Three restorations of films from director @theleegrant kick off at @afisilvertheatre this weekend as part of a centennial tribute spotlighting her work on every side of the camera.
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Lizzie Borden's BORN IN FLAMES (1983) screens for free thanks to the UCLA Film & Television Archive on Sunday, November 23rd!
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3 TFF-Supported restorations will screen at this year's NYFF!
- Flora Gomes’s MORTU NEGA (1988)
- Ossie Davis's BLACK GIRL (1972)
- Satyajit Ray’s DAYS AND NIGHTS IN THE FOREST (1970)
Learn more about these films & the entire Revivals line-up at the link below:
www.filmlinc.org/nyff2025/dai...
The stunning new restoration of THE FALL OF OTRAR opens for a week-long run at Film at Lincoln Center today!
Don't miss this incredible opportunity to see an epic movie—co-written by the great Aleksei German—on a BIG screen!
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the very great “annihilation of fish” is out on dvd/blu-ray today from @milestonefilms.bsky.social / @kinolorber.com with support from @thefilmfoundation.bsky.social and @uclaftvarchive.bsky.social.
a special commentary with me and director charles burnett is on the disc. ❤️
Last week of 'From Censored to Restored' at BFI! Here are the films you can still watch before it ends:
1. Stars in Broad Daylight - A biting satire on the dissolution of a Syrian family, an allegory on the Assad dictatorship beautifully restored by @thefilmfoundation.bsky.social
Screening: 31 Jul
5. Sambizanga - A radical film of tactile beauty on the chorus of the oppressed against the injustice of the oppressor. Restored by @thefilmfoundation.bsky.social's World Cinema Project and Cineteca di Bologna
Screening: 30 Jul
Link in bio for tickets
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Could TELL ME A RIDDLE be a #mothersday classic? Stream Lee Grant’s newly restored directing debut this weekend cause it just might be.
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Australia's Cinema Reborn festival kicks off today in Sydney! There are tons of great films including TFF projects Sergei Parajanov's SHADOWS OF FORGOTTEN ANCESTORS (1965), Henry King's STELLA DALLAS (1925), & Ardak Amirkulov’s THE FALL OF OTRAR (1991)
Full line-up✨ cinemareborn.com.au/2025-Program
🎬 @KinoLorber.com's Law and Order (1932) Blu-ray releases June 17! 🏇
Experience a fresh 4K restoration by Universal and @thefilmfoundation.bsky.social!
Features include commentaries and the preserved "Without Honor." 🏜
A collectors dream! 💿
#PhysicalMedia #FilmSky
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Friday, Apr. 11, 7:30 p.m.
🎨 Back From the Ink: Restored Animated Shorts
The result of a collaboration between The Seth MacFarlane Foundation, UCLA, @thefilmfoundation.bsky.social & Paramount Pictures Archives, these 12 restorations showcase the work of the Fleischers & more. Free! ucla.in/42mMg7A
Don't miss our new restoration of William Wyler's epic BEN-HUR (1959) !!!
The Annihilation of Fish
***ANNOUNCEMENT***
Coming on June 17th on Blu-ray from @milestonefilms.bsky.social via @kinolorber.com distribution: #TheAnnihilationOfFish (1999)!
New restoration! Winner of an Honorary Academy Award® for lifetime achievement, Charles Burnett remains one of our country’s
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Our restoration of ALMA'S RAINBOW (Ayoka Chenzira, 1994) screens tonight at MoMA! Don't miss this vivid coming-of-age comedy-drama about three Black women living in Brooklyn.
www.moma.org/calendar/eve...
Over the past couple of months, I heard CSO perform Bartók's only opera, BLUEBEARD'S CASTLE, and saw Michael Powell's 1963 film of the same, both of which sent me into a mild recent obsession with it. Recommended just in case you would like your Bartók celebration to have a murderous, operatic vibe.
A 35mm print (!) of our restoration of Rene Clair's I MARRIED A WITCH screens multiple times this week at Film Forum in their incredible Rene Clair series!
Hang out with Veronica Lake, Fredric March, and Robert Benchley on March 26th, 28th, and 29th:
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Kathleen Collins’s LOSING GROUND, a patient exploration of the relationship between the personal and the professional, is available today in a two-disc special edition Blu-ray edition from @milestonefilms.bsky.social and @kinolorber.com. shorturl.at/ljulJ
Film Forum's run of EL has been extended until March 27th ‼️
Go see Bunuel's twisted tale of obsession on the big screen!
filmforum.org/film/el
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Read J. Hoberman's new NY Times piece on Luis Buñuel’s 1953 "blasphemous black comedy," EL and then head over to Film Forum (3/14-3/20) to see our new 4K restoration of the film!
- www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/m...
- filmforum.org/film/el
Don't miss your chance to see this in a theater!
Ophuls' incredible film, THE MEMORY OF JUSTICE (1976), screens this weekend @britishacademy.bsky.social ‼️ Don't miss your chance to see this vital film.
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/the-a...
And be sure to read Catherine Ellsberg's new piece on the film, linked to below!
A fabulous interview of Charles Burnett on MUBI by Carlos Valladares! mubi.com/en/notebook/...
"It took too long for the world to be able to see this film’s value, but what a gift now that it finally has." Jessica Scott, MOVIE JAWN Feb 21, 2025
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LA! Don't miss your chance to see this gem of a movie on the big screen!
+Charles Burnett will be in person ♥️♥️♥️
Thank you to L.A. Times writer Mark Olsen for highlighting Charles Burnett’s “The Annihilation of Fish” — restored by UCLA and @thefilmfoundation.bsky.social in collab w/ @milestonefilms.bsky.social — and our “Documenting Michelle Parkerson” series this weekend! www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
"At long last, its time has come!” Tim Grierson, LA Times
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on 3/11 at 7:30 pm, i’ll be in conversation with charles burnett at @vidiots.bsky.social to discuss the resurrection of his masterpiece “annihilation of fish” 💌
“a tale of two troubled souls who find each other, the movie has become an even stronger tribute to the people (not to mention the art) we so easily push aside.”
a gorgeous review of “annihilation of fish” (1999) in the @latimes.com. the film opens this evening in los angeles at the los feliz 3!
