update: Summer 2010

by Steven on August 15, 2010

By Steven Ritz-Barr

QUIXOTE and FAUST available for purchase on www.classicsinminiature.com

This is a short and sweet ‘bonjour’ from the heart of France where I am presently researching JOAN OF ARC for the next volume of the Classics in Miniature film series. I expect a script by November and a film by end of 2011. These films take time to make, like writing a book, and I do enjoy ever minute of it—well, most every minute.

Recently, QUIXOTE screened at the Holon, Israel Puppet Festival and at the Prague festival in the Czech Republik. And this past spring we screened in San Francisco at the Arts Academy downtown, at UCLA, and at the Beverly Hills Film Festival.

We begin screening for the Spanish teachers in L.A. County at several venues beginning Dec. 2010 at the Santa Monica Main Public Library. Also at University of Cal, Santa Cruz, University of So. California, and the Cervantes Society Convention in the fall and early winter of 2010.

We were honored to receive this award at an American Puppet Festival this July: UNIMA citation of Excellence (Intl. Puppet organization), 2010.

QUIXOTE and FAUST on DVD are selling well, through our website and on Amazon. Please BUY IT ASAP so we can continue the Classics in Miniature adventure. So don’t be shy, BUY. BUY.  BUY.

Hope you are all enjoying the summer.

Cheers,

Steven

Don’t hesitate to write me at steven@classicsinminiature.com anytime

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QUIXOTE SIGHTINGS IN LOS ANGELES

by Steven on March 31, 2010

(Due to re-working of my website some of you may have received this message.  My apologies.)

Two upcoming screenings in the Los Angeles area:

April 16, 2010 Friday at 4pm J. Bridges Theatre, Melnitz Hall, UCLA

April 17, 2010 Saturday, Beverly Hills Film Festival, 11-1pm, Clarity Theatre, Beverly Hills, CA

(Most likely will sell out) buy tickets NOW on website:  http://www.beverlyhillsfilmfestival.com/gallery2010_sel_sort2.php?recordID=04-17 (6th film on list)

“I thought the film was a brilliant achievement. I liked the selection of the scenes, the little boy, the sheep, the Merchants, and most of all the Puppets- that’s for me the highlight— to see Puppets doing Puppets is just wonderful. The technical effects and the idea that Don Quixote himself comes to realize that he was his own enemy all along is really very clever. And to pull all that off in 30 minutes is just darn remarkable. Cervantes would have loved it. “

—DR. Howard Mancing, President,Cervantes Society of America
Purdue Professor

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QUIXOTE sighting … He rides again…

March 29, 2010

By Steven Ritz-Barr Recently,  QUIXOTE, the new film from Classics in Miniature, premiered  in Lafayette, Indiana to an exuberate crowd of over 500 students, professors, and community members of all ages thanks to our hosts at Purdue University. After over one year of constant work the 30 min. film now exists, along with a 20 [...]

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Le Classic

December 3, 2009

Seasonal Newsletter from CLASSICS  IN  MINIATURE Fall Nov.  2009   Vol. 1 Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of which is visible in a thousand different utterances of the creative mind, and is as various as nature herself. -Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Puppetry ARTS…is a personal, creative art [...]

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