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METROPOLIS Restoration Finally Underway

July 23, 2009 Rich Drees

It has taken a year, but the only known nearly complete version of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis has finally made its way from where it was discovered in Buenos Aires to Wiesbaden, Germany where it will [click for more]

Maxine Cooper, KISS ME DEADLY’s Velda, Has Died

April 19, 2009 Rich Drees

Maxine Cooper, the actress who played Mike Hammer’s trusted secretary Velda in director Robert Aldrich’s classic 1955 film noir Kiss Me Deadly, has died in Los Angeles, CA. She was 84. Cooper, who went by [click for more]

GODZILLA Goes HiDef

January 11, 2009 Rich Drees

This past fall, all 28 Godzilla films were broadcast on Japan’s high definition Movie Specialty Channel. Of course, this meant the entire series needed to be remastered for high-def broadcast. Over at SciFi Japan, there’s [click for more]

Restored SLEEPING BEAUTY DVD Screen Shots

October 9, 2008 Rich Drees

If you’ve seen the commercials pimping Walt Disney’s DVD and Blu-Ray release of Sleeping Beauty this week, you’ve probably noticed that they’re advertising the film as being fully restored to its original aspect ratio. But [click for more]

An Offer You Can Not Refuse: Godfather I and II, Restored And On The Big Screen.

August 20, 2008 Bill Gatevackes

Film fans in the New York City area will soon be able to see one of the greatest films of all time, and its just as good sequel, fully restored and on the big screen like [click for more]

(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]

NYFF Review: BLADE RUNNER- THE FINAL CUT

September 28, 2007 Rich Drees

Although it confused critics and audiences in its initial 1982 release, Ridley Scott’s science-fiction noir Blade Runner remains, a quarter of a century later, not only one of the most important films in the director’s [click for more]