The first half of the "Disruptive Directors" series, devoted to the director Ken Russell, ends with "Song of Summer," about the composer Frederick Delius, which screens Thursday through next Sunday and Nov. 23-25.
Rebel With a Cause On Sunday, the Cinema Arts Center on Park Avenue in Huntington will offer an afternoon devoted to film directors who made their mark in 1990's.
Other studios, notably Warner Brothers with Stanley Kubrick and Universal with Alfred Hitchcock, have produced collections devoted to single directors, but no previous effort has matched what Fox has put into this impressive undertaking.
Individual discs are devoted to successive music directors: Koussevitzky, Pierre Monteux, Charles Munch, Erich Leinsdorf, William Steinberg and Mr. Ozawa (two CD's).
All the restorations were carried out with the participation of associations devoted to the films' directors, and some were supervised by Vincenzo Verzini, a film technician who worked on the original productions.
In a special section devoted to documentaries by directors better known for fiction, Masahiro Shinoda's 1975 film "The Ondeko-Za on Sado" was a remarkable study of a group of young people who dropped out of modern society to devote their lives to the art of Japanese drumming.
In recent years, the promotion budgets of major cigarette companies have been disproportionately devoted to menthols, said Gregory N. Connolly, director of tobacco control research at the Harvard School of Public Health.
The current exhibition begins with a small display devoted to John Cotton Dana, who, as director of the Newark Museum from its founding in 1909 to 1929, oversaw the collection of many of the works in the show.
(Holden) Film Series American Gagsters: Great Comedy Teams (Friday through Thursday, through Sept. 17) BAMcinématek begins a five-week, 50-film series (with all but one title in 35 millimeter) ostensibly devoted to "the greatest actor-director partnerships in American comedy," though it looks more like a pretty good excuse to show a lot of funny movies.
Sharon is a director devoted to exploring the interdisciplinary possibilities of opera.
