5) Weekender section.
While collaborating on the 40th anniversary of the opening of Richmond’s Biograph Theatre for the James River Film Society in 2012, James Parrish and Terry Rea discussed the idea of bringing a “little cinema” to Richmond. “Little cinema” was an idea that formed in the 1920s, when Hollywood had made everything big — big screens, big theaters, longer films.
