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(Nearly) Complete Copy Of METROPOLIS Found!

July 7, 2008 Rich Drees

One of the greatest films of the silent era is Metropolis. A Gothic science-fiction tale and social critque, it is now taught in both film and literature courses in colleges and universities and continues to [click for more]

Restoring THE GODFATHER

June 9, 2008 Rich Drees

Film preservation is not focused solely on rescuing and restoring crumbling black and white films from the earliest days of Hollywood. Preservationists’ sites can be focused on films needing repair from as recent as the [click for more]

What Was Lost In The (Universal) Fire: FLASH GORDON, OUT OF AFRICA And Possibly TOUCH OF EVIL.

June 7, 2008 Bill Gatevackes

It might be months before we have a complete list of of the prints destroyed in the Universal Studios fire, but some titles have been confirmed. Variety has a report on some of the movies [click for more]

Universal Fire To Impact Revival House Programming?

June 4, 2008 Rich Drees

Although spokespeople for Universal Studios have stated that nothing irreplaceable was lost in this past Sunday’s fire on their lot, there seems to be questions remaining as to what was damaged and how quickly, if [click for more]

Larry Gross Remembers Making 48 HOURS

June 2, 2008 Rich Drees

Long before it was a CBS investigative journalism show, 48 Hours was known as the movie that launched the film career of Saturday Night Live performer Eddie Murphy as well as gave rise to the [click for more]

Turner Classics To Present Essentials For Kids

May 27, 2008 Rich Drees

One of the best pieces of programming on the Turner Movie Classics channel is their Essentials series where Robert Osborne and a guest host discuss a classic film before screening the feature. Now, TCM has [click for more]

Warner Brothers History To Be Saluted At Cannes

May 8, 2008 Rich Drees

In conjunction with the premier of Richard Schickel’s PBS documentary You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story, the Cannes Film Festival will be running a program of films highlighting the studio’s 85 years. The [click for more]

DVD News: Criterion Goes BluRay

May 7, 2008 Rich Drees

DVD enthuiasts who subscribe to the Criterion Collection’s newsletter got a welcome piece of news this evening. The label is planning on releasing titles in the high definition BluRay format starting in October. Here’s the [click for more]

DVD News: DARK CITY Director’s Cut This July

April 29, 2008 Rich Drees

One of the best movies of the 1990s, genre or not genre, was Alex Proyas’ Dark City (1998). (This not even considering in the “Jennifer Connolly Factor,” which states that any movie in which Jennifer [click for more]

Jessica Rabbit In The Flesh (Sort Of)

April 22, 2008 Rich Drees

She wasn’t bad, she was just drawn that way. But now, Jessica Rabbit isn’t just an image of ink and paint, thanks to the hard work by the anonymous blogger over at pixeloo. Whoever he/she [click for more]