Welcome to the Archive, Part 2: Films Out of the Can Onto the Screen
Cinémathèque Francaise co-founder (and spiritual father of the Nouvelle Vague) Henri Langlois once quipped that Britain’s preservation-oriented National Film Archive’s acronym N.F.A. actually stood for “no film available”. Indeed, it has been commonly (mis)conceived that preservation and access are mutually exclusive. Yes, projection does eventually wear down celluloid prints. But if nobody watches these films, isn’t that analogous to the proverbial tree falling in the empty forest? Read full article
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Congratulations to Marco Arana. Today he will accept the International human rights award in Aachen.
