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The Film Foundation is a nonprofit organziation established in 1990 by Martin Scorsese, dedicated to protecting and preserving motion picture history.
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Three restorations of films from director @theleegrant kick off at @afisilvertheatre this weekend as part of a centennial tribute spotlighting her work on every side of the camera.

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November 21, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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Lizzie Borden's BORN IN FLAMES (1983) screens for free thanks to the UCLA Film & Television Archive on Sunday, November 23rd!

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Born in Flames / Stranger Inside | Hammer Museum
Screening of Lizzie Borden's Born in Flames (1983) and Cheryl Dunye's Stranger Inside (2001), with a Q&A with Lizzie Borden.
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November 21, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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3 TFF-Supported restorations will screen at this year's NYFF!

- Flora Gomes’s MORTU NEGA (1988)

- Ossie Davis's BLACK GIRL (1972)

- Satyajit Ray’s DAYS AND NIGHTS IN THE FOREST (1970)

Learn more about these films & the entire Revivals line-up at the link below:

www.filmlinc.org/nyff2025/dai...
63rd New York Film Festival Revivals Announced
Revivals showcases 12 films that have been acclaimed for their innovation and significance or that were underappreciated in their time.
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August 19, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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The stunning new restoration of THE FALL OF OTRAR opens for a week-long run at Film at Lincoln Center today!

Don't miss this incredible opportunity to see an epic movie—co-written by the great Aleksei German—on a BIG screen!

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The Fall of Otrar
One of the most astute historical films ever made, Ardak Amirkulov’s staggering epic (co-written by Aleksei German) concerns the intrigues and turmoil preceding Genghis Khan’s systematic destruction o...
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August 1, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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the very great “annihilation of fish” is out on dvd/blu-ray today from @milestonefilms.bsky.social / @kinolorber.com with support from @thefilmfoundation.bsky.social and @uclaftvarchive.bsky.social.

a special commentary with me and director charles burnett is on the disc. ❤️
June 18, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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Last week of 'From Censored to Restored' at BFI! Here are the films you can still watch before it ends:

1. Stars in Broad Daylight - A biting satire on the dissolution of a Syrian family, an allegory on the Assad dictatorship beautifully restored by @thefilmfoundation.bsky.social
Screening: 31 Jul
July 26, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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5. Sambizanga - A radical film of tactile beauty on the chorus of the oppressed against the injustice of the oppressor. Restored by @thefilmfoundation.bsky.social's World Cinema Project and Cineteca di Bologna
Screening: 30 Jul

Link in bio for tickets
July 26, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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Our July Newsletter is coming out in mere hours!

Sign up at the link below to make sure you get it!

www.film-foundation.org/newsletter

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July 15, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Could TELL ME A RIDDLE be a #mothersday classic? Stream Lee Grant’s newly restored directing debut this weekend cause it just might be.

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May 9, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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Australia's Cinema Reborn festival kicks off today in Sydney! There are tons of great films including TFF projects Sergei Parajanov's SHADOWS OF FORGOTTEN ANCESTORS (1965), Henry King's STELLA DALLAS (1925), & Ardak Amirkulov’s THE FALL OF OTRAR (1991)

Full line-up✨ cinemareborn.com.au/2025-Program
2025 Program — Cinema Reborn
GALA SCREENINGHOLIDAYGEORGE CUKOR, 1938 CLOSING NIGHTTHE FALL OF OTRARARDAK AMIRKULOV, 1992 SATURDAY CENTREPIECE McCABE & MRS....
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April 30, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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🎬 @KinoLorber.com's Law and Order (1932) Blu-ray releases June 17! 🏇

Experience a fresh 4K restoration by Universal and @thefilmfoundation.bsky.social!

Features include commentaries and the preserved "Without Honor." 🏜

A collectors dream! 💿

#PhysicalMedia #FilmSky

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April 14, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Friday, Apr. 11, 7:30 p.m.
🎨 Back From the Ink: Restored Animated Shorts

The result of a collaboration between The Seth MacFarlane Foundation, UCLA, @thefilmfoundation.bsky.social & Paramount Pictures Archives, these 12 restorations showcase the work of the Fleischers & more. Free! ucla.in/42mMg7A
April 7, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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Don't miss our new restoration of William Wyler's epic BEN-HUR (1959) !!!
tcmtv.bsky.social Turner Classic Movies @tcmtv.bsky.social · Apr 3
It’s here!

The full schedule for the 2025 #TCMFF is now live!

It’s not too late to grab your festival pass, but supplies are limited!

Get yours today: tcm.com/festival
April 3, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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***ANNOUNCEMENT***

Coming on June 17th on Blu-ray from @milestonefilms.bsky.social via @kinolorber.com distribution: #TheAnnihilationOfFish (1999)!

New restoration! Winner of an Honorary Academy Award® for lifetime achievement, Charles Burnett remains one of our country’s
The Annihilation of Fish
April 1, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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Our restoration of ALMA'S RAINBOW (Ayoka Chenzira, 1994) screens tonight at MoMA! Don't miss this vivid coming-of-age comedy-drama about three Black women living in Brooklyn.

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Alma's Rainbow. 1994. Written and directed by Ayoka Chenzira | MoMA
Alma's Rainbow. 1994. USA. Written and directed by Ayoka Chenzira. With Kim Weston-Moran, Victoria Gabrielle Platt, Mizan Kirby. DCP courtesy Kino Lorber. 85 min. Ayoka Chenzira’s debut feature film i...
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March 27, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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Over the past couple of months, I heard CSO perform Bartók's only opera, BLUEBEARD'S CASTLE, and saw Michael Powell's 1963 film of the same, both of which sent me into a mild recent obsession with it. Recommended just in case you would like your Bartók celebration to have a murderous, operatic vibe.
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today on Bartók's birthday I have already dialed up a couple of Hungarian mixcloud playlists with Bartók stuff and right now in the space before driving my son to school I am jamming "Concerto for Orchestra" (Reiner & CSO). You too can live this triumphant life. Happy birthday Bela Bartók!
March 25, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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A 35mm print (!) of our restoration of Rene Clair's I MARRIED A WITCH screens multiple times this week at Film Forum in their incredible Rene Clair series!

Hang out with Veronica Lake, Fredric March, and Robert Benchley on March 26th, 28th, and 29th:

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Film Forum · I MARRIED A WITCH
I MARRIED A WITCH Part of RENÉ CLAIR, March 21 – April 3
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March 25, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Kathleen Collins’s LOSING GROUND, a patient exploration of the relationship between the personal and the professional, is available today in a two-disc special edition Blu-ray edition from @milestonefilms.bsky.social and @kinolorber.com. shorturl.at/ljulJ
March 18, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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Film Forum's run of EL has been extended until March 27th ‼️

Go see Bunuel's twisted tale of obsession on the big screen!

filmforum.org/film/el

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March 18, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Read J. Hoberman's new NY Times piece on Luis Buñuel’s 1953 "blasphemous black comedy," EL and then head over to Film Forum (3/14-3/20) to see our new 4K restoration of the film!

- www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/m...

- filmforum.org/film/el

Don't miss your chance to see this in a theater!
With ‘Él,’ Buñuel Turns His Gaze to Male Pathology
Luis Buñuel’s Mexican melodrama about a jealous husband who makes his young wife’s life a living hell opens at Film Forum.
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March 13, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Ophuls' incredible film, THE MEMORY OF JUSTICE (1976), screens this weekend @britishacademy.bsky.social ‼️ Don't miss your chance to see this vital film.

www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/the-a...

And be sure to read Catherine Ellsberg's new piece on the film, linked to below!
February 27, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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A fabulous interview of Charles Burnett on MUBI by Carlos Valladares! mubi.com/en/notebook/...
My Responsibility: Charles Burnett on “The Annihilation of Fish”
A quarter of a century later, a romantic masterpiece resurfaces.
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February 22, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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"It took too long for the world to be able to see this film’s value, but what a gift now that it finally has." Jessica Scott, MOVIE JAWN Feb 21, 2025
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THE ANNIHILATION OF FISH is a long-awaited gift — Moviejawn
by Jessica Scott, Staff Writer The Annihilation of Fish is a gem of a movie that shows us who we are as humans: strange, funny, sad, and capable of unconditional love if we open ourselves up to it.
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February 22, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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LA! Don't miss your chance to see this gem of a movie on the big screen!

+Charles Burnett will be in person ♥️♥️♥️
February 22, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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Thank you to L.A. Times writer Mark Olsen for highlighting Charles Burnett’s “The Annihilation of Fish” — restored by UCLA and @thefilmfoundation.bsky.social in collab w/ @milestonefilms.bsky.social — and our “Documenting Michelle Parkerson” series this weekend! www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
Charles Burnett on his lost 'Fish,' plus the week's best films in L.A.
Also this week: the 40th anniversary of Paul Schrader's 'Mishima,' a 4K restoration of Lina Wertmüller's 'Swept Away' and 'Looking for Mr. Goodbar' in 35mm.
www.latimes.com
February 21, 2025 at 8:08 PM