American Cinema Anniversary Blog-a-Thon.

"As announced a month or so ago, this is a blog-a-thon to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Andrew Sarris's The American Cinema: Directors and Directions 1929 - 1968, one of my personal favorite books on film and one of surpassing influence," writes Adam at Film at 11. "Starting this week (and hopefully beyond), you'll be seeing entries on directors since 1968 from all around the blogosphere." Because, as he wrote in February, the idea here is "to write up the next generation of The American Cinema by tackling the careers of auteurs since."

Via Peter Nellhaus, who contributes an entry on Lucky McKee. By the way, as a further sign of the book's persistent influence, this is similar to a project DK Holm has picked up and worked on now and then; see, for example, his entry on Gregory Hoblit - or for that matter, Lucky McKee.

Posted by dwhudson at April 14, 2008 7:22 AM