With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options—not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves–each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit platforms. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here.
30 Years of The Film Foundation
Equally impressive as his towering career is Martin Scorsese’s dedication to restoring previously lost classics and championing underseen gems with The Film Foundation. Now celebrating 30 years, they’ve been given the spotlight on The Criterion Channel, featuring a wealth of highlights as well as a conversation between Scorsese and Ari Aster. The lineup of essentials includes The Broken Butterfly (1919), Trouble in Paradise (1932), It Happened One Night (1934), L’Atalante (1934), The Long Voyage Home (1940) The Chase (1946), The Red Shoes (1948), The River (1951), Moulin Rouge (1952), The Bigamist (1953), Ugetsu (1953), Senso (1954), The Big Country (1958), Shadows (1959), The Cloud-Capped Star (1960), Primary (1960), The Connection (1961), Salvatore Giuliano (1962), The Masque of the Red Death (1964), Once Upon a Time in the West...
30 Years of The Film Foundation
Equally impressive as his towering career is Martin Scorsese’s dedication to restoring previously lost classics and championing underseen gems with The Film Foundation. Now celebrating 30 years, they’ve been given the spotlight on The Criterion Channel, featuring a wealth of highlights as well as a conversation between Scorsese and Ari Aster. The lineup of essentials includes The Broken Butterfly (1919), Trouble in Paradise (1932), It Happened One Night (1934), L’Atalante (1934), The Long Voyage Home (1940) The Chase (1946), The Red Shoes (1948), The River (1951), Moulin Rouge (1952), The Bigamist (1953), Ugetsu (1953), Senso (1954), The Big Country (1958), Shadows (1959), The Cloud-Capped Star (1960), Primary (1960), The Connection (1961), Salvatore Giuliano (1962), The Masque of the Red Death (1964), Once Upon a Time in the West...
- 11/20/2020
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
As much as we adore and revere the theatrical experience, as theater chains prep to reopen amidst a virus that is spreading rapidly in certain areas of the country, one is far better off staying at home and enjoying films from around the world. There’s no better place to do that than The Criterion Channel, and now they’ve unveiled their July lineup.
Coming to the channel next month are retrospectives dedicated to the stellar early films of Atom Egoyan, works by Miranda July, films featuring Ryuichi Sakamoto scores, Olympic films (including their recent release Tokyo Olympiad), plus Kelly Reichardt’s masterful Certain Women, Med Hondo’s Soleil Ô (coming soon to disc with Scorsese’s next World Cinema Project release), Lizzie Borden’s Born in Flames, Asghar Farhadi’s A Separation, and much more.
See the lineup below and explore more on their platform. One can also see our weekly streaming picks here.
Coming to the channel next month are retrospectives dedicated to the stellar early films of Atom Egoyan, works by Miranda July, films featuring Ryuichi Sakamoto scores, Olympic films (including their recent release Tokyo Olympiad), plus Kelly Reichardt’s masterful Certain Women, Med Hondo’s Soleil Ô (coming soon to disc with Scorsese’s next World Cinema Project release), Lizzie Borden’s Born in Flames, Asghar Farhadi’s A Separation, and much more.
See the lineup below and explore more on their platform. One can also see our weekly streaming picks here.
- 6/26/2020
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
African Film Heritage Project to restore initial selection of 50 titles.
Martin Scorsese’s The Film Foundation has signed a letter of agreement with Unesco and the Pan African Federation of Filmmakers (Fepaci) to restore African films.
The agreement formalises their existing partnership on the African Film Heritage Project (Afhp) to preserve African cinema.
Afhp will locate and restore an initial selection of 50 African films, identified by Fepaci’s advisory board of African archivists, scholars and filmmakers.
After initially launching in February, the Afhp completed its first restoration, the 1969 film Soleil O directed by Med Hondo, which premiered in Cannes last month.
An extensive survey to locate the best existing film elements for each of the 50 films will be conducted in African cinematheques and archives around the world.
Following restoration, the films will be distributed worldwide at festivals, museums and universities, and will be made available via digital platforms and other formats.
Scorsese said: “I...
Martin Scorsese’s The Film Foundation has signed a letter of agreement with Unesco and the Pan African Federation of Filmmakers (Fepaci) to restore African films.
The agreement formalises their existing partnership on the African Film Heritage Project (Afhp) to preserve African cinema.
Afhp will locate and restore an initial selection of 50 African films, identified by Fepaci’s advisory board of African archivists, scholars and filmmakers.
After initially launching in February, the Afhp completed its first restoration, the 1969 film Soleil O directed by Med Hondo, which premiered in Cannes last month.
An extensive survey to locate the best existing film elements for each of the 50 films will be conducted in African cinematheques and archives around the world.
Following restoration, the films will be distributed worldwide at festivals, museums and universities, and will be made available via digital platforms and other formats.
Scorsese said: “I...
- 6/12/2017
- ScreenDaily
Martin Scorsese’s The Film Foundation, Unesco, Fepaci finalise agreement to preserve African films.
Martin Scorsese’s foundation has signed a letter of agreement with Unesco and the Pan African Federation of Filmmakers (Fepaci) to restore African films.
The agreement formalises their existing partnership on the African Film Heritage Project (Afhp), an initiative to preserve African cinema.
Afhp will locate and restore an initial selection of 50 African films, identified by Fepaci’s advisory board of African archivists, scholars and filmmakers.
After initially launching in February, the Afhp completed its first restoration, the 1969 film Soleil O directed by Med Hondo, which premiered at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.
An extensive survey to locate the best existing film elements for each of the 50 films will be conducted in African Cinémathèques and archives around the world.
Following restoration, the films will be distributed worldwide at festivals, museums and universities, and will be made available via digital platforms and other...
Martin Scorsese’s foundation has signed a letter of agreement with Unesco and the Pan African Federation of Filmmakers (Fepaci) to restore African films.
The agreement formalises their existing partnership on the African Film Heritage Project (Afhp), an initiative to preserve African cinema.
Afhp will locate and restore an initial selection of 50 African films, identified by Fepaci’s advisory board of African archivists, scholars and filmmakers.
After initially launching in February, the Afhp completed its first restoration, the 1969 film Soleil O directed by Med Hondo, which premiered at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.
An extensive survey to locate the best existing film elements for each of the 50 films will be conducted in African Cinémathèques and archives around the world.
Following restoration, the films will be distributed worldwide at festivals, museums and universities, and will be made available via digital platforms and other...
- 6/12/2017
- ScreenDaily
Aboubakar Sanogo is a scholar of African cinema based out of Ottowa and works for the Pan African Federation of Filmmakers (Fepaci), but it took him years to see one of the major films from the continent: Med Hondo’s “Soleil O,” a 1969 portrait of a black immigrant in Paris, was long revered but widely unavailable; Sanogo didn’t see it until a print surfaced in Paris in 2006. “Even in Burkina, the capital city of African cinema, it wasn’t available,” Sanogo said in New York this week. “It’s a huge problem.”
Sanogo was addressing a broader challenge facing the preservation of African film history — and one that might be facing a brighter future. On June 7, Fepaci, Unesco and Martin Scorsese’s Film Foundation World Cinema Project signed a letter of agreement formalizing their partnership on the African Film Heritage Project, a joint initiative to preserve African cinema. But...
Sanogo was addressing a broader challenge facing the preservation of African film history — and one that might be facing a brighter future. On June 7, Fepaci, Unesco and Martin Scorsese’s Film Foundation World Cinema Project signed a letter of agreement formalizing their partnership on the African Film Heritage Project, a joint initiative to preserve African cinema. But...
- 6/9/2017
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
It means something when one of American cinema’s greatest auteurs and commits to working on a digital platform, big-screen experience be damned. That’s exactly what Martin Scorsese did by partnering with Netflix on his next project, the $125 million mob movie “The Irishman.” While the 74-year-old New Yorker delights in celebrating film history, he’s practical enough to know his movies must remain relevant in rapidly changing times.
The fast-talking cinephile has also moved into television (“Boardwalk Empire” and “Vinyl”), fought to preserve film history through archival efforts, and produced films from younger generations. By getting a handle on multiple facets of the moving image, he’s saving filmmaking from extinction in a fragmented media age, even as he contributes to the art form with his own vibrant and ambitious directing efforts.
“I do think, with the advent of digital, there’s good hope that the storytelling impulse will always be there,...
The fast-talking cinephile has also moved into television (“Boardwalk Empire” and “Vinyl”), fought to preserve film history through archival efforts, and produced films from younger generations. By getting a handle on multiple facets of the moving image, he’s saving filmmaking from extinction in a fragmented media age, even as he contributes to the art form with his own vibrant and ambitious directing efforts.
“I do think, with the advent of digital, there’s good hope that the storytelling impulse will always be there,...
- 6/9/2017
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
Strand will focus on the history of Cannes for the festival’s 70th anniversary.
Cannes Film Festival (May 17-28) has unveiled the line-up for this year’s Classic programme, with 24 screenings set to take place alongside five documentaries and one short film.
Documentaries about cinema including Filmworker - which focuses of Stanley Kubrick’s right hand man Leon Vitali, who played a crucial role behind the scenes of the director’s films - as well as Cary Grant doc Becoming Cary Grant, are set to feature.
This year’s selection is also set to focus on the history of the festival itself, with prize-winning films such as Michelangelo Antonioni Grand 1966 Prix winning film Blow-Up and Henri-Georges Clouzot’s Le Salaire de la peur (The Wages of Fear) from 1952 screening.
Nagisa Oshima’s 1976 film Ai No Korîda (In The Realm Of The Senses/L’Empire Des Sens), Luis Buñuel’s 1967 classic Belle De Jour (Beauty Of The Day...
Cannes Film Festival (May 17-28) has unveiled the line-up for this year’s Classic programme, with 24 screenings set to take place alongside five documentaries and one short film.
Documentaries about cinema including Filmworker - which focuses of Stanley Kubrick’s right hand man Leon Vitali, who played a crucial role behind the scenes of the director’s films - as well as Cary Grant doc Becoming Cary Grant, are set to feature.
This year’s selection is also set to focus on the history of the festival itself, with prize-winning films such as Michelangelo Antonioni Grand 1966 Prix winning film Blow-Up and Henri-Georges Clouzot’s Le Salaire de la peur (The Wages of Fear) from 1952 screening.
Nagisa Oshima’s 1976 film Ai No Korîda (In The Realm Of The Senses/L’Empire Des Sens), Luis Buñuel’s 1967 classic Belle De Jour (Beauty Of The Day...
- 5/3/2017
- ScreenDaily
While Cannes Film Festival premieres some of the best new films of the year, they also have a rich history of highlighting cinema history with their Cannes Classics line-up, many of which are new restorations of films that previously premiered at the festival. This year they are taking that idea further, featuring 16 films that made history at the festival, along with a handful of others, and five new documentaries. So, if you can’t make it to Cannes, to get a sense of restorations that may come to your city (or on Blu-ray) in the coming months/years, check out the line-up below.
From 1946 to 1992, from René Clément to Victor Erice, sixteen history-making films of the Festival de Cannes
1946: La Bataille du Rail (Battle of the Rails) by René Clément (1h25, France): Grand Prix International de la mise en scène and Prix du Jury International.
Presented by Ina.
From 1946 to 1992, from René Clément to Victor Erice, sixteen history-making films of the Festival de Cannes
1946: La Bataille du Rail (Battle of the Rails) by René Clément (1h25, France): Grand Prix International de la mise en scène and Prix du Jury International.
Presented by Ina.
- 5/3/2017
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Not exactly the kind of news you want hear about the project, but still some noteworthy info worth sharing on the Toussaint Louverture film that Danny Glover has been working on for what feels like a really long time…
Not much has been reported on its progress in awhile, and, as far as I’m concerned the project is likely dead, until I hear otherwise.
However, thanks to Bombastic Element’s blog, I learned that Med Hondo, Mauritanian director, producer, screenwriter & actor, claims that Glover’s Louverture project is in fact based on his (Hondo’s) own original screenplay, and he actually wrote a damning open letter to Glover expressing his concerns.
The intriguing short version of the story goes… Hondo says he’d been working on a biopic of Toussaint Louverture when he first met Danny Glover in 1991. Glover, taken by the project, made it known to Hondo that...
Not much has been reported on its progress in awhile, and, as far as I’m concerned the project is likely dead, until I hear otherwise.
However, thanks to Bombastic Element’s blog, I learned that Med Hondo, Mauritanian director, producer, screenwriter & actor, claims that Glover’s Louverture project is in fact based on his (Hondo’s) own original screenplay, and he actually wrote a damning open letter to Glover expressing his concerns.
The intriguing short version of the story goes… Hondo says he’d been working on a biopic of Toussaint Louverture when he first met Danny Glover in 1991. Glover, taken by the project, made it known to Hondo that...
- 9/8/2010
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
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