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? (more…)

On June 11th and 12th, the annual Colloquium of the German Association of Film Museums and State-Funded Cinemas was devoted to various aspects of film and censorship. 



