The independent filmmaking community is up in arms over the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences’ recent decision to gut its archive and library, with some calling the cutbacks “a huge step ...

PARIS (Hollywood Reporter) - Where do you go if you want to watch rare archive films such as a 1916 document about life on a German submarine or John Ford's 53-minute Western "Bucking Broadway" from ...

James Mason as Humbert Humbert in director Stanley Kubrick's 1962 film "Lolita." (Courtesy Harvard Film Archive) “How did they ever make a movie of ‘Lolita’?” the advertisements asked. It was 1962, ...

A still from director Edward Yang's 2000 film "Yi Yi." (Courtesy Harvard Film Archive) One of my favorite depictions of a child in all of cinema is an 8-year-old named Yang Yang in writer-director ...

Film preservation is fundamental to keeping the medium alive. With how rapidly filmmaking technology advances, older work can get lost because it never saw a wide release, had few copies available, or ...

Film archivists say they have gotten a hold of part of a 1923 silent movie called "The White Shadow." It's considered to be the first feature film Alfred Hitchcock ever worked on. An investigator with ...

Vintage film restoration company Film Masters has partnered with the American Genere Film Archive for theatrical distribution of its catalog of restored classics. AGFA, a non-profit genre film archive ...

The distributor’s owners, Amy Heller and Dennis Doros, made the unusual choice to give it away. Their successor is Maya Cade of the Black Film Archive. By Derrick Bryson Taylor Milestone Films is a ...

Today we are celebrating the 2018 UNESCO World Day for Audiovisual Heritage by trying to answer this question: Why would archives invest in new copies of films that have already been copied to a ...