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Dave Kehr @davekehr.bsky.social · Mar 27

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Dave Kehr @davekehr.bsky.social · Mar 17

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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Dave Kehr @davekehr.bsky.social · Feb 7

Playing daily at MoMA through Feb. 12. The most formally accomplished film you are likely to see this year.

The New Yorker @newyorker.com · Feb 6

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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David Hudson @dwhdaily.bsky.social · Feb 6

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...

A still from Rob Tregenza’s The Fishing Place (2024)

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Dave Kehr @davekehr.bsky.social · Feb 6

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MoMA Presents: Rob Tregenza’s The Fishing Place | MoMA

Film series. Through Feb 12. In this formally inventive historical drama, acclaimed American filmmaker Rob Tregenza explores the moral complexities of World War II and the permutations of history and ...

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Dave Kehr @davekehr.bsky.social · Feb 6

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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Francisco Valente @francisvalente.bsky.social · Jan 28

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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Dave Kehr @davekehr.bsky.social · Jan 28

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Shoulder Arms. 1918. Written and directed by Charles Chaplin The Bond. 1918. Written and directed by Charles Chaplin | MoMA

Shoulder Arms. 1918. USA. Written and directed by Charles Chaplin. With Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Sydney Chaplin. Silent. 46 min. The Bond. 1918. USA. Written and directed by Charles Chaplin. With Chap...

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Dave Kehr @davekehr.bsky.social · Jan 28

Ben Kenigsberg on MoMAFilm's restoration-in-progess of Chaplin's WWI comedy SHOULDER ARMS. Screens Thursday at 7 pm.
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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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Westerns & the Old West @davidlambertart.bsky.social · Jan 27

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:

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Dave Kehr @davekehr.bsky.social · Jan 27

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Shoulder Arms. 1918. Written and directed by Charles Chaplin The Bond. 1918. Written and directed by Charles Chaplin | MoMA

Shoulder Arms. 1918. USA. Written and directed by Charles Chaplin. With Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Sydney Chaplin. Silent. 46 min. The Bond. 1918. USA. Written and directed by Charles Chaplin. With Chap...

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Dave Kehr @davekehr.bsky.social · Jan 27

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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Dave Kehr @davekehr.bsky.social · Jan 27

Still a good movie, though! I'm glad people are making the effort to show 20th century cinema in no matter what form.

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Dave Kehr @davekehr.bsky.social · Jan 27

Was it letterboxed? The real shortcoming of 16mm is that practically everything was cropped to 1.33.

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Dave Kehr @davekehr.bsky.social · Jan 26

The sad, simple truth is that the studios don't care about revival screenings -- it's a microscopic part of their business -- and they seldom make theatrical grade material available. It's all about making files for streaming these days.

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Dave Kehr @davekehr.bsky.social · Jan 26

That's another debate! It's probably a battered survivor of the 1970s boom in non-theatrical distribution (which is what fueled my college film society). You might be better off with a blu-ray.

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Dave Kehr @davekehr.bsky.social · Jan 26

Not weird at all, Norm. It's very rare, if not unheard of, for a studio to pay for a new 35mm print these days. Most of them won't even make DCPs.

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Dave Kehr @davekehr.bsky.social · Jan 23

We're screening a restoration (from the camera negative) of Fernandez's masterpiece MARIA CANDELARIA next week at MoMA.
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María Candelaria. 1943. Directed by Emilio Fernández | MoMA

María Candelaria. 1943. Mexico. Directed by Emilio Fernández. Screenplay by Fernández, Mauricio Magdaleno. With Dolores del Rio, Pedro Armendáriz, Alberto Galán. New York premiere. In Spanish; English...

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Westerns & the Old West @davidlambertart.bsky.social · Jan 23

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)

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Dave Kehr @davekehr.bsky.social · Jan 17

Last chance for TSAP's sleeper of the year, today at 4:30.

Dave Kehr @davekehr.bsky.social · Jan 13

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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Dave Kehr @davekehr.bsky.social · Jan 17

Interesting take here from Eric.

Eric Shmeric @ericdienstfrey.bsky.social · Jan 17

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

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Dave Kehr @davekehr.bsky.social · Jan 13

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.

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Dave Kehr @davekehr.bsky.social · Jan 13

Hoping they'll make some DCPs, and this isn't just a streaming proposition.

Shout! Studios @shoutstudios.bsky.social · Jan 13

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.”

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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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Dave Kehr @davekehr.bsky.social · Jan 13

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

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Dave Kehr @davekehr.bsky.social · Jan 11

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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