MISSING MOVIE MONDAY: Where is Lena's Dreams (1997)? This celebrated drama starring Marlene Forte about a Cuban-American actress facing a mid-life crisis in NYC won 5 festivals but is now lost! Help us save this vital 90s indie film! 🎬 #MissingMovies #LenasDreams #FilmPreservation

#FoundFilmFriday! The influential #ABetterTomorrow Trilogy is back! John Woo's career-defining action saga gets a stunning new restoration from Shout Studios Relive the iconic Hong Kong crime classic that set the stage for The Killer and Hard Boiled. Must-see for action enthusiasts! #HongKongAction

#MissingMoviesMonday Alert! Help us find THE BIG DIS (1989)! This $8.5k indie debut by Eriksen & O'Brien, hailed at Sundance, is MISSING. Shot on 16mm, it's a vital piece of '80s cinema. Have a print? Know its location? Let us know! #LostFilm #TheBigDis

#FoundFilmFriday! Luis Buñuel's once-banned classic VIRIDIANA (1961) is newly restored in 4K! Starring Silvia Pinal, the sacrilegious masterpiece opens at Film Forum on November 14th from Janus Films and available on Criterion Collection. Go see this saved cinema! #Viridiana #Buñuel #FoundFilm

FOUND FILM FRIDAY! Missing Movies celebrates the stunning 4K restoration of Arturo Ripstein's 1996 dark masterpiece, DEEPCRIMSON by The Criterion Collection The director's cut of this true-crime anti-romance is back and more wickedly perverse than ever. #FilmRestoration

Found Film Friday success! 🎉 Nick Nolte's WEEDS (1987) is back! Unavailable for streaming & stuck on old DVD, this "missing movie" is getting a Director Approved 2K HD Blu-Ray restoration! Available to purchase now! #FoundFilmFriday #WeedsMovie #NickNolte #FilmRestoration #MissingMovies

🚨 MISSING MOVIE MONDAY 🚨 Chantal Akerman's semi-autobiographical gem, PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG GIRL AT THE END OF THE 60S IN BRUSSELS, is a tender, essential film that remains too hard to find! We need more access to this crucial work about youth & desire. #ChantalAkerman #MissingMovies #WomensCinema

Celebrating #HispanicHeritageMonth on #FoundFilmFriday! We're spotlighting the newly restored Enamorada by Mexican master Emilio Fernández. A timeless classic now preserved for new audiences. #MissingMovies #Enamorada #FilmRestoration #HispanicHeritage

MISSING MOVIES MONDAY! We need your help finding Eli Cohen's powerful 1991 drama #TheQuarrel! It features brilliant performances by Saul Rubinek & R.H. Thomson as two Holocaust survivors arguing over faith & God. Where is this award-winning film? #LostFilm #FilmTwitter

FOUND FILM FRIDAY! The "holy grail" of #JamesDean finds: Campbell SoundStage: Life Sentence (1953)! The 16mm reel was mislabeled for decades until the @paleycenter.bsky.social#JamesDeandiscovered the lost TV drama. Now, TCM subscribers can watch this incredible rarity! #FoundFilm #TCM #MissingMovies

It's #FoundFilmFriday! 🎉 Our pick: the incredible 4K restoration of Michelangelo Frammartino's Il Dono! This atmospheric film about life in rural Calabria is returning to theaters this July. Don't miss experiencing this beautifully restored piece of cinema! #IlDono #FilmRevival

#FoundFilmFriday Ready to see where it all began for @TheSlyStallone? 🎬 His first starring film, "Rebel: Director's Cut," hits select cinemas & on-demand TOMORROW, June 6th, in stunning 4K! Who's watching? #SylvesterStallone #ClassicFilm #MovieRelease #GIANTPictures

#FoundFilmFriday - Peter Greenaway's "The Belly of an Architect" (1987) is FINALLY on Blu-ray from @VinegarSyndrome! Brian Dennehy in Rome, stunning visuals. A must-own for Greenaway fans! 🎬 #PeterGreenaway #VinegarSyndrome #4KRestoration #ArtHouseCinema #FilmPreservation

#FoundFilmFriday! Alan Rudolph's "Choose Me" (last disc release 2001) is back! @criterion released a beautiful blu-ray/UHD. Great for all #IndieFilm fans. #FoundFilmFriday #ChooseMe #FilmPreservation @MissingMoviesOrg

#FoundFilmFriday! Sean Baker's "Prince of Broadway" (2008) is back! Fresh from his Oscar win for "Anora," Baker's early gem gets a stunning 4K restoration, out on @Criterion April 29, 2025. Don't miss this raw, powerful indie masterpiece! #PrinceOfBroadway #FilmRestoration

Missing Movie Monday's Selection: Dopamine (2003) A vital piece of indie film history is missing. "Dopamine" (2003), the 1st Sundance STEM film award winner, is lost to streaming. Let's bring it back! #FindDopamine #MissingMovies #FilmPreservation

Hear the music of Purple Rain like never before! Prince's film hits select AMC Theaters in Dolby Atmos for one night only, March 5th. Grab your tickets now: ow.ly/26t450V2T2i #PurpleRain #Prince #MissingMovies #DolbyAtmos

Missing Movies Monday: What happened to the film adaptation of Sylvia Plath's "The Bell Jar"? This haunting story seems to have vanished. Let's discuss this missing movie! #MMM #MissingMoviesMonday #TheBellJar #SylviaPlath #MissingFilms

#FoundFilmFriday! A lost classic returns! Drugstore Cowboy gets the Criterion treatment on UHD/Blu-ray! Order your copy now from @Criterion - ow.ly/wWje50V2Wvb. #DrugstoreCowboy #GusVanSant #CriterionCollection #CultClassic #90sMovies #IndependentFilm #MovieRelease

#MissingMoviesMonday: Michael Schultz's "Together For Days" (1972), starring Clifton Davis, Lois Chiles & a debuting Samuel L. Jackson, has vanished! This interracial romance with a rumored shocking ending needs your help to be found. #LostFilms #FilmPreservation

#FoundFilmFriday! Zeinabu irene Davis' "Compensation" (1999), newly restored in 4K, hits the big screen! A romance inspired by Paul Laurence Dunbar, this gem from a leading voice of the #LARebellion was recently added to the National Film Registry. #BlackFilm #FilmHistory

Sam Elliott shines as the golden boy lifeguard facing a crossroads in #Lifeguard. This classic film, newly restored in 4K and releasing on February 11th, is a must-watch for fans of '70s cinema. #MissingMovies #FoundFilmFriday #FFF #SamElliott #ClassicCinema #MovieRecommendation #FilmRestoration

#GIRLSTOWN 30 YR ANNIVERSARY 4K RESTORATION returns to theaters! Restored after being lost in a corporate vault for 25 years! Director #JimMcKay, with help from Universal & @IndieCollect, brings this 90s gem back to the big screen. NYC premiere at @IFCCenter TODAY, Jan 17th!

Former BFI and LoC head David Francis wrote an impassioned statement on the firing of the Academy 16. www.change.org/p/to-the-amp...

Come celebrate IndieCollect's festival which will run December 6-9 at Laemmle's Monica Film Center in Santa Monica with additional screenings December 13-14 at the Academy Museum's Ted Mann Theater. www.indiewire.com/news/festiva...

Make a donation of $25 or more to @missingmovies.bsky.social and get a link to watch one of three "lost" films. #filmsky 📽️

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Rare Japanese movie prints at risk of destruction Tokyo Laboratory forced to scrap up to 20,000 films due to quirk of copyright law. asia.nikkei.com/Life-Arts/Ar...

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