Brian Belak

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Favorite films

  • Daguerréotypes
  • Design for Living
  • A Man and His Dog Out for Air
  • Late Spring

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  • Eephus

  • Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music

  • Crossing Delancey

  • Metropolitan

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  • The Good Fairy

    The Good Fairy

    Pleased to have introduced this film at the Nitrate Picture Show in Rochester, NY. Intro notes below:

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    Out of the UCLA nitrate vaults comes tonight’s film, THE GOOD FAIRY (1935), directed by William Wyler, written by Preston Sturges, and starring Margaret Sullavan. 

    THE GOOD FAIRY capped Wyler’s period at Universal since his start in the silent era, though his greatest successes in directing wouldn’t come until the 1940s and beyond at other studios with titles like THE BEST YEARS…

  • Fallen Leaves

    Fallen Leaves

    Great film. It reminded me of Bresson's Diary of a Country Priest. 

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  • Rushmore

    Rushmore

    One time on a Latin test I couldn't remember the proper translation of a certain phrase, so instead I wrote "Sic transit gloria" and still received half credit.

  • Standard Gauge

    Standard Gauge

    “Here are some pieces of film that I think are interesting to look at.”