Film Preservation Articles
Martin Scorsese, the HFPA, and Film Preservation
When it came to the 2010 Golden Globe speeches, there wasn't much for posterity. Unless, of course, Arnold Schwarzenegger's remarks about half of Avatar's revenues being used to alleviate California's budget deficit will be remembered 1,000 years from now, along with The Aviator; New York, New York; Casino; GoodFellas; The Last Temptation of Christ; The Departed; and other movies directed by Martin Scorsese. Or at [...]
UCLA's Festival of Preservation: Fredric March, Edgar G. Ulmer
Next at UCLA's Festival of Preservation at the Billy Wilder Theater in Westwood: On Wed., April 15, at 7:30 pm: Efraín Gutiérrez's Run, Tecato, Run (1979), described as a real-life inspired tale that "depicts a junkie's efforts to get off heroin in order to reclaim and raise his daughter." Actor-director Gutiérrez is expected to attend the screening. On Fri., April 17, at 7:30 pm: Lester [...]
Cheryl Dunye's THE WATERMELON WOMAN at the REDCAT
Actress-filmmaker Cheryl Dunye and producer Alexandra Juhasz will be present at the REDCAT in downtown Los Angeles for a screening of Dunye's 1996 feature The Watermelon Woman on Monday, May 11, at 8:30 pm. The film will be screened in Beta SP. A fundraiser for the restoration of The Watermelon Woman will be held earlier that day (6:00-7:30 pm) at the Phyllis Stein Art, also [...]
Festival of Preservation 2009: Joan Bennett, Michael Redgrave, William Powell, Fay Wray, William Desmond Taylor
Tonight at 7:30 pm at UCLA's Festival of Preservation you'll be able to catch a screening of Fritz Lang's unfairly neglected Secret Beyond the Door (above), a 1947 noirish psychological melodrama starring Joan Bennett as woman married to Michael Redgrave, whom she suspects is out to kill her (possibly for her money). Unlike Alfred Hitchcock's Suspicion (1941) and George Cukor's similarly themed Gaslight (1944), Secret [...]