formerly Mad Cornish Projectionist.
Now in its 15th season, the Museum of Modern Art’s “To Save and Project” surveys significant film-restoration projects from archives around the world. Running Jan. 18 through Feb. 1, it’s also a primer on world cinema and an introduction to … Continued
A University of Wisconsin–Madison group has just published results from a six-year exploration of old, unstable film stock that nevertheless holds the oldest heritage of moving pictures. Source: Fire in a crowded theater? Nitrate film is crumbling as experts strive … Continued
Kamal Haasan was talking on the sidelines of the pre-cursor to the annual Film Preservation and Restoration workshop to be organised here from October 7-14 by the Film Heritage Foundation and Viacom18 in association with the International Federation of Film … Continued
Studios invested heavily in magnetic-tape storage for film archiving but now struggle to keep up with the technology Source: The Lost Picture Show: Hollywood Archivists Can’t Outpace Obsolescence – IEEE Spectrum
It all really started in Pune, last year, where Kamal Haasan was attending the closing ceremony of the Film Preservation and Restoration Workshop at the National Film Archives of India (NFAI). He had asked Shivendra Singh Dungarpur, the organiser of … Continued
When the renowned cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki began planning to shoot the wilderness drama The Revenant, he decided that to capture the stark, frozen beauty of a Canadian winter, he would use no artificial light, instead relying on sunlight, moonlight, and … Continued