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Giulia Saccogna @giuliasfilms.bsky.social · 3d

Tomorrow! Thu 9 Oct 15:20 NFT1 on day 2 of #LFF two unmissable brand new restorations from Colombia and Iran, £10 tickets still available! @lffstubs.bsky.social whatson.bfi.org.uk/lff/Online/d...

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Giulia Saccogna @giuliasfilms.bsky.social · 16d

Time to re-evaluate FORBIDDEN GAMES (1952), René Clément's indelible, deeply moving and darkly comic Oscar® winner. UK Premiere of the 4K restoration is coming to #BFI this Sat 27th at 15:35, courtesy of @studiocanal.co.uk whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/defau...

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Giulia Saccogna @giuliasfilms.bsky.social · 17d

Proud to present SAFAR (1972), Beyzaie's own favourite film, for its UK Premiere of the 4K restoration on Thu 9 Oct #LFF courtesy of @mk2-films.bsky.social whatson.bfi.org.uk/lff/Online/d...

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Robin Baker @robinalexbaker.bsky.social · 19d

Erich von Stroheim was born 140 years ago today, which is more than sufficient excuse to post this publicity still of him taken to promote FOOLISH WIVES (1922).

It's a shame that more actor/directors don't don silk shirt, knickerbockers, girdle, stockings and suspenders for the camera.

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Giulia Saccogna @giuliasfilms.bsky.social · Sep 10

Two gems in one go, LA PAGA and SAFAR, on Thu 9 Oct at #LFF whatson.bfi.org.uk/lff/Online/d...

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Giulia Saccogna @giuliasfilms.bsky.social · Aug 12

Tonight! London Premiere at BFI Southbank NFT1 18:30 + intro @cineredis.bsky.social @milestonefilms.bsky.social whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/defau...

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Giulia Saccogna @giuliasfilms.bsky.social · Aug 7

Coming to BFI Southbank for its London Premiere on Tue 12 Aug, NFT1 + intro! Tickets: whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/defau...
@milestonefilms.bsky.social @cineredis.bsky.social

Milestone Film & Video @milestonefilms.bsky.social · Apr 22

"The Criterion Collection, UCLA Film and Television Archive, and Milestone Films underwent an extensive frame-by-frame transformation of sound, image, and clearances to present “Killer of Sheep” as it was intended to be seen." blackfilmarchive.substack.com/p/how-do-you...

How Do You Resurrect a Black Cinematic Monument? On Restoring “Killer of Sheep”

When Black Film Archive launched in August 2021, one of my most asked questions was “well… How do I watch “Killer of Sheep?” – the 1978 masterpiece of every day Black poetry from Charles Burnett.

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Giulia Saccogna @giuliasfilms.bsky.social · Jul 31

Also, it will screen again at BFI on the 6th and 9th Sept as part of the upcoming Anna May Wong season: whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/defau...

Buy cinema tickets for Pavement Butterfly | BFI Southbank

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Giulia Saccogna @giuliasfilms.bsky.social · Jul 27

This restoration already played at BFI Southbank in April as part of the Silent monthly strand!

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Tony Paley @tpaleyfilm.bsky.social · Jul 26

#bestfilminlondontoday Jul 26 at capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com guide to London films. 'had a lasting impact on political filmmaking' @davekehr.bsky.social ... Pasolini's gritty ACCATTONE (1961) in 'Censored to Restored' season at BFI Southbank capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2025/07/capi...

Capital Celluloid 2025 — Day 205: Sat Jul 26

Accattone (Pasolini, 1961): BFI Southbank, NFT2, 3.10pm This is part of the 'Censored to Restored' season and also screens on July 9th . Ch...

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Giulia Saccogna @giuliasfilms.bsky.social · Jul 26

Tickets:
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From Censored to Restored | BFI Southbank

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Giulia Saccogna @giuliasfilms.bsky.social · Jul 26

5. Sambizanga - A radical film of tactile beauty on the chorus of the oppressed against the injustice of the oppressor. Restored by @thefilmfoundation.bsky.social's World Cinema Project and Cineteca di Bologna
Screening: 30 Jul

Link in bio for tickets

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Giulia Saccogna @giuliasfilms.bsky.social · Jul 26

4. A Woman Alone - Agnieszka Holland’s last film made in Poland before she was forced into exile, on the struggles of a single mother on the margins of society. Restored by DI Factory
Screening: 29 Jul

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Giulia Saccogna @giuliasfilms.bsky.social · Jul 26

3. The Long Farewell - A touching portrayal of the complexities of motherhood, it was condemned by the authorities for its experimentation and for being a 'depraved bourgeois film’. Restored by @studiocanal.com and @criterion.bsky.social
Screening: 26 Jul

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Giulia Saccogna @giuliasfilms.bsky.social · Jul 26

2. The Ear - A highly-charged satire of surveillance in a totalitarian system, banned for 20 years in Czechoslovakia. Restored by Karlovy Vary Int Film Fesival and @narodniarchiv.bsky.social in 2022
Screening: 26 Jul

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Giulia Saccogna @giuliasfilms.bsky.social · Jul 26

Last week of 'From Censored to Restored' at BFI! Here are the films you can still watch before it ends:

1. Stars in Broad Daylight - A biting satire on the dissolution of a Syrian family, an allegory on the Assad dictatorship beautifully restored by @thefilmfoundation.bsky.social
Screening: 31 Jul

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Tony Paley @tpaleyfilm.bsky.social · Jul 2

#bestfilminlondontoday Jul 2 at capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com guide to London films. Giulia Saccogna provides extended intro to 'Censored and Restored' season at BFI + silent film classic MY GRANDMOTHER + Stephen Horne on piano capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2025/06/capi...

Capital Celluloid 2025 — Day 182: Wed Jul 2

My Grandmother (Mikaberidze, 1929): BFI Southbank, NFT2, 6.10pm This screening is part of the Censored to Restored season ( details here ) a...

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Giulia Saccogna @giuliasfilms.bsky.social · Jul 1

Tomorrow! Screening of this restored silent Georgian gem + extended season intro at BFI with piano by the wonder that is Stephen Horne @silentlondon.bsky.social @silentfilmcalendar.bsky.social @klassiki.bsky.social whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/defau...

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Maggie Hennefeld @hennefem.bsky.social · Jun 5

Bologna Ritrovato 2025 program goes lives at noon on June 10th!!! Bookings open for the 1st half of the fest on June 11 and on JUne 16 for Part 2. 🎞️🎶🥂 festival.ilcinemaritrovato.it/en/prenotazi...

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Silent London @silentlondon.bsky.social · Jun 3

The coolest video you will watch today @nastysilents.bsky.social vimeo.com/1089709353

Nasty Women - Bande-annonce

Conçue par Maggie Hennefeld, une programmation de films muets rares, joyeux melting-pot de manifestations féministes, de slapsticks archaïques…

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Cinema Rediscovered @cineredis.bsky.social · May 28

The full programme for #CinemaRediscovered 2025 festival has arrived!

An 80+ event line-up, w/ 21 UK premieres of newly-restored gems, returns to venues in and around Bristol, Wed 23 - Sun 27 July.

Get your Early Bird pass before Fri 30th May with individual tickets live Tue 3 June - link in bio.

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Bertha DocHouse @berthadochouse.bsky.social · May 18

“Magnificent… an intimate and poignant yet wholly unsentimental story about a man who’s fighting to defend his own freedom.” - Cineuropa

Join us for a screening of Bogancloch on 29 May + Q&A with director Ben Rivers, hosted by stand-up comedian and writer Stewart Lee. bit.ly/BGCbdh

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Open City Documentary Festival @opencitydocs.bsky.social · Apr 26

Moving Statics is the first UK survey of Arthur & Corinne Cantrill since the 1980s. Using new visual languages, their work stages “journeys” into unfamiliar terrain, investigating the feedback between environment & art, landform & 16mm film-form, shape & light.

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Moving Statics: the films of Arthur and Corinne Cantrill - Open City Documentary Festival

Over a period of fifty years, Australian filmmaking couple Arthur (1938-) and Corinne Cantrill (1928-2025) sought to discover new visual languages and new ways of accessing and rendering landscape thr...

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Giulia Saccogna @giuliasfilms.bsky.social · Apr 15

Tonight! UK Premiere of 4K Restoration of The Wife's Confession by Masumura, a few tickets left, don't miss! As @jessicakiang.bsky.social noted, think Anatomy of a Fall in 60s Japan
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Giulia Saccogna @giuliasfilms.bsky.social · Jan 22

And again on Tue 28 at BFI as part of Restored!
@cineredis.bsky.social @milestonefilms.bsky.social
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