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The schedule is up for THE LADY AT 100, my affectionate variation on the Columbia Pictures retrospective that Ehsan Khoshbakht curated for the Locarno Film Festival last summer. 30 Columbia bangers April 16 through May 24. www.moma.org/calendar/fil...

Playing daily at MoMA through Feb. 12. The most formally accomplished film you are likely to see this year.

Rob Tregenza has worked with Godard, Béla Tarr, Alex Cox … His new film, THE FISHING PLACE, sees its North American premiere tonight @ MoMA — www.criterion.com/current/post...

Manohla Dargis on ‘The Fishing Place,’ a new film by Rob Tregenza (TALKING TO STRANGERS). At MoMA through Feb. 12. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/m...

Prepared something special at MoMA with @davekehr.bsky.social. Q&As with Jerry Schatzberg this Friday (7 pm) for Puzzle of a Downfall Child & Scarecrow on February 8, 4 pm.

Ben Kenigsberg on MoMAFilm's restoration-in-progess of Chaplin's WWI comedy SHOULDER ARMS. Screens Thursday at 7 pm. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/m...

Whenever someone writing about Westerns uses some variation on the phrase, "the white hats vs the black hats," I stop reading. This has never been standard in the genre, even in the serials & B-Westerns. If you said that shit in front of John Ford, he'd throw your ass out of his movie screening:

Released at the height of the 1918 pandemic, Chaplin's SHOULDER ARMS still broke box office records. Here's the Strand boasting that "New Yorkers took their lives in their hands" to pack the theater "all week." New @MoMAFilm resto plays 7pm Thurs.

On this day, it's important to remember that the Oscar statue was likely modeled after Mexican-Kickapoo filmmaker & actor Emilio Fernandez (aka, Gen. Mapache in The Wild Bunch)

Last chance for TSAP's sleeper of the year, today at 4:30.

Interesting take here from Eric.

A Fox trade ad from 1929, looking back on their last full year of silent films: FOUR SONS and MOTHER MACREE by John Ford, STREET ANGEL and 7th HEAVEN by Frank Borzage, RED DANCE and IN OLD ARIZONA by Raoul Walsh, AIR CIRCUS and FAZIL by Howard Hawks, and FOUR DEVILS by F.W. Murnau. Not too shoddy.

Hoping they'll make some DCPs, and this isn't just a streaming proposition.

David Schwartz on a real sleeper in this year's @MoMAFilm preservation festival, the unclassifiable ROSAURA AT 10 O'CLOCK. Mario Soffici’s 1958 film begins as a folksy comedy and ends on the far side of noir. 6:30 Mon/4:30 Fri. www.screenslate.com/articles/ros...

Thanks to Katarina Docalovich for this fine account of Alberto Cavalcanti's rare Brazilian comedy A REAL WOMAN, which screens today and Thurs., Jan 16 in TSAP, @MoMAFilm's annual preservation festival. www.screenslate.com/articles/rea...

And here’s a (roughly) chronological walk through the program ! www.criterion.com/current/post...

TO SAVE AND PROJECT, MoMA's annual festival of preserved films, starts tonight and continues through Jan. 30. www.moma.org/calendar/fil...

A nice BTS still from 7th HEAVEN, with director Frank Borzage horsing around with character actor Albert Gran. An upgraded restoration opens MoMA's preservation festival, TO SAVE AND PROJECT, Thurs. Jan. 9. www.moma.org/calendar/fil...

New NitrateVille Radio episode! Dave Kehr on MoMA's To Save and Project (including Raskolnikow from 1923), Thomas Christensen on the Copenhagen Silent Film Festival, and the authors of Moguls: The Lives and Times of Hollywood Pioneers Nicholas and Joseph Schenck. www.nitrateville.com/viewtopic.ph...

Next week brings us To Save and Project: The 21st MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation, programmed this year by the mighty @davekehr.bsky.social. Opening night Jan. 9 is a new restoration of 7TH HEAVEN. I wrote about this Frank Borzage masterpiece in 2018: silentfilm.org/seventh-heav...

A stone cold masterpiece!

Here's a statement from the Executive Committe of FIAF (the International Federation of Film Archives) concerning the recent dismissal of eight senior employees from the Academy Film Archive. Spoiler alert: they are not in favor of it. www.fiafnet.org/pages/Commun...

We're thrilled to be premiering our restoration of Pittsburgh filmmaker Billy Jackson's short, WE ARE UNIVERSAL, at To Save and Project next year! A little clip from the film, which features Black artists and thinkers like late greats Nikki Giovanni and Quincy Jones:

The schedule is up for MoMA's annual festival of film preservation, TO SAVE AND PROJECT. Organized by yours truly this year, with the invaluable help of Cindi Rowell. Starts Jan. 9 with our upgraded restoration of Frank Borzage's silent masterpiece, 7th HEAVEN. www.moma.org/calendar/fil...

Francis Ford (mysterious older brother of John Ford) loved mixing his real life into his films. In this jewel thief caper (1913, 1917 reissue), the detectives caught him by matching his ring to his monographed cane. Ford's grandson has the ring.

This is cool: The 35mm camera that Eduard Tissé used to shoot Sergei Eisenstein's films from STRIKE to ALEXANDER NEVSKY has been donated to the Cinematheque Française by Tissé's granddaughter, Eleanora.

It isn't unusual for important late career work to be ignored or misunderstood, but it's still painful to watch what's happening to Robert Zemeckis's HERE, a film of great formal invention and emotional power. It's screening at MoMA Dec. 29; here's a link to my blurb. www.moma.org/calendar/eve...

They aren't promoting it for some reason, but that is indeed the newly restored, substantially different pre-censorship version of Frank Borzage's 1933 MAN'S CASTLE on the Criterion Channel -- a masterpiece now even masterpiecier. @criterionchannl www.criterionchannel.com/pre-code-col...

A handsome insert poster for a lost Allan Dwan feature from 1925, shot between Gloria Swanson vehicles at Paramount's Astoria Studios. I'd love to see this one for the b-roll alone.

a terrific new archival find, an article about Francis Ford, from Photoplay magazine Feb 1914, which discusses his three years of directing experience. yay!

🍗Here’s a festive Fleischer Toon for the holiday! Hope you have a great one🍗 youtu.be/C1QIufjfk6Q?... #FleischerStudios

Excellent piece by Jim Hemphill on an excellent film by Robert Zemeckis. www.indiewire.com/news/general...

A nice three-sheet for the newly discovered 1918 John Ford film, THE SCARLET DROP.

OK this is getting weird.

Frank Borzage (at the top of the pyramid, next to George E. Stone) with his cast and crew on the Paris sewer set of 7th HEAVEN (1927). Who else can you recognize?

It's getting hard to breathe over on the tweeter. How's the weather around here?