Archival Spaces 367 The First Mexican Sound Film Restored Uploaded 21 February 2025 Considered Mexico’s first “national” production in the sound film era, Santa (1932) was based on the eponymous Mexican novel (1903) by Federico Gamboa, which is as much a modernist portrait of Mexico City, as it is of the fate of its heroine.Continue reading “367: Santa’s Restoration”
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363: M&K Controversy
Archival Spaces 363 Mitchell and Kenyon Discovery in Dispute Uploaded 27 December 2024 I can’t quite remember when I first saw the Mitchell and Kenyon films but Andrea Leigh tells me it was at the AMIA Conference in 2001 when the British Film Institute first began circulating 35mm prints of their restorations. I was trulyContinue reading “363: M&K Controversy”
359: Pordenone Silent Films
Archival Spaces 359 Giornate del cinema muto/online Uploaded 1 November 2024 This year’s Giornate del cinema muto again offered a small selection of ten feature films from the festival, as well as selected shorts, mostly little or never seen films from countries as diverse as France, Uzbekistan, Cuba, Germany, Mexico, and the USA. The filmsContinue reading “359: Pordenone Silent Films”
347: Bushman rediscovered
Archival Spaces 347 Bushman (1971/2023) rediscovered Uploaded 17 May 2024 Milestone and Kino Lorber are releasing a Blu-ray of a new restoration of Bushman (1971) on 21 May 2024, a film that was not exactly overlooked when it first screened – it was praised by critics – but it never found a distributor. Directed byContinue reading “347: Bushman rediscovered”
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