Film Culture Loses Two Innovators - The Current 🔗 📽 🇺🇸 🇵🇱 🇨🇿 🎥

Over the past couple of weeks, we’ve lost two innovators whose impact on film culture has been all but immeasurable. Ben Barenholtz, the programmer, distributor, and producer widely credited for having launched the midnight-movie craze of the 1970s, passed away on June 27 at the age of eighty-three. And Milos Stehlik, the cofounder and artistic director of the Chicago arts center Facets Multimedia, died on Saturday. He was seventy. Coincidentally, both men immigrated to the United States from Central Europe, Barenholtz from Poland by way of Austria in the late 1940s and Stehlik from Czechoslovakia in the early 1960s.