A non-profit organization dedicated to film preservation and the exhibition of restored and classic cinema, the Foundation has overseen the restoration of over 900 films to date. In her keynote address at the Lumière Festival’s Classic Film Market, Bodde explained how it came about.
“It was 1990 and Martin Scorsese and a group of his fellow filmmakers like Spielberg, Lucas, Coppola, Kubrick and Pollack were really agitated at the idea that the cinema they grew up loving was literally fading away.
“At the time, there was no home video market and the studios had not instituted a systematic approach to their collections. So they created the Film Foundation to build a bridge between studios and the non-profit archives to raise awareness and funds for film preservation projects.”
As time went on, the Film Foundation turned its attention to independent films too. “Films that are independently produced are quite vulnerable, they are...
“It was 1990 and Martin Scorsese and a group of his fellow filmmakers like Spielberg, Lucas, Coppola, Kubrick and Pollack were really agitated at the idea that the cinema they grew up loving was literally fading away.
“At the time, there was no home video market and the studios had not instituted a systematic approach to their collections. So they created the Film Foundation to build a bridge between studios and the non-profit archives to raise awareness and funds for film preservation projects.”
As time went on, the Film Foundation turned its attention to independent films too. “Films that are independently produced are quite vulnerable, they are...
- 10/14/2021
- by Lise Pedersen
- Variety Film + TV
Mubi has revealed its picks for November with a slate packed with recent festival hits and rediscovered classics. Nimic, the latest work by award-winning director Yorgos Lanthimos, premieres exclusively on Mubi November 27. Starring Oscar nominee Matt Dillon and written by Lanthimos with frequent collaborator Efthimis Filippou, Nimic is a compact thriller about identity, perception, relationships, and circularity.
November will kick off with the exclusive online premiere of Angela Schanelec’s I Was at Home, But…,an enigmatic story of family and loss that confirms the German auteur’s status as a modern master. To coincide with the US election on November 3rd, Mubi is proud to exclusively present a new restoration of Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind. Making its way through 400 years of American history, this thought-provoking documentary by John Gianvito visits the resting places of such famed figures as Malcolm X, Mother Jones, Frederick Douglass, Cesar Chavez, Susan B. Anthony and Crazy Horse,...
November will kick off with the exclusive online premiere of Angela Schanelec’s I Was at Home, But…,an enigmatic story of family and loss that confirms the German auteur’s status as a modern master. To coincide with the US election on November 3rd, Mubi is proud to exclusively present a new restoration of Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind. Making its way through 400 years of American history, this thought-provoking documentary by John Gianvito visits the resting places of such famed figures as Malcolm X, Mother Jones, Frederick Douglass, Cesar Chavez, Susan B. Anthony and Crazy Horse,...
- 11/1/2020
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
Julia Sawalha has shared an open letter via her social media profiles expressing disappointment and anger at being left out of Aardman Animations’ upcoming “Chicken Run” sequel, confirmed as a Netflix pickup at June’s Annecy festival. Sawalha voiced Ginger in the Oscar-nominated original, which remains the top grossing stop-motion feature ever, 20 years after its release.
“To say that I am devastated and furious would be an understatement,” she said in the letter. “I feel totally powerless, something in all of this doesn’t quite ring true. I trust my instincts and they are waving red flags.”
According to Sawalha, she was informed about the decision last week by her agent, who speculated it was because her voice now sounds “too old” after receiving a letter of dismissal in which it was indicated that Mel Gibson would not be returning as Rocky for that very reason.
Sawalha says that voice...
“To say that I am devastated and furious would be an understatement,” she said in the letter. “I feel totally powerless, something in all of this doesn’t quite ring true. I trust my instincts and they are waving red flags.”
According to Sawalha, she was informed about the decision last week by her agent, who speculated it was because her voice now sounds “too old” after receiving a letter of dismissal in which it was indicated that Mel Gibson would not be returning as Rocky for that very reason.
Sawalha says that voice...
- 7/10/2020
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
The London arts venue has been closed since March 17 due to the Covid-19 crisis.
London arts venue the Barbican has launched its first streaming service while its cinemas remain closed due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.
Cinema On Demand is a pay-per-view service and will host acclaimed international films, children’s titles and virtual Q&As. It has been supported the Mayor of London’s Culture at Risk business support fund (launched in response to the virus crisis) and the BFI Film Audience Network, using National Lottery money.
The streaming service will feature a rolling four-week programme of titles and events,...
London arts venue the Barbican has launched its first streaming service while its cinemas remain closed due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.
Cinema On Demand is a pay-per-view service and will host acclaimed international films, children’s titles and virtual Q&As. It has been supported the Mayor of London’s Culture at Risk business support fund (launched in response to the virus crisis) and the BFI Film Audience Network, using National Lottery money.
The streaming service will feature a rolling four-week programme of titles and events,...
- 7/10/2020
- by 1100453¦Michael Rosser¦9¦
- ScreenDaily
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 an archive of past round-ups here.
Before we get to our weekly streaming picks, check out our annual feature: Where to Stream the Best Films of 2019.
The Aeronauts (Tom Harper)
The Oscar-garlanded pairing of Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones reteam five years after The Theory of Everything for The Aeronauts, an adventurous family-friendly slice of Victorian nostalgia about the exploits of plucky balloonists who risk all for the pursuit of science. In 1862 London, Redmayne again plays a scientist in his awkward-quirky puppy-dog face vein as a forerunner meteorologist James Glaisher whose climatological predictions he says can only be checked high up in the air. Jones is his erstwhile sidekick Amelia Wren, but...
Before we get to our weekly streaming picks, check out our annual feature: Where to Stream the Best Films of 2019.
The Aeronauts (Tom Harper)
The Oscar-garlanded pairing of Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones reteam five years after The Theory of Everything for The Aeronauts, an adventurous family-friendly slice of Victorian nostalgia about the exploits of plucky balloonists who risk all for the pursuit of science. In 1862 London, Redmayne again plays a scientist in his awkward-quirky puppy-dog face vein as a forerunner meteorologist James Glaisher whose climatological predictions he says can only be checked high up in the air. Jones is his erstwhile sidekick Amelia Wren, but...
- 12/27/2019
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSThe Dead Don't DieJim Jarmusch's zombie flick The Dead Don't Die will be the first film to screen at this year's Cannes Film Festival in competition for the Palme d'Or. Is retiring from film directing a myth? Reportedly Béla Tarr has a new film, Missing People, set to premiere this summer in Vienna.Made in 1967, Raúl Ruiz's The Tango of the Widower was intended to be his debut feature, but was sadly abandoned because of funding problems. However, the film has now been restored and slated for a festival premiere, and Ruiz's widow and collaborator Valeria Sarmiento is overseeing its completion. Brian de Palma will be developing an English-language remake of the WWII-set French drama series, Un village français, with plans to place his adaptation during the times of the U.S. Civil War.
- 4/10/2019
- MUBI
In Nietzchka Keene’s somber 1990 adaptation of the Brothers Grimm’s “The Juniper Tree,” which stars Björk in her first feature film role and is currently being re-released in a 4k restoration, the story moves at its own deliberate pace. With a lulling rhythm that’s aching and laguid with no sense of urgency despite an atmosphere that weeps with prolonged grief and yearning, the film acts like a hymn. Mournful and repetitive, it follows the lives of two sisters in the Middle Ages after the death of their mother, who was stoned and burnt after being uncovered as a witch. The two make an escape and run into a recent widower with a young son. Jóhann (Valdimar Örn Flygenring) and his son Jónas (Geirlaug Sunna Þormar) are still despondent following the death of their wife and mother, and the eldest of the runaway sisters, Katla (Bryndis Petra Bragadóttir), uses...
- 3/19/2019
- MUBI
A film that’s every bit as lyrical and fraught as the T.S. Eliot poem it uses for a preface, Nietzchka Keene’s little-seen “The Juniper Tree” — shot in the summer of 1986, only to premiere at Sundance four years later after a series of financial woes — has long been thought of as the other Björk movie, the one she made before her feral, totemic, Falconetti-level performance in “Dancer in the Dark.” The one Björk made before she was even Björk.
Now, thanks to a stunning new 4K restoration made from the original 35mm camera negative, people will finally have a chance to appreciate this ethereal American gem as more than a footnote of its soon-to-be-iconic star’s career. Spellbinding as Björk’s screen presence was and has always been, “The Juniper Tree” deserves to be seen outside of her shadow.
Based on the spectacularly macabre Brothers Grimm story of the same name,...
Now, thanks to a stunning new 4K restoration made from the original 35mm camera negative, people will finally have a chance to appreciate this ethereal American gem as more than a footnote of its soon-to-be-iconic star’s career. Spellbinding as Björk’s screen presence was and has always been, “The Juniper Tree” deserves to be seen outside of her shadow.
Based on the spectacularly macabre Brothers Grimm story of the same name,...
- 3/14/2019
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
We’ve devoured the land of our planet in an effort to call it our home. We’ve pulled the resources from her body, filled her oceans with litter, and damaged her atmosphere all in the foolish assumption that it was ours to do with as we pleased. We are small, and the Earth is not ours. She will outlive all of us, and we’ll merely be a fairy tale, a blip on her history. Most movies don’t reckon with the older, more mythical stance we held with nature in generations past, but Nietzchka Keene’s The Juniper Tree does. Shot on black-and-white 35mm, her 1990 picture charts the story of a ruptured family trying to gain some semblance of peace in an environment infused with mystical renderings of ghosts, witches, and moral curses acting as karmic gods.
The Juniper Tree takes its DNA from the Grimm Fairy Tale...
The Juniper Tree takes its DNA from the Grimm Fairy Tale...
- 3/13/2019
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
"Out from here, away be gone." Arbelos Films has debuted a new trailer for the restored re-release of The Juniper Tree, a surrealist film from 1990 filmed in Iceland and made by filmmaker Nietzchka Keene. The film stars a young Björk (25 years old at the time) as a woman who flees her homeland in Iceland after her mother is killed for practicing witchcraft. Her older sister casts a spell on a farmer which makes him fall in love with her, but his son sees through her tricky plan. The full cast includes Bryndis Petra Bragadóttir, Valdimar Örn Flygenring, Guðrún Gísladóttir, and Geirlaug Sunna Þormar. This 4K restoration is from the Wisconsin Center for Film & Theater Research and The Film Foundation, with funding from the George Lucas Family Foundation. The Juniper Tree is described as a "potent allegory for misogyny and its attendant tragedies, [and] a major rediscovery for art house audiences." It seems very dreamlike and poetic.
- 3/10/2019
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Before she was known only by her first name, and long before her awe-inspiring performance in Lars von Trier’s “Dancer in the Dark” proved that musicians can sometimes out-act even the best actors, the beloved and enigmatic Björk made her feature film debut in a black-and-white film called “The Juniper Tree.” Based on a witchcraft tale from the Brothers Grimm and directed by Nietzchka Keene, “The Juniper Tree” premiered in competition at the 1990 Sundance Film Festival. Unfortunately, the fantasy arthouse indie never received theatrical distribution, making a new 4k restoration and re-release especially enticing.
As evidenced in IndieWire’s exclusive trailer for the new restoration — featuring stunning cinematography of Icelandic vistas and Björk’s already-honed onscreen naturalism — it’s clear that this vintage work deserves renewed attention.
Per Metrograph’s official synopsis: “Björk, then still the frontwoman of the Sugarcubes and not quite yet an international superstar, plays a...
As evidenced in IndieWire’s exclusive trailer for the new restoration — featuring stunning cinematography of Icelandic vistas and Björk’s already-honed onscreen naturalism — it’s clear that this vintage work deserves renewed attention.
Per Metrograph’s official synopsis: “Björk, then still the frontwoman of the Sugarcubes and not quite yet an international superstar, plays a...
- 3/4/2019
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
Patty Jenkins’ limited series “I Am the Night” is among the latest additions to AFI Fest 2018’s lineup, as the American Film Institute unveiled the program for its special screenings, Cinema’s Legacy, and Midnight sections on Thursday.
Jenkins, an AFI Conservatory alumnus, co-directed the six-episode series that will air on TNT in January, and which will have its first episode screened at the festival in November. The series stars India Eisley as a woman whose mother left her with a restroom attendant in a Nevada casino at birth. As an adult, she tries to unravel the secrets of her past, discovering that her mother was connected to a Hollywood gynecologist who played a role in one of the most infamous murders in history. Chris Pine also stars.
Also Read: AFI Fest to Feature Nicole Kidman and 'Destroyer' in Tribute Gala
Other major films being featured in the...
Jenkins, an AFI Conservatory alumnus, co-directed the six-episode series that will air on TNT in January, and which will have its first episode screened at the festival in November. The series stars India Eisley as a woman whose mother left her with a restroom attendant in a Nevada casino at birth. As an adult, she tries to unravel the secrets of her past, discovering that her mother was connected to a Hollywood gynecologist who played a role in one of the most infamous murders in history. Chris Pine also stars.
Also Read: AFI Fest to Feature Nicole Kidman and 'Destroyer' in Tribute Gala
Other major films being featured in the...
- 10/18/2018
- by Jeremy Fuster
- The Wrap
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