What Does Film Preservation Mean To You?: As of this writing, Friday morning February 12, 2010, 8:50 a.m. Eastern time, we are a couple of days from a very ambitious online film event: "For The Love of Film," a film-preservation themed blogathon hosted by the sites Self-Styled Siren and Ferdy on Film. The ambitiousness pertains not merely to content, but to a goal—there's a fund-raising component to the project.
And we are mere hours from another ambitious and exciting online film event: the live-streaming of a new restoration of Fritz Lang's Metropolis, put together, if I'm not mistaken, the redoubtable Frederick Murnau Foundation. "It's said that nearly an hour of footage, long thought to have been lost, has been added," enthuses Roger Ebert, who provides details of the virtual screening at his blog. I'll be watching.
I'm scheduled to write a contribution to the blogathon, and I'm kind...
And we are mere hours from another ambitious and exciting online film event: the live-streaming of a new restoration of Fritz Lang's Metropolis, put together, if I'm not mistaken, the redoubtable Frederick Murnau Foundation. "It's said that nearly an hour of footage, long thought to have been lost, has been added," enthuses Roger Ebert, who provides details of the virtual screening at his blog. I'll be watching.
I'm scheduled to write a contribution to the blogathon, and I'm kind...
- 2/12/2010
- MUBI
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