Where do you go if you want to watch rare archive films such as a 1916 documentary about life on a German submarine or John Ford's 53-minute Western Bucking Broadway from the following year? Until now ...
Wikiflix is a free, online archive of about 4,000 public domain films (via TechCrunch and Annie Rauwerda of Depths of Wikipedia ). 1922's Nosferatu, 1927's Metropolis, and 1946's It's A Wonderful Life ...
How a Twitter feed about often forgotten classics of Black film — from silent pictures to the age of blaxploitation — became a virtual vault dedicated to the preservation of a rich cinematic legacy.
When Maya Cade founded her meticulously curated database of Black films from 1915 to 1979, she addressed a community need with love. In 2020, shortly after the murder of George Floyd and the wave of ...
The independent filmmaking community is up in arms over the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences’ recent decision to gut its archive and library, with some calling the cutbacks “a huge step ...
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The Basement Films archives are officially moving into their new home at CNM. The archive, which specializes in 8mm and 16mm films, was kicked out of its previous space at UNM in ...
In 2020, a series of insurrections reverberated out of Minneapolis, Minnesota, following the murder of George Floyd. The uprisings enlivened many communities facing the harsh grips of a global ...
A still from director Edward Yang's 2000 film "Yi Yi." (Courtesy Harvard Film Archive) One of my favorite depictions of a child in all of cinema is an 8-year-old named Yang Yang in writer-director ...
Warner Bros. Studios is celebrating its 100 anniversary by opening its top-secret archives — to the media, anyway — to showcase its incredible collections of film props, costumes, vehicles and ...
Roughly a quarter of the employees of the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Science’s Academy Film Archive were laid off this week, according to a report from IndieWire. Employees of the Archive—one ...
The National Film Archive of India (NFAI) has undertaken the massive task of restoring 5,000 priceless classics of Indian cinema. The initiative is already bearing fruit with Satyajit Ray‘s ...
The “we love” projection, as seen from outside the Cicero el stop on the west side Credit: Nancy Stone/Chicago Film Archives “As long as we have had cameras, we have made home movies about the people ...