Il Cinema Ritrovato 2022 Special dispatch: Il Cinema Ritrovato is back, and all in person! People around the world are returning to the city bustling with excitement. A reporter sent from Reel-to-reel is now in Bologna!This year there are also some selections from Asia: newly restored Labourer's Love (1922), one of the earliest surviving films from China premiered a century ago; Ebrahim Golestan’s early documentary A Fire (1961), Cheshmeh (1972),…
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Nitrate Picture Show 2022 The Nitrate Picture Show returns and opens at the George Eastman Museum today. Watching archival nitrate prints projected in the Dryden Theatre, one of the few venues in the world equipped to exhibit highly flammable nitrate film is such a privileged experience.Nitrate film is renowned for its breath-taking images. The higher silver salt content in nitrate stock made richer blacks and whites, and shimmering grey tones.…
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Orphan Film Symposium 2022 The symposium is a biennial event that brings together people from different aspects devoted to saving, studying, and screening neglected audio-visual heritage. The 2022 edition focuses on ‘counter-archives’, by which the organiser means to invoke a disposition toward ‘orphan films’ that foregrounds not just abandoned materials but also stories, themes, and peoples often underrepresented, absent, or silenced by historical struggles.Photo credit and details: https://wp.nyu.edu/orphanfilm/ 相關新聞 Facebook…
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Cannes Classics 2022 Jean Eustache’s The Mother and the Whore (1972) will be the grand opening to the section! Satyajit Ray's The Adversary (1970), Glauber Rocha’s Black God, White Devil (1964) and Philippine director Mike De Leon’s Itim (1976), as well as the documentary on Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman by Ethan Hawke are all eagerly awaited!Details: https://www.festival-cannes.com/en/infos-communiques/communique/articles/cannes-classics-2022?fbclid=IwAR1LTJxKZBdqgxYsHabqg1R0qiS37r0P3Zy9Qe1CJA2AenFQiYTnOjj-MyM Related News Facebook Instagram Youtube Twitter Linkedin
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EYE International Conference 2022 The conference will take place in Amsterdam, from 29 to 31 May and be devoted to the topic 'Global Audiovisual Archiving: Exchange of Knowledge and Practices'. Participants are invited to two annual side events: 'Meet The Archive', and the 'Open House at the EYE Collection Centre'. The organiser offers a hybrid conference format to accommodate overseas participants as well!Details: https://www.eyefilm.nl/en/programme/eye-international-conference-2022/563352Registration: https://kaarten.eyefilm.nl/eye/en/flow_configs/webshop-streams-specials/steps/start/show/670251 相關新聞 Facebook Instagram Youtube Twitter…
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San Francisco Silent Film Festival 2022 The San Francisco Silent Film Festival is back finally! The festival was first held in 1996 and is one of the most important silent film festivals in the world. The opening film would be Erich von Stroheim’s Foolish Wives (1922), of which the restored version has kept the audience waiting for two years! There are also seven brand new restorations carried out by the festival.Details:…
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Media City Film Festival 2022 Media City Film Festival was inaugurated in 1994 to showcase art films and digital arts by artists. To celebrate the 25th edition, the films are open for free screening worldwide till 1 March. We’d like to recommend three shorts by Armenian Maestro Sergei Parajanov, Kiev Frescoes (1966), Hakob Hovnatanyan (1967) and Arabesques on Pirosmani Theme (1986). The films were restored in 4K by Fixafilm within the framework of the…
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Nederlands Silent Film Festival 2022 From Thursday 13 to Sunday 16 January, the Nederlands Silent Film Festival presents five beautiful, touching and hilarious silent films accompanied with live music via livestream.One of the focuses of this edition will be on female artists and crew during the silent film period. With work of Germaine Dulac, Henny Porten and Mabel Normand. Anke Brouwers will talk about her new book Mooi zijn en…
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Il Cinema Ritrovato 2021 Here comes another edition of the Il Cinema Ritrovato! The festival opening will be held next Tuesday but there will be some screenings at the Cinema Lumière and Piazza Maggiore starting from this week. Apart from the regular programmes, the Cineteca di Bologna is co-organising a thematic programme of Tomijiro Komiya collection with the National Film Archive of Japan. Tomijiro Komiya collected mainly European films, included…
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71st Berlinale Retrospective The 71st Berlinale will be launched today with an Industry Event while majority of the 2021 selected films can only be seen by the public in summer. For this year’s Retrospective, a programme featuring three different American actresses namely ‘No Angels – Mae West, Rosalind Russell & Carole Lombard’, includes 27 productions made between 1932 and 1943, the heyday of the screwball comedy. The films were chosen…
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