April 26, 2024

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A New Film by Michael Maglaras Has Virtual Premiere This Week at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.

Kenneth Clark, 1969. Courtesy Getty Illustrations or photos.

The NGA is the ideal place for the American digital premiere of Michael’s amazing movie. His movie is magical and captures the essence of Clark’s very best visible accomplishment.

Connecticut-primarily based independent filmmaker Michael Maglaras of 217 Films announces with enjoyment that, starting today, his new movie “Civilisation and America” – celebrating the 50th anniversary of the initially American general public tv broadcast of Lord Kenneth Clark’s “Civilisation” – is possessing its digital premiere as a result of the auspices of the Countrywide Gallery of Artwork in Washington, D.C.

“It’s fitting that the American premiere of this movie should really just take place at the NGA,” stated Maglaras. “For it was the then NGA director J. Carter Brown who initially had the eyesight of screening all thirteen episodes of this monumental and groundbreaking BBC tv collection at the Countrywide Gallery of Artwork in 1969.”

Lord Kenneth Mackenzie Clark (1903-1983) was an eminent scholar, writer, arts administrator, tv government, and a person of the foremost lecturers and thinkers of his time. For People, he is finest remembered for his monumental accomplishment “Civilisation.”

“Civilisation and America” options important footage from the unique BBC Tv collection, as effectively as interviews with Lord Clark, James Stourton, and most notably intensive interview footage with Sir David Attenborough, who gave Clark the platform he needed at the BBC to develop what is arguably the very best movie collection on Western culture at any time developed.

James Stourton, the eminent English writer and the author of the definitive biography of Lord Clark, has stated, “The NGA is the ideal place for the American digital premiere of Michael’s amazing movie. His movie is magical and captures the essence of Clark’s very best visible accomplishment.”

Peggy Parsons, Director of Film at the Countrywide Gallery, has called Michael Maglaras’s movies “virtuoso filmmaking.”

Viewers can hook up with this no cost digital screening as a result of August 24 at: https://www.nga.gov/calendar/movie-programs/spring-2021/civilisation-the us.html

Terri Templeton, Govt Producer of 217 Films extra, “This movie celebrates and honors a person of the terrific communicators of the twentieth century, Lord Kenneth Clark. We have been happy to have the cooperation and involvement of the BBC and the Clark estate, and we are most grateful for their sort assistance.”

217 Films Web-site: http://www.two17films.com

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