Dave Kehr
@davekehr.bsky.social
Longtime film critic -- Chicago Reader, Chicago Tribune, New York Times -- now a curator in the Department of Film of the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Opinions are my own.
The schedule is up for THE LADY AT 100, my affectionate variation on the Columbia Pictures retrospective that Ehsan Khoshbakht curated for the Locarno Film Festival last summer. 30 Columbia bangers April 16 through May 24.
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The Lady at 100: Columbia Classics from the Locarno Film Festival | MoMA
Film series. Apr 16–May 24, 2025. In celebration of Columbia Pictures’ centennial, MoMA and the Locarno Film Festival present a series tracing the evolution of Hollywood’s scrappiest major studio. Fro...
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March 17, 2025 at 4:13 PM
The schedule is up for THE LADY AT 100, my affectionate variation on the Columbia Pictures retrospective that Ehsan Khoshbakht curated for the Locarno Film Festival last summer. 30 Columbia bangers April 16 through May 24.
www.moma.org/calendar/fil...
www.moma.org/calendar/fil...
Playing daily at MoMA through Feb. 12. The most formally accomplished film you are likely to see this year.
Rob Tregenza’s new film, “The Fishing Place,” offers a clear-eyed look at the evils of the Nazi occupation during the Second World War and the danger of tyrannical fascism overwhelming democratic routine.
“The Fishing Place” Puts History Into the Present Tense
With a style as daring as his narrative sense, Rob Tregenza dramatizes the moral dilemmas of Norwegians under Nazi occupation.
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February 7, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Playing daily at MoMA through Feb. 12. The most formally accomplished film you are likely to see this year.
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Rob Tregenza has worked with Godard, Béla Tarr, Alex Cox … His new film, THE FISHING PLACE, sees its North American premiere tonight @ MoMA — www.criterion.com/current/post...
February 6, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Rob Tregenza has worked with Godard, Béla Tarr, Alex Cox … His new film, THE FISHING PLACE, sees its North American premiere tonight @ MoMA — www.criterion.com/current/post...
Manohla Dargis on ‘The Fishing Place,’ a new film by Rob Tregenza (TALKING TO STRANGERS). At MoMA through Feb. 12. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/m...
‘The Fishing Place’ Review: A Village Under Suspicion
Rob Tregenza’s latest film, set in a German-occupied Norwegian village, follows a housekeeper dispatched to spy on a priest.
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February 6, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Manohla Dargis on ‘The Fishing Place,’ a new film by Rob Tregenza (TALKING TO STRANGERS). At MoMA through Feb. 12. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/m...
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Prepared something special at MoMA with @davekehr.bsky.social. Q&As with Jerry Schatzberg this Friday (7 pm) for Puzzle of a Downfall Child & Scarecrow on February 8, 4 pm.
Jerry Schatzberg | MoMA
Film series. Jan 31–Feb 9, 2025. This comprehensive retrospective celebrates Jerry Schatzberg, the photographer-turned-filmmaker whose work captured the raw edges of American life in the 1970s and bey...
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January 28, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Prepared something special at MoMA with @davekehr.bsky.social. Q&As with Jerry Schatzberg this Friday (7 pm) for Puzzle of a Downfall Child & Scarecrow on February 8, 4 pm.
Ben Kenigsberg on MoMAFilm's restoration-in-progess of Chaplin's WWI comedy SHOULDER ARMS. Screens Thursday at 7 pm.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/m...
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A Charlie Chaplin Movie Like You’ve Never Seen It Before
The Museum of Modern Art has worked on a meticulous restoration of Chaplin’s 1918 film “Shoulder Arms,” screening on Thursday, that likely differs in every frame from what viewers have seen.
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January 28, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Ben Kenigsberg on MoMAFilm's restoration-in-progess of Chaplin's WWI comedy SHOULDER ARMS. Screens Thursday at 7 pm.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/m...
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/m...
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Whenever someone writing about Westerns uses some variation on the phrase, "the white hats vs the black hats," I stop reading. This has never been standard in the genre, even in the serials & B-Westerns.
If you said that shit in front of John Ford, he'd throw your ass out of his movie screening:
If you said that shit in front of John Ford, he'd throw your ass out of his movie screening:
January 27, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Whenever someone writing about Westerns uses some variation on the phrase, "the white hats vs the black hats," I stop reading. This has never been standard in the genre, even in the serials & B-Westerns.
If you said that shit in front of John Ford, he'd throw your ass out of his movie screening:
If you said that shit in front of John Ford, he'd throw your ass out of his movie screening:
Released at the height of the 1918 pandemic, Chaplin's SHOULDER ARMS still broke box office records. Here's the Strand boasting that "New Yorkers took their lives in their hands" to pack the theater "all week." New @MoMAFilm resto plays 7pm Thurs.
January 27, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Released at the height of the 1918 pandemic, Chaplin's SHOULDER ARMS still broke box office records. Here's the Strand boasting that "New Yorkers took their lives in their hands" to pack the theater "all week." New @MoMAFilm resto plays 7pm Thurs.
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On this day, it's important to remember that the Oscar statue was likely modeled after Mexican-Kickapoo filmmaker & actor Emilio Fernandez (aka, Gen. Mapache in The Wild Bunch)
January 23, 2025 at 8:26 PM
On this day, it's important to remember that the Oscar statue was likely modeled after Mexican-Kickapoo filmmaker & actor Emilio Fernandez (aka, Gen. Mapache in The Wild Bunch)
Last chance for TSAP's sleeper of the year, today at 4:30.
David Schwartz on a real sleeper in this year's @MoMAFilm preservation festival, the unclassifiable ROSAURA AT 10 O'CLOCK. Mario Soffici’s 1958 film begins as a folksy comedy and ends on the far side of noir. 6:30 Mon/4:30 Fri. www.screenslate.com/articles/ros...
Rosaura at 10 O’Clock
Released the same year as Vertigo (1958), and similarly driven by sexual obsession, psychological delusion, narrative game-playing, and dream logic, the great Argentine director Mario Soffici’s late-c...
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January 17, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Last chance for TSAP's sleeper of the year, today at 4:30.
Interesting take here from Eric.
I also recommend Experiment in Terror, an early Blake Edwards film noir that influenced Lynch stylistically. (You can trace a lot of Lynch's musical aesthetic and slapstick humor to Edwards). Not to mention the fact that the film takes places in a town called Twin Peaks. 3/x
January 17, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Interesting take here from Eric.
A Fox trade ad from 1929, looking back on their last full year of silent films: FOUR SONS and MOTHER MACREE by John Ford, STREET ANGEL and 7th HEAVEN by Frank Borzage, RED DANCE and IN OLD ARIZONA by Raoul Walsh, AIR CIRCUS and FAZIL by Howard Hawks, and FOUR DEVILS by F.W. Murnau. Not too shoddy.
January 13, 2025 at 9:50 PM
A Fox trade ad from 1929, looking back on their last full year of silent films: FOUR SONS and MOTHER MACREE by John Ford, STREET ANGEL and 7th HEAVEN by Frank Borzage, RED DANCE and IN OLD ARIZONA by Raoul Walsh, AIR CIRCUS and FAZIL by Howard Hawks, and FOUR DEVILS by F.W. Murnau. Not too shoddy.
Hoping they'll make some DCPs, and this isn't just a streaming proposition.
We're so excited to share that we've acquired the Golden Princess library!
Crown jewels include Woo’s action masterpieces “Hard Boiled,” “The Killer,” the complete “Better Tomorrow” trilogy, “Bullet in the Head,” and “Once a Thief.”
variety.com/2025/film/as... via @variety.bsky.social
Crown jewels include Woo’s action masterpieces “Hard Boiled,” “The Killer,” the complete “Better Tomorrow” trilogy, “Bullet in the Head,” and “Once a Thief.”
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John Woo, Chow Yun-fat Classics Among 156-Film Golden Princess Library Acquired by Shout! Studios (EXCLUSIVE)
Shout! Studios acquires 156 Hong Kong action classics from Golden Princess, including John Woo, Chow Yun-Fat hits like 'Hard Boiled' and 'The Killer.'
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January 13, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Hoping they'll make some DCPs, and this isn't just a streaming proposition.
David Schwartz on a real sleeper in this year's @MoMAFilm preservation festival, the unclassifiable ROSAURA AT 10 O'CLOCK. Mario Soffici’s 1958 film begins as a folksy comedy and ends on the far side of noir. 6:30 Mon/4:30 Fri. www.screenslate.com/articles/ros...
Rosaura at 10 O’Clock
Released the same year as Vertigo (1958), and similarly driven by sexual obsession, psychological delusion, narrative game-playing, and dream logic, the great Argentine director Mario Soffici’s late-c...
www.screenslate.com
January 13, 2025 at 4:33 PM
David Schwartz on a real sleeper in this year's @MoMAFilm preservation festival, the unclassifiable ROSAURA AT 10 O'CLOCK. Mario Soffici’s 1958 film begins as a folksy comedy and ends on the far side of noir. 6:30 Mon/4:30 Fri. www.screenslate.com/articles/ros...
Thanks to Katarina Docalovich for this fine account of Alberto Cavalcanti's rare Brazilian comedy A REAL WOMAN, which screens today and Thurs., Jan 16 in TSAP, @MoMAFilm's annual preservation festival.
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January 11, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Thanks to Katarina Docalovich for this fine account of Alberto Cavalcanti's rare Brazilian comedy A REAL WOMAN, which screens today and Thurs., Jan 16 in TSAP, @MoMAFilm's annual preservation festival.
www.screenslate.com/articles/rea...
www.screenslate.com/articles/rea...
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And here’s a (roughly) chronological walk through the program ! www.criterion.com/current/post...
January 9, 2025 at 4:51 PM
And here’s a (roughly) chronological walk through the program ! www.criterion.com/current/post...
TO SAVE AND PROJECT, MoMA's annual festival of preserved films, starts tonight and continues through Jan. 30. www.moma.org/calendar/fil...
January 9, 2025 at 4:20 PM
TO SAVE AND PROJECT, MoMA's annual festival of preserved films, starts tonight and continues through Jan. 30. www.moma.org/calendar/fil...
A nice BTS still from 7th HEAVEN, with director Frank Borzage horsing around with character actor Albert Gran. An upgraded restoration opens MoMA's preservation festival, TO SAVE AND PROJECT, Thurs. Jan. 9. www.moma.org/calendar/fil...
January 3, 2025 at 5:00 PM
A nice BTS still from 7th HEAVEN, with director Frank Borzage horsing around with character actor Albert Gran. An upgraded restoration opens MoMA's preservation festival, TO SAVE AND PROJECT, Thurs. Jan. 9. www.moma.org/calendar/fil...
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New NitrateVille Radio episode! Dave Kehr on MoMA's To Save and Project (including Raskolnikow from 1923), Thomas Christensen on the Copenhagen Silent Film Festival, and the authors of Moguls: The Lives and Times of Hollywood Pioneers Nicholas and Joseph Schenck. www.nitrateville.com/viewtopic.ph...
January 2, 2025 at 3:48 PM
New NitrateVille Radio episode! Dave Kehr on MoMA's To Save and Project (including Raskolnikow from 1923), Thomas Christensen on the Copenhagen Silent Film Festival, and the authors of Moguls: The Lives and Times of Hollywood Pioneers Nicholas and Joseph Schenck. www.nitrateville.com/viewtopic.ph...
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Next week brings us To Save and Project: The 21st MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation, programmed this year by the mighty @davekehr.bsky.social. Opening night Jan. 9 is a new restoration of 7TH HEAVEN. I wrote about this Frank Borzage masterpiece in 2018: silentfilm.org/seventh-heav...
January 1, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Next week brings us To Save and Project: The 21st MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation, programmed this year by the mighty @davekehr.bsky.social. Opening night Jan. 9 is a new restoration of 7TH HEAVEN. I wrote about this Frank Borzage masterpiece in 2018: silentfilm.org/seventh-heav...
A stone cold masterpiece!
☠️Koko’s Earth Control☠️
🖤In celebration of Koko entering the National Film Registry, here is our restored version of the cartoon with new soundtrack composed by Ben Model!🖤
youtu.be/3urxyp4wEgw?... #FleischerStudios
🖤In celebration of Koko entering the National Film Registry, here is our restored version of the cartoon with new soundtrack composed by Ben Model!🖤
youtu.be/3urxyp4wEgw?... #FleischerStudios
Koko's Earth Control | 1928 | 2023 Restoration | Inkwell Imps | Koko the Clown | Fleischer Studios
YouTube video by Fleischer Cartoons!
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December 19, 2024 at 4:09 PM
A stone cold masterpiece!
Here's a statement from the Executive Committe of FIAF (the International Federation of Film Archives) concerning the recent dismissal of eight senior employees from the Academy Film Archive. Spoiler alert: they are not in favor of it.
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www.fiafnet.org/pages/Commun...
International Federation of Film Archives
The International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) brings together institutions dedicated to rescuing of films both as art and as historical documents
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December 17, 2024 at 3:10 PM
Here's a statement from the Executive Committe of FIAF (the International Federation of Film Archives) concerning the recent dismissal of eight senior employees from the Academy Film Archive. Spoiler alert: they are not in favor of it.
www.fiafnet.org/pages/Commun...
www.fiafnet.org/pages/Commun...
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We're thrilled to be premiering our restoration of Pittsburgh filmmaker Billy Jackson's short, WE ARE UNIVERSAL, at To Save and Project next year!
A little clip from the film, which features Black artists and thinkers like late greats Nikki Giovanni and Quincy Jones:
A little clip from the film, which features Black artists and thinkers like late greats Nikki Giovanni and Quincy Jones:
December 12, 2024 at 6:12 PM
We're thrilled to be premiering our restoration of Pittsburgh filmmaker Billy Jackson's short, WE ARE UNIVERSAL, at To Save and Project next year!
A little clip from the film, which features Black artists and thinkers like late greats Nikki Giovanni and Quincy Jones:
A little clip from the film, which features Black artists and thinkers like late greats Nikki Giovanni and Quincy Jones: