para o @filmspot.pt.web.brid.gy: em 2025, Portugal acolheu 40 filmes rodados em película, mas continuamos sem ver cinema nesse suporte — não haverá mesmo, no nosso país, a iniciativa comercial que o possibilite? filmspot.pt/artigo/resum...

When the clock strikes midnight on January 1, creative works from 1930 & sound recordings from 1925 will enter the public domain in the US, like: 💄 Dizzy Dishes, first Betty Boop cartoon 🕵️♀️ First 4 Nancy Drew novels 🚂 The Little Engine That Could 🎩 Morocco 🍑 Georgia on My Mind and many more! 🧵👇

Jonathan Furmanski has been digitizing the battered, often unlabeled, relics of the International Videoletters, a feminist video exchange network that ran from 1975 to 1977. https://loom.ly/LvDOoow

#FilmRestoration www.filmcomment.com/blog/the-bes...

"plain folk." (folk horror, shot in Super 16mm, with a Brueghelian touch; will always be ready for that). #JustWatched 'Harvest' (2024, Athina Rachel Tsangari) #ShotOnFilm

a film walks into a cinema. the projectionist says, why the long running time?

it's a pity that you can't (or shouldn't 🤭) actually project this to an audience. #filmleaders #rcaindianhead #smpte #smpteleader #35mm #35mmfilm #projectonfilm #filmisnotdead

"Bet your bottom dollar you'll lose the blues in Chicago, Chicago" #JustWatched 'Roxie Hart' (1942, William A. Wellman) #35mm

Saw Peter Hujar’s Day last week and loved it, and I’m excited we got it on 35mm for a short run at @brattletheatre.bsky.social Fri-Tues! Shot on 16mm, there’s a lovely warmth and texture to this movie, evocative of the mid-70s setting, it’s gonna look so great on film

Adam Savage tours through the Paramount Pictures film archives, where Executive Director Chuck Woodfill shows us the many types of media inventoried and preserved for digitalization and restoration. https://loom.ly/JNapBWA

#projectonfilm www.in70mm.com/presents/195...

looking like an 80's college girl – leader lady found in a 35mm print of 'The Man I Love' (1929, William A. Wellman). #leaderladies #themanilove1929 #williamawellman #35mm #35mmfilm #filmleaders #projectonfilm #filmisnotdead

"Displaying both the most extreme artifice in self-presentation and the most authentic emotion in performance, she exemplifies Hollywood’s paradoxes in concentrated form." www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

always a classic. #nowspinning #theloniousmonk #undergroundtheloniusmonk #columbiarecords #jazz #vinyl

the bureaucracies of memory. #JustWatched 'O Agente Secreto' (aka 'The Secret Agent', 2025, Kleber Mendonça Filho)

The heads and tails of film reels, sometimes wildly etched into, sometimes hastily written on, sometimes graciously labeled, always feel like private discoveries we make on the inspection table or while threading up. Here is beautiful Reel 4 leader from Kurosawa’s Drunken Angel.

'One Battle After Another' will never be my PTA's favourite film. but I will love the technical wizardry ("long live VistaVision!" – and that Jonny Greenwood score!) of this sequence for as long as I live. youtube.com/watch?v=h9Wh...

'Eyes Wide Shut' (1999, Stanley Kubrick) Top: Old Blu-ray Middle: New Criterion Bottom: 35mm scan

#filmsky #moviesky #filmnoir #Noirvember Robert Ryan #BOTD as Earl Pfeiffer, a film projectionist in, Clash By Night, 1952

about last night projection (plus, as a gift, my hands recording it). Portuguese Experimental Cinema: The Cinema of the Artists, 1960s and 70s 'Sem Título II' (1973, Luís Noronha da Costa) 16mm . colour . 1.37 : 1 (18 fps) #cinematecaportuguesa #16mm #projectionbooth #projectonfilm #filmisnotdead

Tatsuya Nakadai (1932 - 2025)

"Barbara Stanwyck as Joan Gordon" 'The Purchase Price' (1932, William A. Wellman) www.cinemateca.pt/Programacao.... 35mm . colour . 1.37 : 1 #thepurchaseprice1932 #williamawellman #barbarastanwyck #cinematecaportuguesa #35mm #35mmfilm #eastmanfilm #projectonfilm #filmisnotdead

"The collection of film includes Terry's personal 16mm copies of the Python feature films, a 35mm print of his film adaptation of The Wind In The Willows (1996) and early sketches from series including The Late Show (BBC, 1966-67)."

small (gauge) pleasures.

social malaise. #JustWatched 'Entroncamento' (aka 'Night Passengers', 2025, Pedro Cabeleira)

#ShotOnFilm #16mm youtube.com/watch?v=Rzp8...

pain and punishment. #JustWatched 'Sono yo no tsuma' (aka 'That Night's Wife', 1930, Yasujirō Ozu)

Florence Vidor and a cue mark. 'Chinatown Nights' (1929, William A. Wellman) #florencevidor #williamawellman #chinatownnights1929 #cinematecaportuguesa #35mm #35mmfilm #cuemarks #projectonfilm #filmisnotdead

"You belong to Chinatown now. No decent woman ever goes out of here unless on feast days." #JustWatched 'Chinatown Nights' (1929, William A. Wellman) #CinematecaPortuguesa #35mm

"you're supposed to go too far." #JustWatched 'Chain Reactions' (2024, Alexandre O. Philippe)

Takashi Miike, addressing 'The Texas Chain Saw Massacre', in 'Chain Reactions' (2024, Alexandre O. Philippe).

long-exposure photography shot on 16 mm film (warning: strobe lighting effects). Takashi Ito is my new experimental cinema power animal. youtube.com/watch?v=YFjU...

VistaVision 101 www.youtube.com/watch?v=YX9e...

horror-thon galore. #JustWatched 'Popcorn' (1991, Mark Herrier)

a Simplex movie projector, in 'Popcorn' (1991, Mark Herrier & Alan Ormsby) #NowWatching

#RIP Peter Watkins youtube.com/watch?v=oBMv...

"love is not eternal, but the days of misery are long." #JustWatched 'A halál után' (aka 'After Death', 1920, Alfréd Deésy) #Horroctober

pure witchcraft. #JustWatched 'Noidan kirot' (aka 'Curses of the Witch', 1927, Teuvo Puro) #Horroctober

"Lost in translation: A classic film’s soul." consequence.net/2025/10/wiza...

1.43:1 or 1.90:1?

and... here... we... go...

an incomplete John Ford is always better than a lost John Ford. #JustWatched 'The Scarlet Drop' (1918, John Ford)

Happy 20th Anniversary of #WDAVH2025! Created for the 2007 World Day for Audiovisual Heritage celebration, this short includes footage from archives around the world. https://loom.ly/84IAuOI

it was a honour to meet Juan Carlos last year, during the Projectionists’ Workshop at Cinemateca Portuguesa. a true lover of his craft, whose experience is only surpassed by his passion about film projection on film. a most deserved hommage to "el último operador"! 👏 www.larazon.es/madrid/ultim...

#AudiovisualHeritageDay www.unesco.org/en/days/audi...