This year’s “Days of Silent Film,” held October 1-8 in Pordenone, Italy, was very much a mixed bag, including canonical works, like Leopold Jessner’s Backstairs (1923), Chaplin and Keaton, previously lost Italian silents, programs of early cinema, the Th
On October 7, 2011, we premiered the first fully timed second answer print of Daughters of the Dust. Below is an abridged version of my opening remarks:
After almost three years of intense preparation, our film exhibition program “L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema” is nearing completion. The program is printed, our catalog at the printers.
On the first day of “The Reel Thing XXVII” in August at the Academy Film Library, participants were treated to a sneak preview of a “work-in-progress,” a 2K digital restoration of The Loves of Pharaoh (Das Weib des Pharao, 1921).
I intuitively knew as soon as I saw this still from Haile Gerima’s Ashes & Embers (1982) that it had to be our signature image for the Archive’s fall program at the Billy Wilder Theater, “L.A.
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