So many movie-buff discoveries, links, DVD releases and publications cross my desk that it’s not possible to keep up with them all, but I’d like to try catching up a bit. Let’s start with a Charlie Chaplin radio documentary. I don’t know how it escaped my notice for almost two years, but BBC radio i...
Read More »Independent distribution company Milestone has launched a Kickstarter campaign to aid the Academy Film Archive's costly restoration of filmmaker Shirley Clarke's seminal 1967 documentary "Portrait of Jason," one of the first openly frank LGBT films in existence.
Read More »One of the silent screen’s most important stars (and pioneering producers) is being celebrated on an innovative new website. The Mary Pickford Foundation has just launched www.marypickford.org, following a program held in her honor at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Pickford Center ...
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