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Milestone Film & Video @milestonefilms.bsky.social · 10d

Come and read Milestone's new October Newsletter! More on Queen Kelly (the premiere at NYFF!), the astonishing Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research, and a free restored LGBTQ+ film that you will love to watch this month! And more!
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Milestone Film & Video @milestonefilms.bsky.social · 16d

The Man without a World is still one of our favorite films. Mudam survey explores 50 years of the fabulous Eleanor Antin's fluid identity and performance art. artdaily.com/news/185795/...

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Milestone Film & Video @milestonefilms.bsky.social · 16d

[Queen Kelly is] “a spectacular, fanatically ornamental, yet harrowing masterwork of erotic ecstasies and horrors.” - Richard Brody, New Yorker Magazine www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

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Milestone Film & Video @milestonefilms.bsky.social · 18d

"Nadia’s a huge fan of Charles Burnett’s Killer of Sheep, and that definitely shaped how we approached our character, Charles—that raw, intimate feel with gentle coverage. We even shot a scene with a girl in a dog mask as a direct homage to Burnett’s film." www.motionpictures.org/2025/09/cage...

Caged Dynamics: How DP Ula Pontikos Frames Willem Dafoe & Corey Hawkins in "The Man in My Basement"

DP Ula Pontikos reveals how she used split diopters, shifting light, and careful framing to visualize Hulu's psychological thriller.

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Disc-Connected: Your trusted news source in physical media @disc-connected.bsky.social · 24d

***ANNOUNCEMENT***

Coming on November 18th on Blu-ray in the US from @milestonefilms.bsky.social via @kinolorber.com distribution: #GrassAndChang (1925/1927)!

In 1924, filmmakers Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack (King Kong) linked up with journalist/part- time spy Marguerite Harrison to

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Milestone Film & Video @milestonefilms.bsky.social · Sep 10

La Cinémathèque française celebrates Shirley Clarke with a fabulous series that starts today! www.cinematheque.fr/cycle/shirle...

Rétrospective Shirley Clarke - La Cinémathèque française

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Milestone Film & Video @milestonefilms.bsky.social · Sep 10

La Cinémathèque française celebrates Shirley Clarke with a fabulous series that starts today! www.cinematheque.fr/cycle/shirle...

Rétrospective Shirley Clarke - La Cinémathèque française

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Milestone Film & Video @milestonefilms.bsky.social · Sep 9

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Milestone Film & Video @milestonefilms.bsky.social · Sep 9

Milestone's September 2025 Newsletter: Queen Kelly's New York Film Fest's royal appearance, read the new QK press kit, and a new book we love, Rasheedah Philip's "Dismantling the Master's Clock" mailchi.mp/milestonefil...

September: 👑 Queen Kelly in Venice, NYC & beyond!

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Milestone Film & Video @milestonefilms.bsky.social · Sep 5

Milestone's premiere of Queen Kelly in Venice! 1400 attendees, an incredible orchestra playing Eli Denson's score, and at least a couple of celebrities attending!

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Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Colln, UGA Libraries @brownmediaarchives.bsky.social · Sep 2

All you fans of ATHENS, GA: INSIDE/OUT! We're restoring this classic docty for its 40th anniversary! A new print & new extras for the perfect docty about Athens, its beloved characters, and a few bands you may have heard of. Join in the preservation efforts! Donate here: give.uga.edu/funders/insi...

Restore and Relive an Athens Treasure

Celebrate 40 years of Athens, GA: Inside/Out — give today to help preserve the original film for future generations.

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Milestone Film & Video @milestonefilms.bsky.social · Aug 30

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Venice 2025: A Royal Pre-Opening - The Film Verdict

The new reconstruction of ‘Queen Kelly’ was an appetizer for things to come at Venice 2025, the 82nd edition of the festival.

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Milestone Film & Video @milestonefilms.bsky.social · Aug 29

Chris Vognar in the Boston Globe

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But the highlight of my festival experience so far was actually a pre-festival event. On Tuesday night, the Sala Darsena theater was packed for the world premiere of the restored “Queen Kelly”

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filmlinc.bsky.social @filmlinc.bsky.social · Aug 26

Feast your eyes on the lovely new poster for Erich von Stroheim's QUEEN KELLY (1929), an #NYFF63 Revivals selection that will have its new 4K restoration make its North American Premiere in this year's festival.

Learn more at filmlinc.org/nyff

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Milestone Film & Video @milestonefilms.bsky.social · Aug 26

The Queen ascends her throne tonight at La Biennale in Venice! The beautiful new poster is by Lauren Caddick. The new orchestral score is by Eli Denson. Queen Kelly is dedicated to the memory of Donald Krim, who started Dennis on his film journey 40 years ago.

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Milestone Film & Video @milestonefilms.bsky.social · Aug 15

One of the most joyful films ever made! Coming this Monday night, August 18 at 7:00pm to the IFC Center in New York! George T. Nierenberg showing his personal 35mm print with a Q&A to follow! www.ifccenter.com/films/say-am...

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Milestone Film & Video @milestonefilms.bsky.social · Aug 15

We have booked the conference and hotel room. Can't wait for December 3-6, AMIA in Baltimore!

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Milestone Film & Video @milestonefilms.bsky.social · Aug 14

One of the most joyful films ever made! Coming this Monday night, August 18 at 7:00pm to the IFC Center in New York! George T. Nierenberg showing his personal 35mm print with a Q&A to follow! www.ifccenter.com/films/say-am...

IFC Center - Say Amen, Somebody

Screening on 35mm! Monday, August 18 at 7:00: Q&A with director George Nierenberg after the show One of the most acclaimed music documentaries of all time, Say Amen, Somebody is George Nierenberg’s ma...

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Milestone Film & Video @milestonefilms.bsky.social · Aug 14

Just announced! Queen Kelly will arrive on American shores at the New York Film Festival! Long Live the Queen! www.filmlinc.org/nyff/daily/6...

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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Milestone Film & Video @milestonefilms.bsky.social · Aug 11

And the distributor is even madder! Thank you, Pamela Hutchinson for a great article on the Queen! www.theguardian.com/film/2025/au...

‘Our director is a madman’: a century on, Gloria Swanson’s disastrous film Queen Kelly is finished

The Hollywood icon played a convent girl falling for a prince in this bizarre film directed by Erich von Stroheim. Decades after it was abandoned, Queen Kelly will now be shown at the Venice film fest...

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Pamela Hutchinson @pamhutch.bsky.social · Aug 11

I wrote a brief note about QUEEN KELLY, which will play Venice FF this year in a brilliant new “reimagining” from @milestonefilms.bsky.social

The Guardian @theguardian.com · Aug 11

‘Our director is a madman’: a century on, Gloria Swanson’s disastrous film Queen Kelly is finished

The Hollywood icon played a convent girl falling for a prince in this bizarre film directed by Erich von Stroheim. Decades after it was abandoned, Queen Kelly will now be shown at the Venice film festival

www.theguardian.com

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Milestone Film & Video @milestonefilms.bsky.social · Aug 5

Enjoy Milestone's August Newsletter with articles on Queen Kelly, Maya Cade's great series at MoMA, Ross Lipman's new book, The Archival Impermanence Project, and more on the Made in New Jersey Blu-ray! mailchi.mp/milestonefil...

August 2025: Milestone in Venice! 🇮🇹

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Milestone Film & Video @milestonefilms.bsky.social · Aug 4

Those angels of film rediscovery and restoration, Milestone Film & Video, illuminate a fascinating chapter of early American film history with their new two-disc Blu-ray set, Made in New Jersey: Films from Fort Lee, America’s First Film Town . artsfuse.org/314806/film-...

Film Review: "Made in New Jersey" -- A Fabulous Trip in the Cinematic Way-Back Machine - The Arts Fuse

This journey in the way-back machine contains many delights, some staged and some as part of the photographic record of America from 100-plus years ago.

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IFC Center @ifccenter.bsky.social · Aug 1

ONE NIGHT ONLY! ✨A story of love, loss, and ultimately, regeneration, Hirokazu Kore-eda’s remarkable debut MABOROSI screens on 35mm on Mon, Aug 4 with an intro by
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IFC Center - Maborosi

Screening on 35mm! Monday, August 4 at 7:00: Introduction by Dennis Doros and Amy Heller Hirokazu Kore-eda’s first feature film MABOROSI is a story of love, loss, and ultimately, regeneration. Haunted...

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Milestone Film & Video @milestonefilms.bsky.social · Jul 23

Sunset Boulevard coming to theaters on August 3 and 4. Queen Kelly coming this fall! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQWq...

Sunset Boulevard (1950) Official Trailer | 75th Anniversary | Paramount Movies

YouTube video by Paramount Movies

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