Endless Matinee at the Lucas
Still from Ron Mann's Comic Book Confidential , 1988 The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art has released details on its inaugural film programming . Two 299-seat theaters, named for documentarian Robert Flaherty and montage pioneer Slavko Vorkapich, will be open throughout the day, offering a curated selection of films and shorts on a continuous basis. The goal is to allow visitors to experience film much as they do the rest of the collection. Museums have struggled to integrate film and video into their galleries. The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures' "Stories of Cinema: Introduction" is a fast-paced collage of short clips of 700-some films, running 16 minutes in all. Multiple clips run simultaneously on a big screen. The Lucas design is more conventional/respectful, showing films and shorts in full. The Robert Flaherty theater will emphasize documentaries (such as Flaherty's Nanook of the North , 1922) and will include works on narrative art and artists featured in...
